Winter is Melting Away

We had a late season snow this weekend after a nice warm week. It was a nice treat here at the end of winter, but I am looking forward to the 70's that are forecast for later this week! We are hoping that this late winter weather didn't affect all of the crops here again this year. We are really looking forward to blueberry picking this summer and would hate to hear that the crop has been lost!

You can see the pictures of the snow resting on all of the spring flowers on our pear tree. That was the scene all over town. Almost all of the spring flowering trees were in bloom and covered in snow at the same time. It was beautiful.



The kids had fun playing in the snow for very brief periods of time. Alyza could only stand it for about 15 minutes at a time; her hands would get cold through her mittens. She liked it this year though, which was a welcome change from the snow of '08. Last winter she was quite certain that the white death had fallen upon us and all the earth was ruined. She wound up sitting in her swing bundled up like an eskimo looking at all of us with a sad and slightly fearful expression. What a difference a year makes!! She made snowball after snowball and came and dropped them on daddy's feet!

We had some friends over to play Wii that evening and even they couldn't help going out to make snow balls !! Isaac is getting better and better in the aim department, and he made more snowballs this weekend than I've seen him make in all of his eight years. He was a really good sport about getting smacked, too. You can tell from the photos how many times he got hit!! We made him go warm up in the shower when he came in!!



Trystan was spending the night at Ninnie's house so we didn't get to play in it with him until the next day. But here's a pic of all three of them in it the last time it snowed.












The kids enjoyed studying the snowflakes up close with magnifying glasses on dark socks I put on their hands. (that one was a surprise snow that only lasted a few hours) I'm hoping to do more nature study this year if I can get the kids excited in that subject. The new trampoline they got for Christmas has helped alot to get them outdoors more, and we have enjoyed it every day the weather has allowed!!


Don't think for a minute that we are in a deepfreeze here!! In just two more days the weather will be in the mid 70's, and just a few short weeks after that we'll likely be wearing shorts and running the air conditioner again!! This snow was just in honor of my Mom's birthday this week. She grew up in South Dakota and every year on her birthday in the first week of March there was a blizzard. Her brother called her to joke about it this weekend. No matter how far away she moves she still gets her birthday snow!! Happy Birthday, Mom!!