winter wonderland

Friday I went out on shopping marathon with an attempt to finish my Christmas shopping. They were reporting a snowstorm, and I'd rather stick needles in my eyes than head out to Walmart in a snowstorm on a weekend day before Christmas. I managed to get one of the last sleds on the shelves, which proved to be a blessing.

Friday night we prepared Tyler for the idea that we might be getting snow. Reports were varied, but we knew we should at least get something.

Saturday morning we awoke to at least a couple of inches of snow. Tyler was ready, by maybe 7:15 to head out in the snow. LOL. I managed to hold him off until Jason's naptime, maybe 8:45, to go outside. Keep in mind, that was Ty's first real snow and NOTHING was gonna stop him!






Eventually Ty bored of me pulling him on the sled and decided to go "sledding". The conditions were too bad to go to the sledding hill. So he decided to turn our flower bed into a sledding hill. Pretty inovative, and considering he's never been sledding, he had no idea what he was actually missing.


Saturday afternoon I bundled up Jason and brought him outside. As you can see, he was less than thrilled.


Later that afternoon, I left Jason with my mom and took Tyler sledding. There was still a heavy snow and it was quite bitter, but he had a ball.


By Saturday evening there was still a heavy snow.

On Sunday morning we awoke to a "winter wonderland". It was still lightly snowing, but all was peaceful and gorgeous. Tyler was in awe, and frankly I was quite shocked to see snow up to my neighbors windows! We learned on the news that we ended up with 24 inches in Medford. Overall in the area it was the largest snowstorm we've ever had in December, and ranked 2nd in overall snowstorms in history in this area! Hey, Tyler wanted snow, and that boy got snow!


Eventually we couldn't contain Tyler anymore, so he geared up and head out with my dad to "help" shovel snow. We watched from the warm indoors, Jason waving from his highchair. Eventually I did venture out for a bit to take some pictures of our wonderland.












After I got Jason down for his morning nap I decided to join Tyler outside. Yes, I got caught in a snow drift. That's some heavy snow!


Spent a great deal of time getting caught eating snow (or as he called it, "getting fluids".

The obligatory snow angel making.

Eventually we decided to take a "sleigh ride" down to the lake to check it out. What a beautiful site!



After lunch we bundled back up, this time bringing Jason with us. Today proved to be a better experience, now that the snow had stopped and it wasn't so windy. He definitely was confused by it all, but wasn't upset. I think he was pretty interested. He did find Tyler's sled fascinating, but he kept tipping over. Poor kid couldn't control his own body...too bundled up.







Eventually we strapped Jason in his cute toddler sled my mom bought him and we (meaning Tyler and I) took him for a ride. He found this quite fascinating!


Finally, the warm-up! Followed by the e-mail that school for Monday was, in fact, cancelled. Snow day!