Living The Wong Way: Crazy Winter Stuff

**This post was started over a week ago so the timing seems funny. I feel I should be showing Christmas pics and stuff, but I still wanted to get this finished**

Wow, it has been a week of crazy weather. We woke last Sunday to some snow on the ground and Nolan excitedly shouting "it's snowing, it's snowing!!". The kids were quick to bundle up and go play in the back yard.

showing a little bit of love

catching snowflakes on his tongue

sliding in the snow

Monday when Nolan had school he was disappointed because I think he just thought it would be cool to not have school on a school day. After school we went shopping and Sophie immediately wanted to go see Santa. Nolan told her they weren't allowed to see Santa without having their lists, so they couldn't go that day. I knew that wasn't going to work, so we took them to Nordstroms where they could sit at a table and color and they wrote their Santa lists on the back of their color sheets. Nolan asked Santa for an Imaginext Batman Batcave and Sophie asked Santa for a Dollhouse and a mirror. She is so funny, she loves all things girly and found a mirror you could decorate with gems that day so she added it to her list.

showing their lists to Santa

On Wednesday there was so much talk of awful weather and freezing rain that school was closed. We actually saw no snow. This time Nolan was disappointed school was cancelled because he always goes to his friend Benjamin's house after school on Wednesdays. He was still invited over though, so he played there all day, which is so nice.

Friday night we went out to my parent's house in Washougal. They had quite a bit of snow so we ended up playing in the snow at 9:00 at night. We had quite a bit of fun and built our first snowman.

check out my snowball!

Sophie and her measuring cup

Our first snowman!

Surprisingly the kids actually got my mom and I out playing and we had a great time.

Nolan's snow angel

On Saturday we had a bunch of snow again and I had to work again. I cut my shift short because we only have one car with chains and Poy needed to work a full day. I'm pretty sure the kids had been asking about playing in the snow and Poy told them to wait for mom, cause as soon as I walked in the door they wanted to go outside and play. We had fun playing some made up games and having some races. I even pushed the kids in the recycling bin down the driveway :) Unfortunately Poy had the camera, so no pics of that fun. We tried to make a snowman again, Sophie even found the carrots, but we couldn't make a snowball to save our lives. The snow was so powdery it just fell apart.

Sunday, Poy went to work and I instantly felt the cabin fever. I don't mind staying home, but when I have stuff to do it makes me crazy. I decided to take the kids for a little (insert incredibly long) walk to Fred Meyer. I thought maybe I could get something done, but in the end all we walked out with was the little toys I bribed the kids with for agreeing to the walk. I can't believe how much snow is out there and it's iced over on top so it's difficult for little feet to traverse.