Snow...And More Snow!

I have been waiting for a "snow" day all winter!  We have had some bitterly cold days so far, and nothing to show for it until now!  On Tuesday, the genius weather folks didn't predict any snow or make mention of anything drastic, so when Anthony said it was snowing that morning when he left, I didn't think anything about it.

When Nolan and I left the house, it was coming down pretty good, and starting to stick!  I figured it would end soon so I continued on to daycare, dropped Nolan off and went on into work.  On the way, the roads became increasingly worse, but I just kept on trucking.  There were people sliding/wrecks ALL over the place.  A couple of my coworkers even turned around and went right back home because it was so bad.

I made it to work, but even had to drive around a car stuck in the median right in front of our  building just to get in!  I loved it - it was exciting/exhilarating and somewhat scary all at the same time.  The snow kept coming, and looked like it wasn't going to stop!  Our office was pretty much a dead zone, so I hung around until about 10:30 (at which point my mom called and demanded that I come home).  Pretty comical - I told my folks at work that I had to leave because my mom was making me :)

Turned out it was a good time to leave, because the rush hour madness had died down, and Nolan's daycare sent out a mass text that they were closing, so I had to leave anyway.

 

This cracked me up - he looked like that kid from A Christmas Story!  Good thing he still wears a diaper :)

 



 

We ended up getting a good mix of ice/snow that day, and missed the next day and a half of work.  The great news was that Daddy was also off, so we got to introduce Nolan to his first snow day ("Snowmageddon" from last year in Atlanta didn't count - he was only 4 months old!)  We went outside once and had a good time baking and getting some house projects done on our time off.  It didn't really stick, but that was fine since another round was coming...

 

And of course, we had to warm up in our robes afterwards :)

The course looked so pretty!  And there are some killer hills around the other side of this picture...can't wait for Nolan to get a bit older for a sled!

 

And we couldn't let Vegas miss out on all the fun!  She loved it, and ran around all over (minus the wagon rides - that is too close for comfort with Nolan...ha!)

 

 

The second round was supposed to be "monumental," but ended up being a big disappointment.  We bought a ton of groceries for the "10-12 inches" that they were expecting, and needed none of them!  We still had to miss a day of work because of all of the ice, and thankfully we didn't lose power, but it wasn't nearly as dramatic as we all thought.