Snowmaggedon 2014

As many of you know, we don't get snow often around here. The last time there was a good snow was when Alia was born in December of 2008. The city is ill-equipped to deal with it and it generally shuts the entire city down. On Thursday, February 6 (while Max's class was on his field trip) the snow started to really come down, hard and fast. By 11:30 most local school districts had made the decision to close early and try to get kids home before the roads got awful. Pretty much the entire city left wherever they were and tried to get home. Jason was no different and ended up in his car for nearly 3 hours trying to get the 6-ish miles or so back home. Craziness!

There was no school, gyms were closed so I didn't have to teach, everything was at a stand still for the whole weekend. Schools were closed Friday & Monday and we spent a lot of time hanging out at home. We did get outside to play a little bit, but we don't own any snow gear so the adventures outside were fairly short. 

Thursday - noon

Thursday - evening

Playing outside in the snow on Friday

We tried to make a snowman but the snow was very light and powdery and didn't pack well :-(

using garden tools to play in the snow

our little "Olaf" the snowman

When you are cooped up in the house for a few days, things start to get interesting ...

Mommy teaches everyone how to use the dust buster and the Swiffer ...

And this guys sense of humor gets even more silly!

Class Field Trip

Max's Preschool class went on a field trip to Papa's Pizza to celebrate the end of their study of the five senses. They got to tour the kitchen, play in the play area and eat pizza of course!

Adorable 3 year old kiddos waiting for the tour of the kitchen.

playing in the ball pit

saying their little class prayer before eating

The best part - eating the yummy pizza while Mrs. Franklin read a story. Max put everyone else to shame and had 4 pieces of pizza. He was the last one left at the table. That's my growing boy!

Time To Update

Time seems to be going by faster than I can catch it these days. I blinked and we were already 6 weeks into the new year. I'll do a post or two to get you caught up on the happenings here at the Douglas house.

Max has suddenly taken quite the interest in writing, doing "homework" and reading me stories. He drew me a picture at school, this says "Max, Mommy". He did that all by himself. Pretty impressive if you ask me.

Max and his best buddy Landon try to do a play date together once a week. That way the boys get to play and one mommy gets a morning off while the big kids are at school. This play date was at the Children's Museum. 

Eilee spends most afternoons with us. She and Alia love playing together. In this picture, they were cuddled up in the chair at Grammy's apartment. 

Grammy (my mom) moved here mid-January. It has been so nice having family near and has already saved my rear a number of times. 

I've been learning how to crochet. My first big project was this blanket for Alia. She picked out the colors :-)

She loves it and carries it with her from room to room.

Then of course, Max needed a blanket too. These are the colors we picked out to match his bedding. I'm nearly done with it. Next on the project list are a bunch of baby blankets for expecting friends. 

Fortunately, or not, depending on how you look at it, we got a new garage door recently. We didn't enjoy spending the money but we do love having a safer door that actually works and is VERY quiet.