Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Snowy Leap Day

It feels VERY strange to say this is our one of very few super snowy mornings of 2012. By this time, we are usually sick and tired of seeing snow everywhere we go. Not this year! We have been waiting for snow to cover our hills and sled slopes to try out our new sleds for much longer than we ever expected. So, to see this when we woke up this morning was a happy surprise.


The kids got ready super fast! They were ready in 30 minutes when they usually take an hour. It was driven by getting out in the snow before we had to go to school!

Not only did they have a great time in the snow but it also gave me a great backdrop to try and get some pictures of the kids.  This is a good one, huh?

This one's for you, Tracy!  My attempt at one of your signature shots.

The kids with their finished super tall snowman. 

Love at first snow, man.

Another good picture but this one took a LONG time to capture and required a nonsensical joke told by Greyson to FINALLY get good smiles.  I gotta remember to try that sooner next time!

Oh, the down side to waking up to new snow - shoveling it off the driveway.  I'm a BIG snowblower fan, BIG!  Unfortunately when I got it started up and ran the first pass down the driveway, it got clogged again and again with the heavy, wet snow.  I finally gave up on it and put it away.  That left shoveling.... unhappy with our two shovels, I took a trip to Menards to arm myself and Greyson with a new ones.  So glad I did!  Greyson was my hard worker plugging away at getting the driveway clear.  Makes for one proud momma.

2 comments:

Tracy P. said...

I am DROOLING over these pictures!! Awesome job! That first one is beautiful. NOW...you need to widen your template so you can make your pictures bigger. :-) Maybe I will do a tutorial on that one of these days. But I'm pretty sure you could figure it out.

In my template it's about 3/4 of the way down the html, which is ridiculously massive at this point, and it looks like this:

#layout .content-outer {
min-width: 0;
width: 800px;

Right now you are probably at around 550px. Your photos deserve more! :-)

Such fun kiddos you have!! You are a great mom!

HJ said...

Oh my - great pics!!!! I love the one of them hugging the snowman!! Lovely!!!