We have snow!!!

YES! The weather forcasters were right and we did get snow. Lots of it--at least for our area it's a lot. As a matter of fact, the biggest storm in 20 years! It started very early Saturday morning about 3 or 4am and didn't let up until the afternoon. I got up with Ryan in the morning and let him open the door to see the snow. That was my first mistake because then he didn't want to close the door. After explaining for a couple minutes that it was too cold and too early for the door to be open, I was able to close it without incident. After Dean got up, we ate breakfast and Dean had to go into work. He's a maintanance supervisor for apartment complexes and they were told they needed to go in to shovel the main entrances. Ryan saw his Daddy outside cleaning off the truck and getting it warmed up. Second mistake--letting him watch Daddy and telling him we can go play in the snow later. To a 2 1/2 year old all that he heard was "play" & "snow". So from then on, he was saying "outside, play outside". He even cried a little when Dean left (Because Daddy is his playmate!). Finally, Dean came home, we ate lunch and then got ready to go outside. That was a big deal in itself. Not only did I have to get myself dressed in layers but Ryan too. Mistake number three--dressing Ryan in 3 layers after I was dressed in 2 heavy layers! Talk about working up a sweat! I was considering not wearing my coat outside after that ordeal (haha!). Plus, after dressing Ryan in his 3 layers of clothing, I still had to put on his gloves, mittens over his gloves, coat, hat, & boots. I was beginning to think the snow wasn't worth it but that all changed as soon as we stepped outside. He was overjoyed to say the least.

As you can see, the snow was still coming down and the wind was blowing so it made it hard to do much of anything since it was pelting us in the face. We weren't able to stay out a long time but enough to make snow angels, try to throw some snowballs (the snow was too fluffy) and Ryan got to run off some energy.

He was so upset that we had to go back in and cried for a while. I wanted to go back out later but it was just too windy so we will make some more memories today. Last night it looked so pretty and peaceful in our backyard so I couldn't resist another picture.