On our snowday Kris Max and Sultan headed off to the dog park to expend some excess energy. I didn't go. It was much nicer for me that way.
But Kris came back with some awfully good photos on his phone. The snow was really deep. I had a hard time walking in it, I can't imagine how tough it would be at Max's height. Luckily Sultan's made for stuff like this. He's in his element.
They made a ginormous snowman. The kind of snowman you always dream of making as a kid.
And since they were at the dog park Max requested a special chain link picture. Evidently he liked the effect of the last one. Hilarious.
Max and I made cookies yesterday, and we thought in honor of the giant man of snow left at the park, we'd make some special dog park snowmen. Now that's appetizing, right?
I think we ended up getting around 10 inches, probably more. This photo was taken saturday morning--it snowed pretty much the rest of the day saturday, then most of sunday as well. We had a church snowday on sunday. The streets around our building aren't great, so with all the snow the bishop decided to just cancel. The snow was so beautiful, especially since we didn't have to go anywhere in it unless we wanted to.
On saturday morning we went on a sledding outing with friends from Kris's work. It was so snowy, and it was FREEZING. One of the dentists had told the guys about a great hill, so we headed out that direction. Of course it was really hard to find. But we finally got there. The hill was huge, and super snowy. It was really tough to get up, and none of the little kids could really do it on their own, so we had to carry them. My feet started to freeze.
My friend Bonnie took a pretty funny video of Max and her son Vincent going down the hill together. Vincent I think is about a year and a half younger than Max, and this was most likely his first time sledding. He didn't like this trip much. Check it out. You can kind of see how huge the hill is on this video. And it's hilarious how the dads run (and sled) to the rescue as soon as the boys wipe out.
(Thanks Bonnie!)
I don't have any photos of the sledding because I didn't want to haul my big camera out on the hike up the hill. But I do have a few from when we got back to the car. Max only ended up going down the hill about four times. That was about as many times Kris could carry him back up the hill without getting a hernia or something. The last time Max decided he wanted to go on his own--on his stomach no less. The snow was super powdery, and so as he went his sled kept kicking tons of snow right in his face. By the time he got to the bottom he was like a snowman, and he was NOT happy. That was the last run for us and we headed back to the car. Where of course I had the camera and took some pictures. The boys made some snow angels.
Max really didn't want me taking his picture. He said he had a "red face", which I think was in reference to his crying. Anyway, he was cool with throwing snowballs, but when I tried to take a picture of just him being cute he freaked out.
Making snowballs!
It was so powdery that it was tough to throw. And Max isn't that great of a thrower anyway.
And here's the freakout: I mean, his face was definitely red. From the cold and the crying. But it was just hilarious how self conscious he was about it. I had to sneak a photo of him in the car, I couldn't help it. Sledding is fun, as long as my feet don't get too cold.
We made it home. It's always sad to end a vacation, but at the same time coming home is nice. Especially since our bed(s) and sleeping situation are so much better than it was stuffed in a small hotel room with three of us all sharing two small double beds. It's been nice to get some sleep. In fact, Max slept in until 10 this morning! I can't remember the last time that happened.
And he could sleep in because he had a snow day today. Supposedly there's this huge winter storm coming in today. It's supposed to drop around a foot of snow on us in a few hours time. I guess last year they had a surprise storm similar to this one on the afternoon of a workday. The plows and snow guys weren't ready, so a lot of people got stuck on the road. It took one of our friends about 3 hrs to get home from the hospital. He lives right by us, only about 10 to 15 minutes away from the hospital on a normal day.
So there was much preemptive canceling. All the schools are closed today, Max's swim lesson at the Y is canceled, his ballet class is canceled.
I don't mind too much because I still feel like I'm recovering from our busy vacation, but Max was sad because today was going to be his last day of school before winter break. He loves school and was kind of bummed to miss it, even for our vacation.
So anyway, it's about 2PM and the snow just started. We'll see how bad it actually gets. Maybe they're not just paranoid out here, I don't know.
Kris took his mountain bike to work today. His theory is that if there's bad visibility and really bad road conditions, he'll make it home a lot faster on the sidewalks with the mountain bike. We'll see about that.
Max and I are going to hang out and watch christmas movies (if I can get the one currently jammed in the DVD player out) and maybe make some yummy christmas cookies. And watch the snow. Sounds like fun to me.
Now if everybody could just cross their fingers that they send everybody home early at Kris's work it would be great. It's a very very long shot, but it sure would be nice.
