Fun Snow Day

As some of you may have heard around Northern America, we’re in the middle of snowmaggedon here in the Seattle area. WOOHOOOOOO 8″ of snow here.

Thankfully we had so much notice that it’s no big deal for my family and I. We canceled some plans and we have all the essentials. I’d prefer if the power didn’t go out, but we’ll be ok for a bit if that happens as well. Our snow is really wet and heavy so power outages are common. All the trees look like they want to fall over from the weight of it right now.

But yesterday was the day before snowmaggedon was supposed to hit. We just got a taste of it but it was enough to have a snowday. So we called friends and went off to bum their snow. They are up higher in the hills with much more snow than we get. We did a little of everything. Sledding, quading, shooting, everything except a campfire and not sure why that didn’t happen. We just didn’t think of it lol Too many firefighters so why would we start a fire for heat?

It was our oldest first time on a quad and she’s getting her license soon. What better option than to teach her how to slide around in the snow right? She’s a really cautious kid so it was awesome to see her smiling and letting loose a little.

Which is the complete opposite of the youngest you can see in the second picture here. He rigged up an old, little skateboard with some rails for turning and shoelaces as bindings.  He spent a bunch of time waxing it up and then wanted to be drug around everywhere by the quad. The men in my life are addicted to youtube and creating stuff.

By the time we got home last night we were beat. I’m amazed I didn’t have a heart attack trekking up the sledding hill in the 8″+ of snow.  I then had to walk back down because I didn’t want my video camera broken.  Down isn’t easy either when everyone has packed the snow down with sleds and a snowboard and you are trying NOT to fall on your butt.

We had an incredible time with our friends and now I’m even more ready to move onto property.  It’s still hard to believe that the guys have a 4 day while this weather is going on. I’m glad for a few reasons. One, we all got to enjoy fun in the snow together. But two, I’d be worried about them going on MVA’s in this.  People around here are extra stupid since we don’t get much snow.

Snowmaggedon was supposed to deliver 10″ of snow today, but of course it didn’t.  There are still 6.5 hours of the day to go and noaa.gov says more snow, but I’m not holding my breath. We probably got around 4″ today so it was a big disappointment from what was forecasted.  Hoping for at least another couple of inches tonight. We even let son’s friend stay over because we expect no school tomorrow. OR they’ll possibly be tired at school since we’ve jinxed the snow by letting him stay over.

I’d like to end this post with a picture of a one of a kind refrigerated picnic table.  Don’t you wish you had one to keep your beverages icy cold?

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