First Snow!!

Continued...

I woke up around 7 a.m. yesterday when I heard Landon in the bathroom...he was barfing again. Poor kid.  He slept all night with no sickness and bam as soon as he wakes up - it continues.  I again got him set up on the couch and I'm happy to report that he hit the bowl each time :) it's the little things!

We didn't have time for sickness today (had to miss a 2nd birthday party due to it) - it was SNOWING!!  As soon as I told Landon it was snowing, he says "are you serious?", haha!  Yes, buddy I am.  He perked up enough to go out and play in it for about 20 mins after Zane woke up!

He sure looked good in these pictures...but the sick-saga continued for much of the day unfortunately. Then all of a sudden around 5 p.m. - he was over it and was hungry!  He ate two BBQ sandwiches and plenty of crackers...all stayed down and he even went to school today!  Woohoo!  So glad that was a quick one.  NOW, lets all hope, pray and cross our fingers that Zane doesn't get it; my worst fear!

You may notice my poor neglected rag-a-muffin child Zane wearing size 5 snow pants (he's a 10) and a too small jacket and tennis shoes because he doesn't have any snow boots.  It didn't phase him one bit, but I couldn't stop laughing at his high-waters, poor kid!  We didn't have ANY snow last year, there was no reason to go out and buy snow gear, so he had nothing.  Landon of course has all of Zane's hand-me-downs, so had no problem being prepared!  You'll be happy to know that I ordered Zane new boots, snow pants and a winter jacket and it all should be here this week - because they are predicting more snow next week; yahoo!

Snow

Snow in November on the west side of the state is almost unheard of, so when there was a prediction for snow last Saturday - I laughed!

Then I woke up to this:

I'm not complaining, I love the snow!  And this snow was the best kind of snow in my book.  It looked beautiful falling, it stuck only to the grass and the streets stayed pretty clear - and it melted within 2 days!  I remember going to school in Ellensburg and getting pounded with snow...I loved it when the season first started, but then it just fell cold and the snow froze and stuck around for.ever! The pretty white snow became gross dirty snow and again, stuck around for.ever!  This west-side snow is more my type!

I drove to pick up the boys and they were so excited to get home and see how much snow we had - they just had a little dusting at grandma and papa's I guess.  This picture above is on our drive back on Hwy 18.  I had to pull over and take a photo, it was just so pretty to me!

The boys couldn't get into their snow clothes fast enough!

Josh and our neighbor Jim keeping warm with some ice cold beers while keeping an eye on the kids :)

I hope this was the first of many snow falls this season - last year we were pretty jipped!

Snow {Sort Of}

Well, it looks like most of Western Washington was blessed with a few inches of snow last night...except Snoqualmie.  I still find it very odd - we are 30 miles from the pass and it was snowing like crazy most of the night - it just wasn't sticking.  Weird.  Oh well...we were happy to wake up to some white stuff, even if very little and very short lived!

Sledding

We headed up to Snoqualmie Pass yesterday afternoon with our friends the Bergman's and took a few runs down the sledding hill!  We all had a great time.  Landon especially - it's amazing how much he's grown over the last year.  Last year he wanted nothing to do with the snow or sledding...we had to literally force him to have fun and ride down the hill with Josh or I.  This year...he was all about doing it himself!