snow day

Tuesday evening while running errands and dropping children off at dance…IN MY TSHIRT and FLIP FLOPS…I received an email that school would be cancelled the next day. With the sun shining, I checked out the local news and over 160 schools had already announced closures for the following day. I kinda laughed to myself and thought it was some crazy Colorado nonsense.

We woke up the next morning to find rain and wind. I surely didn’t think it was worthy of cancelling the school day. Then the rain turned to snow and the temperatures really dropped and the winds really picked up. It was soon white out conditions. All 3 of my studios closed and we settled in for the “bomb cyclone”.

We did a whole lot of baking and reading and movie watching. We drank hot chocolate. We made root beer floats. It was fun to see the snow piling up outside. The girls went out to play in it while B shoveled.

We ended up with two snow days and then just like that the sun was back out, roads were clear, and the snow was melting. You gotta love Colorado!

brrrr…snow day

Per doctor’s orders I have spent the past two days in bed…more accurately, on the couch. I’m going mad! Thanks to the antibiotics I’m starting to feel better, but I’m certainly not back to normal. I’m starting to feel quite annoyed by this slow down in life but I suppose it’s necessary every now and then. I’ve slept and watched movies and then slept some more.

I finally got off the couch for some soup and took a look out the window. I had no idea that it was even snowing. I am really losing touch over here!

The snowfall was unexpected and the roads got bad quickly. My Westminster studio closed early and dance was cancelled for the night. B picked up the girls from school and we had a quiet night at home reading, watching Instant Hotel on Netflix, and drinking hot chocolate. I really do love this snowy, cold time of year in Colorado!

first snow

It finally snowed! It has been so warm, but it finally feels like winter now. I like to surprise the girls when it snows with ice cream. It is a weird little tradition, but it’s our tradition….and they love it!

Happiness!

I love, love, love winter. Bring on the snow!

blizzard

Colorado weather is bipolar!

There is no other explanation for this crazy spring weather. Tuesday we enjoyed 70 degrees and sunshine and Wednesday we played in two feet of snow. It put a swift end to our plans for the day. I was expecting a few inches, but we were snowed in!

B decided to head in to the Kitchen which was absolutely bonkers. The entire city was shutting down and the snow projections were coming in with high winds and inches and inches of snow. I texted and texted and texted him begging him to come home so he didn’t get stuck at the kitchen for the night. And then we waited…

And we decided to decorate Easter eggs. I didn’t stock up for much at the store the previous day because they weren’t projecting this much snow. I did manage to pick up “eggs” and dyes and the girls each picked out their own perfect kit.

Gwyneth went with glitter eggs which is not at all surprising.

I bought fake eggs to decorate because I wanted to take them to the hotel with us. They weren’t quite heavy enough though and floated on top of the dye. The girls had to keep spinning them and pushing them down and they ended up with stained finger tips but didn’t seem to mind at all. I’m not sure I would recommend it, but they did make for good travel.

Our view dying eggs.

B left the Kitchen at 1:00 and finally made in to our garage around 3:00 p.m. Keep in mind he works about 10 minutes from our house. He made it to our street before getting stuck. Our neighbors (who you can see behind Annabelle below) got stuck on the street also. The dads had to shovel the cars off the street and made a path down the road with their snowblowers for the rest of the neighbors.

We were so thankful that B made it home in this weather and we were able to enjoy the beautiful snowfall together.

Annabelle decorated snazzy mustache and top hat eggs. Very dapper.

Glitter eggs

I use to think I was the only one who enjoyed all this Colorado snowfall, but my little ladies love it too. I don’t think B dislikes it — at least not as much since he got a snowblower!