Thursday, February 13, 2014

Snowmageddon 2014

It may not have started out as much,

enough to do a little southern sledding,
 
make a little snowman,
 
and then we hit Day 2.


Which brought the most snow we've ever seen in Charlotte.

It was absolutely breathtaking.

And it meant the real fun could start. Full-size snowman,

 great packing for snowballs,
 
some tunnel digging through the two foot high drifts,
 
and driveway snowboarding (I think both kids are naturals--makes this mama proud! Oh, and sidenote--plastic, when stored for more than a decade in a hot/cold garage, eventually does disintegrate, as seen when my bindings fell apart at the slightest touch, implying that maybe those car seat expiration dates aren't so crazy afterall).
 
 The neighbors even built an igloo.

Pretty impressive for the few hours that it lasted.

The neighbors are always one of the best parts of snow storms.
 
Everyone's out and about, playing, meeting at the park hill for sledding. It's always so fun and breaks up the long months before the pool reopens so we see all these people regularly again.

We had a couple more days of great snow fun. I'm not really a cold weather person, but if it will snow enough that we can really have fun in it, I'd take a good storm once a year.
 
Check out those blue eyes :)

All the snowman building made him pensive.

Even Peanut warmed up to the idea.
 
 

Monday, February 10, 2014

We're Still Alive

Wow, it's been a long time.  We didn't disappear, or even get deathly ill, although there have been a lot of random illnesses the last 2 months.  Multiple rounds of colds for all of us, and then a couple urgent care visits for Daddy-o and I who have had an abnormally difficult time shaking these things this year.  January was a blur of antibiotics and doctor offices.

But mixed in with the illnesses, we've had some fun, too.  A few tennis lessons (in between the cancellations for terrible weather), Eco club and Running Club at school, storytimes and toddler science classes for Peanut, Chinese New Year dinner, a snow day, a birthday, and playdates. 

We finally got around to cleaning up Christmas (I won't admit on here how late it was--the beginning of January was a rough time for us.)  We've thought about new goals, for the family, for individuals.  We've made plans for vacations and home improvement projects.

We're ready for 2014, just a month or so late :)