SNOW DAY

Well, it looks like we are going to have a White Christmas here in central VA this year. This past Friday, December 18th, it started snowing around 5:00pm. It continued to snow through the night and all day on Saturday. When all was said and done, we got about 20". Sunday dawned cold, but bright and sunny. Marc got up and set about the task of shoveling snow. While he was busy doing that, I put Grey down for his morning nap, and got Luke all bundled up to go outside. Since the poor boy doesn't yet own snow boots this season, I had to improvise. I put on two pairs of socks, then put sandwich bags on both feet and then another pair of socks before putting on an old pair of tennis shoes. My goal was to try to keep his feet dry (it actually worked pretty good).

Here he is in all his bundled glory.

Marc had already shoveled the part of the deck by the front door, and had begun working on the middle of the deck. He had to give Luke a little help to that part of the deck.

Immediately, Luke got right to work helping Daddy out.

I informed the boys it was time to take a break so that we could venture up into the yard.

Marc put Luke into the snow, which after sinking down, it came up to the bottom of his coat.

Our property is at the front of the neighborhood, so our split-rail fence gets decorated every year by the Garden Club.

Due to the depth of the snow, Luke had a hard time getting around, but he had fun with Daddy just the same.

By this point, he had had enough.

We were only outside for about 20 minutes, and I think he enjoyed it. I am now on a mission to get him some snow boots so he'll be more prepared next time. My luck, I'll get them bought, and then we won't have anymore snow this winter.