Snow Days

We've been enjoying a cold spell here in the Northwest lately. The news anchors have dubbed it "Arctic Blast 2008" which makes me laugh because all those people in the Midwest and the Northeast would call our "Arctic Blast" a mild snow day in November - not even full winter for them. It's amazing how a little snow and ice can shut down the entire metro area. We woke up to a ton of snow this morning and we wanted to get Mister outside to play and build a snowmand. We waited until Pumpkin went down for a nap to get out because he's got a cold and we didn't want to make it worse for him. Anyway, Mister loved playing in the snow. Although, after he took off his gloves (it warmed up a lot and the snow started melting when we got outside) he didn't want to help Scott put the last ball on the snowman.

We're not big snowman makers, so we had to improvise for his features. We broke of a few twigs from a dormant bush and scoured the yard for a few rocks we could use as eyes. The nose and mouth are made of the fluffy stuff on the ends of those dormant twigs. Not a traditional snowman, but we tried our best. :)


Mister made good use out of his beach toys for this backyard outing. His shovel and bucket were never far from his side.

And what snow day would be complete without a snowball fight? Scott and Mister had a lot of fun together lobbing snowballs at each other. Check out Mister's determined face here:



And here he is dodging one of Scott's snowballs:

Our dogs loved being outside with us. You'd think they'd gone to heaven being able to run around and plow through the snow. When Bruno's face gets all wet the hair lays flat and he looks more like a rat than a dog, but we still love him to pieces. He's cuter when he's dry. :)

We had a tennis ball out there to play fetch with them, but Belle especially liked going after the snowballs that she could crunch in her mouth. Here are some fun action shots of her going up for the snowballs thrown her way.




We had a great time outside, but eventually the sun went back behind the clouds and the wind picked up, so we headed back inside. But we did enjoy the snow and the yard for a good hour before we had to call it quits. I'm off to make some hot chocolate and curl up with a book under a blanket for the next few minutes before Pumpkin wakes up from his nap and wants to play.