Snow!

Last week winter decided to give us one last blast.  We ended up with at least 6 inches of snow.
The photos below show how much snow fell in about a 2 1/2 hour period.  

Snow!

We had some weird Winter weather lately. Yesterday we had snow showers. It would snow like crazy for about an hour and then the sun would shine and melt all the snow. The picture below shows the back end of one of the storms.

My poor flowers peeking out from the snow.

It ended up snowing about 3 inches. Enough for Benny to finally make his snowman.

Benny's snowman!

Thanksgiving

Over the Thanksgiving holiday, Brad's sister Melanie and her two boys (Billy and Ian) came for a visit. They only stayed a few days, but we enjoyed the time they were here. They flew in the day after our first snowfall of the year.

After picking them up from the airport, we headed into Seattle to see the sights. Here is Ian and Benny at the Space Needle. Benny loved spending time with his cousins.

It was a beautiful sunny,but cold day. The city looks lovely in the snow.

National Park Week

In honor of National Park Week, we took a day and visited Mt. Rainier National Park. Benny and Brad went on a hike while I fed Timmy. They saw some black tailed deer. Benny next to a very big log.

Once up at the top at Paradise, Benny had fun making and throwing snowballs.

Benny and Brad had fun making this snowman. The snowman is wearing Mommy's sunglasses.

Little boy butt crack. Like father like son.

Yummy Snow

Benny was facinated with the snow. One night I brought some in for him to play with. He found out that he could eat it.

Is this eatible?

Whoa! That's cold!

Yummy snow!

Snow Pictures

Here are some more snow pictures. I think we had at least 8 inches when it was all said and done. We actually had a white Christmas. Here are the poor snowmen that line our sidewalk. Here are our deer eating snow.

Our little sledding guy seemed to be caught in a snowdrift.

I thought this picture was neat. The snow kind of makes the bush quite illuminated.

Snow in the Mountains

Here are some pictures we took going to and from Leavenworth and while we were in Leavenworth. Enjoy! (p.s. the last picture has the moon above one of the mountains. I took that early in the morning.)

Major Update!

As my mom told me last night, I have not updated this in awhile. I have a good excuse. Too much has been going on. Since the last update, we have visited family over Thanksgiving, seen the Zoolights at the Point Defiance Zoo, dealt with a lot (and I mean a lot) of snow and cold weather, spent a few days in Leavenworth, WA and went and had pictures taken with Santa. Oh yeah, and somehow fit Christmas shopping in there.

One thing I do want to mention is Benny's new thing. He likes to tickle people. He will come up to us and put his hand on us and say "tickle tickle". It is so cute. I have a video of it and I will upload it tomorrow.

We are expecting anywhere from 6 to 8 inches of snow tonight (Sat) into tomorrow (Sun) so I will not be going anywhere. My goal for tomorrow is to upload a ton of stuff I want to share from all the fun listed above.