Fun in the Snow

Josh and Sydney have been having a good time in the snow! Josh asks me all day every day if he can go outside and play.

They really are like brother and sister. Sydney follows Josh around the yard, and he gets annoyed. He does stuff to harass her too. Mowing the lawn with the two of them around is always a challenge to me because I always have to stop multiple times to get after Sydney for pestering Josh and Josh for pestering Sydney. They are entertaining to watch.

Sydney and Josh had a great wrestling match in the snow. Sydney had Josh pinned and then she kept licking his face.

Then Josh pinned Sydney. As many times as Josh has wrestled her to the ground she has never once even growled at him. She's very good natured to put up with him.

This is a good shot of how deep the snow was after last week's storm. The faucet for the irrigation water was almost buried.

The snow was so deep that Josh kept falling down when he tried to walk in it. Sydney kept bumping into him as she followed him around and kept knocking him down. While I was shoveling the sidewalks, Josh came walking up to me saying, "Mommy, I lost my boot!" With as much snow as we had in the yard I started to panic, thinking I'd never find it until the snow melted but thankfully he remembered where he was when it came off.

Who needs a hill to tube down when you can do it in the front yard!

While we're outside playing in the snow, Connor stays nice and warm bundled up snoozing in his swing with his hair sticking straight up. I keep the baby monitor in my coat pocket so I can hear him when he wakes up and it sure is handy.

Happy warm baby!

He loves munching on his fingers. Every now and then he sticks them in his mouth too far and gags himself.

Sleeping on Daddy's lap.

Traffic in Payson

This is what you call a traffic jam in Payson!

We got hit pretty hard with snow with Monday's storm. It snowed all day. Tuesday morning, not realizing just how much snow was on the ground, I was going to take Josh to his cousin's house. I went outside and turned on the van to warm it up, went back inside and started getting Connor strapped in his car seat when I looked out the window and this is what I saw. A van was stuck right in the middle of the road. There was another van behind it that tried to go around the van that was stuck until it started getting stuck and ended up having to drive down the street in reverse and find another route to take. After the van had been stuck for a while, her husband showed up to help, but by then other cars were getting stuck. After seeing the van stuck in the middle of the road I decided it was highly unlikely that I'd even make it out of my driveway and even if I did I probably wouldn't get very far! The cars that were stuck were blocking me in my driveway anyway. I didn't think this guy would even be able to open his car door. I sat in my window for probably an hour watching various cars get stuck right outside my house. It was rather entertaining. I felt bad I couldn't do much to help, and instead I sat in my nice warm house and took pictures of the various vehicles that kept getting stuck. Josh and I went outside and had a good time playing in the snow. I'll have to post those pictures later!