White Christmas...

We had quite a White Christmas here in Omaha. I may have mentioned that Armour wants to be just like his dad. I may also have mentioned that Wes had surgery on his finger in December, so he was one handed shoveling (I did help and did not make him go out there and shovel all the time). But on Christmas morning, Wes went out to shovel the snow and Armour wanted to help (surprisingly the other kids disappeared until after the work was done). So here are some snowy pics for your enjoyment.

wind drift

Sol loves to play outside.

February 2010: In cell phone photos...Part 1 Wes

As you probably all know, Wes is a radiology resident. This means that sometime during his 4 years in radiology residency, he has to go spend 4 weeks in Washington DC to do a national training. Well, that 4 weeks happened to be last month-Feb 2010. You might recall that DC had a storm that essentially shut the place down last month. That happened RIGHT as Wes was trying to fly there. That is a crazy story, but lets just say that after much hassle, stress & numerous flight changes, Wes made it to DC. Then he spent the first full week there stuck in the snow with his training cancelled due to the snow. Here are some of the snowy pictures he sent back via cell phone-can you spot the cars?! It's hard...

This first pic is my fave-it is the grill on his apartment porch...looks more like a troll to me...

A visit to the snowy lake...

A couple weeks ago on Feb 9, we met some friends, the Ursics and the Dunns in Coeur d'Alene to eat at Cafe Chulo. The Ursics had not been to the lake ever yet, so we went ahead and ventured over to the snowy lake and played there for a few minutes before we were all way too cold to continue...Here are a few pics...FYI, Ender took most of these pictures...)

Armour and Halle (taken by E)Halle, Ethan, & Armour (they are all really close in age...) (taken by E)
Ender
Solace goes after her dad (pic by Ender)
Armour sits on the cold cold cement...
Still after dad (taken by E)

Getting closer (E is still the photographer here)

Nice hit Sol!!! (And nice job capturing the shot En!!)
Armour
Ender
Look at that mischievous look...

Tuesday we had some more snow...

Although the snow is now melting and getting rained on, we had another pretty good storm on Tuesday. It was coing down pretty nicely-you really have to click on the pictures to truely appreciate how much snow was coming down! But I went out just to take out the trash and I documented my walk in photos-here are a few for your viewing pleasure!

This is out the front door. Looking at my van
Looking in the general direction of the dumpsters.
Me going back into the house!

Winter Wonderland

If you do not live in Spokane, you may not be aware that we were slammed in a huge storm this week (huge for Spokane anyway). We are expected to get more snow through Saturday. Evidently the last time the Spokane School District closed school was for a day was during a huge ice storm in 1996. Well, they cancelled school yesterday and today (this is significant to me because our preschool closes when the district closes). Church was even cancelled on Sunday! It has been crazy. We had a crazy weekend besides that, but I won't go into that. I just wanted to share the pictures I took from our house.

This is the view of our parking lot from our front door. My van is all snowy even in the carport because of the blowing snow!
The snow bunny Wes, Solace, and Ender made while Armour and I napped on Sunday. (Thanks to the neighbors for the button eyes).
Another minivan that didn't have a carport to park under...
Also just out our front door.
Looking out the side window of the house.
Looking out from the parking lot (you can see the snow bunny on the left)
The trees in the back.
Armour standing by the back sliding door (notice Solace's picture says "Armour"). I was trying to get a good comparison picture of Armour to the snow height to show just how deep it is, but it didn't work right. Trust me, it is deep!
There he is again (sans identifying picture)

Our lovely little grill on the back porch.

Out the back door.
Solace and Armour venture out (again I wanted to show how deep it was on Solace, but it is cold and icy enough that she wasn't sinking into it real far...)
Another Sol pic.
If you wondered where Ender was the whole time the others were outside...

(He loves pbskids.org and would rather play on it than do anything else right now...)

I guess its true what they say, it ain't over til it's over...

Happy Winter Spokane!