Nor'easter...No Problem!

Mitch and I have just had to shake our heads and laugh at the "panic" that the mention of snow gets out here. Being from Minnesota and Illinois we have seen our fair share of winter storms, not to mention low temperatures and negative wind chills...brrrr! Out here in Jersey though, the mention of the "S" word makes people go crazy. For instance last week they were predicting that we were going to get hit by a Nor'easter and have quite a winter storm on Friday/Saturday. Well, on Thursday morning on our way to one of my weekly doctor appointments they had the salt trucks out already. Then on Friday around noon...before the first snowflake had fallen, all sorts of school closings and canceled extra-curricular activities were running across the bottom of the TV. Did I mention that it didn't even start to snow until around 11 pm that night.

Anyway the snow came, and we definitely took advantage of it! Not sure how much we actually got in our neck of the woods but we were guessing anywhere from 10-12 inches. Mitch went out to shovel the driveway and was saved by our wonderful neighbor. Bill came over and took care of it for him with his snowblower!!! After that we bundled Leah up in her snow pants for the first time, put her coat and hats and mittens on and headed out to brave the cold. The girl LOVED it! She most certainly has some of that native Minnesotan blood in her, because I think she would have stayed out there to play all day long. Of course our dog Neo, who is half husky was in heaven too...he just rolled and ran and rolled and ran, diving his nose in the snow every chance he got. Mitch took part in the fun too, chasing the dogs and kicking up the snow all over the place. Leah thought that was great. She laughed and laughed and attempted to chase the dogs too, but a toddler in snow pants doesn't move to quick. We took her out twice on Saturday and it was perfect...that afternoon she took a 2+ hour nap, which NEVER happens. It was great!

On Sunday we took her out again. You can see from the pictures that the sun was out in full force. Mitch and Leah built a snowman together, well mostly Mitch, but occasionally she tried to pack the snow in. After Mitch was done and the snowman had a face Leah wanted nothing to do with it. He had to hold her to get the picture. It was a lot of fun watching Leah play in the snow. We may get to do it again soon....they are predicting another 12-18 inches tonight, yay!