Surprise Snow Day!

Here ya go - another back-post. Pretend this is dated the last week of January! :)

Sunday morning we woke up to a big surprise. Ethan had us up nice-n-early (well, earlier than we wanted to be up when we don't have church until 11am). So here we were, sitting in the living room in our pj's with Ethan happily drinking his bottle, I decided to check the weather and took a peek outside. "What's this?!?! It snowed! Correction: it's snowing!!" We couldn't believe it. We already had a couple inches. It was within the hour that we received the call that church had been cancelled (most of our ward lives up in the Thurston hills). This was a BIG shock for southern-cali Sean - he'd never heard of such a thing. We felt especially guilty because we live at the bottom of the hill. None the less, our little family stayed tucked inside all day, enjoying the beauty and the peacefulness of all the snow. We did bundle up for one outing into the snow so that Ethan could have his first snow experience - Ethan and I don't have snow gear, so it had to be a relatively short experience! We mainly just held him - it was still snowing and pretty wet - but the last few minutes before we went in, we let him down so he could crawl around in it. I think he liked it quite a bit, but he was still trying to figure out what was going on, so he was pretty quiet - just in awe of his surroundings. He did enjoy crawling in it - even though he sunk into the snow with each crawl. Other than the fact that we had to miss church, it was a great day. I loved having no where to go and just being with Sean & Ethan - my boys.