Snow!

Finally some snow in Vancouver!  This was mid-January and as I'm writing this, it's February and beautiful and appears that this may have been the only snow of any significance for this season.  Being closer to the coast, the winter weather is mild at our elevation, rarely getting much below freezing.  We've had a lot of rain (surprise) which has been all snow in the mountains, making a pretty great season for the ski resorts...  Anyhow, we received maybe 5 inches of sticky snow and we spent most of the day outside making snowmen and sledding!

The snow stuck to the trees around the house and was very pretty in the morning.  Unfortunate down-side was a few big branches broke off and fell to the ground.

Molly is always taking pictures of me with her camera when I'm trying to take pictures of her.  She was getting ready to play and Owen was already out on the porch under the watchful eye of Bailey..  :)  She was quite the blast of winter color with her hot pink snowpants!

Owen in action....

Molly was just running around in the snow for a while....

Then she plopped down and started making snow angels.  She's kept saying Daddy look at my angels!

I can't believe she's almost 3.  Where did the time go?

Owen rolling up the start of the snowman!   Later in the afternoon at his friends house, we rolled a huge snow ball, then the boys cut a big hole in the middle so they could slide through it!

This picture makes me laugh every time I look at it.  I wish I could bottle up their laughter sometimes.. it's contagious.

He was so excited to help shovel snow and worked until he wore himself out...... hmmm I wonder how long that enthusiasm will last?

Of course, Molly had to have her shovel too because brother was helping daddy...  she just started working on clearing the lawn.

Later in the weekend, we went sledding with friends over at the community center where their is a nice sledding hill.  Most of the main path was worn down to dirt, but there was still a snow covered run...  Molly was hilarious instructing me...  Daddy, you sit on the sled, then I will sit in your lap, then we will go down the hill... she laughed so hard the whole way down... then of course, it was her idea that I carry her back up the hill because suddenly her legs were tired.  Owen had a blast with his buddies and they were catching air on a little jump in the middle of the hill.

Slightly off topic, here's Miss Molly and her princesses...  Aunt Sarah mailed up a Disney princess dress up kit for Molly for Christmas and she enjoys them so much!  They have a standup cutout and different outfits and accessories that she can stick to them.

She would dress them up and then stand back and say hmmmmm...  the crossed arms and pointy fingers just round out the whole scene.  We laughed a lot watching her, but she was very serious in her efforts.