Snow Day 2011

We are hunkered down and cuddled up, we welcomed this Snow Day 2011! We took advantage of the Blizzard outside and were prepared for some good ole' family time!
The have been talking of the magnitude of this storm for days now and so we started preparing on Sunday. We stocked up at the grocery store and made preparations to stay home! I packed up my laptop at work, got my ultra necessary work done and brought home what I could do from here. Brad is home this week too! I picked up the kids about 3pm from daycare yesterday and we headed home! The roads on the way home were a bit slippery, but mostly it was a slow drive because of all the blowing snow!

The kids were so good for Mommy on the way home, nice and quiet.

Mom and Dad enjoyed a nice glass of wine, which led to a bottle ;) and the kids enjoyed a movie and Dylan had a whole bowl of popcorn on his lap by 6pm, we were welcoming this down time! By the time we crawled into bed we looked out our bedroom window and the snow was already drifting up to the window ledge! It was incredible. I didn't freak out until Brad said, 'well I hope the window that is directly below us holds from the pressure'. Uh what?! Yikes, I started to panic a little bit just at the thought. It blew and blew all night long, the wind was howling and we already knew we would be home for the day on Wednesday.
We awoke to snow drifted everywhere!! In the middle of the night the town crew came thru with the backhoe because the drifting must have been that bad. We told Dylan he didn't have school and he was excited to stay home....for a minute, until he realized that no school meant that they weren't going to get to celebrate Elmo's Birthday today with their pajama party celebration :( Well a e-mail from the school said it was re-scheduled for Friday, as soon as we told him that his tears quickly dried up. Poor little guy!

I made my own little office on the kitchen table and put on a big pot of coffee for Brad and I. He finally ventured out to tackle the driveway. It was a bit misleading as we could still see small parts of concrete in our driveway, so Brad didn't think he would need the 4wheeler with the blade, he thought he could shovel. Wrong! He started and was quickly ready to bust out the 4wheeler when the neighbor came over with the snow blower. Beau saved the day and a lot of work for us! So Brad went and helped return the favor.

I got a little work done and a couple pictures from co-workers reinforced in my mind why I didn't trek in to work today. Check it out!

So we relaxed all day long. Made egg's and bacon for breakfast/lunch. Dylan had made some special friendship soup at school the other day and he was excited to eat it. So we cooked it up for him for lunch along with his favorite side dish, tator tots! Then we all ventured to the couch for an afternoon nap. Ahhh, we love relaxing family snow days!
We will go play in the snow on a much warmer day little buddy....we promise!

A cozy winter nap!

So although we all had a lot of other things to do today. We were happy to put them aside and we took advantage of the biggest Blizzard of this winter so far and spent the day as a family! 15 inches of snow for what we could measure but with all of the blowing we aren't surprised if we got more than that. Incredible! I hope this Blizzard of 2011 found you hunkered down with the ones you love in a warm and cozy place :)

And we must wish a VERY HAPPY 21st BIRTHDAY to my little brother Chase! Happy Birthday brother, enjoy it, be smart and have fun being legal!!! We wish we were there to Celebrate with you.