Just another Snow Day

Last night dad talked about when he was young and papa used to build a sled chute in the back yard of there house on West 52nd Street. SO this morning, dad when out and piled up some more snow on the deck (he said there was alot already) and made a little chute. Before we went down, mom took our picture.

Jacob got to be the test subject, after a little bit of wiggling, he made it to the bottom.

Now it was my turn, I had to wiggle a little bit too.

Remember the big hole that dad made by jumping into the snow, well I thought it would be fun to crawl into it.

I needed some helpin' to get out. it was bigger than me.

Jacob took his turn in the hole too.

Dad grabbed the shovel and a bucket and dug out the hole and made it a tunnel to the driveway.

There's been several stories on the news about kids out playing getting stuck when a tunnel or fort collapsed, so dad used some plywood to reinforce the top.

I really like using the tunnel instead of walking all the way around and through the garage. It's much easier to get to the backyard now.

Jacob really like crawling through the tunnel, he tried to sneak up on dad, but got caught.

Whew, we had fun playing, but it's time to go in and eat lunch. We're supposed to get another 3 inches of snow, and it just started as we were going inside to warm up.

Winter Wonderland

Yeah Boy, we got to go out and play in the snow tonight. Mom wanted to take us in the back yard, but the snow is way to deep from all the drifts, so we played in the front yard.

Doh ! ! ! !

No I'm not talking about the kind of Dough that mommy uses for her baking, I'm talking about the forehead slapping kind of Doh ! ! ! Fortunately this didn't happen to us (insert Mommy).

Yesterday when dad was snow-blowing the drive way again, for the millionth time since Wednesday, we say the neighbor across the street cleaning off his car. He started it up so it would be nice and warm for him when he fianlly got it all cleaned off and was ready to leave. The only problem was that he locked his keys in the car, and apparently on the same set of keys were his house keys, cause dad said he ran across the street to use another neighbors phone.





A few minutes later, one of Mayfield's finest showed up and was able to open up the neighbors car.

How Deep Is It

So dad made a couple of trips outside today to keep the driveway cleared off, we asked him how deep the snow was, he said deep, but how deep is deep. The weatherman said that our area got 13 inches of snow yesterday, but in places it was drifting up to several feet. So how do we really find out how deep the snow is, we send dad back outside of course.

Dad said that the drift on the deck was 2-3 feet deep, so we told him to check how deep it was in the yard.

I think dad is having doubts, but he can't dissapoint me.

Dad jumped down, but didn't make it all the way to the ground. He said he was stuck, so we sent mom outside to snap a couple more pictures of dad trying to get out of the snow drift.

Well dad, what are you waiting for.

I heard dad say something about it being cold in places it shouldn't be.

Mom was laughing pretty hard as dad crawled his way out. Both Jacob and I thought it was pretty funny too.

He finally slid out and came down on the driveway. Next time he said if I wanted to know how deep the snow was, I should go find out for myself.

Blizzard of '07

Blizzard '07 with a Panhandle Punch

Here's some pictures that Dad took this morning before and after cleaning the driveway (not like we're going anywhere anyway)

This one is from the kitchen window looking out onto the deck.

Dad was warming up the snow blower when he took this picture.

Yep, it was cold too.

Gonna be awhile before Jenna or I get to play in the back yard.

The snow is a couple feet deep, and we don't mean our little feet either.

Dad is thinking about trying to get the snow off the deck, but we suggested he just wait til spring, we assured him the snow would be gone by then.

Driveway is nice and clean, but it won 't stay that way for long with all the wind blowing the snow around.

We stayed inside where it was nice and warm.

Our old house.

10 Down, 2 To Go

Yep It's True, just 2 short months from now we'll be 5 years old, that's a whole hand.

As it turns out, April 6th is going to be a busy day, it's out 5th birthday, it's Good Friday, it's also the Home Opener for the Cleveland Indians, and it case we didn't mention it before, it's our birthday.

For the second year in a row, we'll be attending the Home Opener. According to the Indians website, this will be the view from our seats in Section 511.

We did have tickets for 3 years ago, but it was such a cold day that mom & dad left us with grandma & papa and went to the game without us. They froze they buns off, so I'm glad we didn't go.

Going Global

Today I was making some updates to past blog posts, and adding some pictures for another post that will be published lated today. I checked the site meter, as I normally do a couple times a week, and saw we had a rash of hits today from 11:32 to 11:57. We noramlly get a couple visitors after an update (on the www.blogger.com page it shows recently updated blogs) but today something else happened. 35 visitors within 25 minutes, that's gonna throw our average off a bit.