snow days...

Well, I think the correct saying would be "snow daze". Man, what a week it was last week. Sunday night brought about 3 inches of snow here in Kennesaw, GA. By morning, it was at about 4.5 inches. The metro ATL area was at a standstill. The roads were awful with no relief in sight since most counties are quite limited on equipment for this type of thing. It didn't get above freezing for a couple of days. Therefore...ice...everywhere. Daniel didn't go into work Monday or Tuesday since he wasn't sure that he would make it there. He did manage to get there on Wednesday but he said the parking lot at work was just ice. I managed to get out and about on Thursday. The roads were pretty well cleared but there were still some patches of ice that you had to look out for. The schools here in Cobb County were out all week due to the road conditions. As of today, 7 days later, there is still snow on the ground. Weird, I know.

Charlie had a ball getting outside and playing in the snow. The issue we had with him at Christmas was that his hands got wet through his gloves and got cold so we found a way to remedy that for this snow adventure...ziploc bags. :) We put on his usual gloves, ziploc bags and then a pair of mittens. (Daniel and I did the same thing with our feet, just with Walmart bags.) We didn't figure Charlie would stay out there that long so I didn't layer him up as I should. That wasn't the smartest move but knew better for the second day out. He was out there a while both days...and had so much fun! The snow was really dry on Monday but by Tuesday, Daniel and Charlie were out there rolling the snow to make snowmen...4 to be exact. One for Daddy, one for Mommy, one for Charlie and one for Philip.

I did get Philip out there for a few pics but by the time I did, Charlie was ready to come in (as you'll see in one of the pics), so I didn't really get any good ones of the two boys. Our next door neighbors got out and played with us in the snow as well.