snowy day

I'm doing some writing while my url is down, I figured it'll all pop up when my site is functioning normally again. Besides, I blog so little now I'm not sure how many people are still out there reading! Guess that's what happens when you have a baby and a toddler AND you work from home...and host a small group...and... you get the point, we are busy people these days. Don't get me wrong though, I'm not complaining. We are so happy in our busyness.

Today we got to slow down a bit. Ben woke me early this morning to say he wasn't going to be heading to work right away because there were a few inches of snow. I barely understood him because we never get snow that can be measured in inches. It's been since winter of 2008 that we had enough to even stick around for more than a few hours. I rolled over and went back to bed, literally dreaming that the snow melted before I woke up. Then Ben woke me again and I assumed he was going to tell me that he was leaving for work, but he was waking me to come see how much snow there was. It was 4 inches by then and still coming down!

{front yard}

{back yard}

We spent a cozy morning watching the snow fall and then began suiting up to play before it inevitably disappeared. It took more than half an hour to get all of us dress. Malakai wanted to go out in the snow but didn't want to wear a coat or anything besides pj's, as usual. Once we finally got him dressed and outside he wouldn't keep mittens on so we snapped photos and then I headed inside with Des.

{first snow!}

I got him down for a nap in hopes I could head back outside to play but of course Kai's hands were too frozen by then and he was ready to come in. I was pretty bummed to not get my playtime in the snow, because then it rained on the snow. Wet snow is no fun at all.

So for the rest of the day Ben did some work from home and we stayed in our comfy clothes and enjoyed the view of the snow from our nice warm house. It was a pretty pleasant day overall and I'm glad we got one big snow before the spring rains hit.