1st Snow!!

Yep, you better believe it!! October 6, 2011 was the very first snow of the season here in good old Alma, Colorado. It's crazy that just last week we were enjoying all the pretty fall colors on the trees and now in just a matter of days the seasons have completely changed. Looks like we don't get to enjoy fall this year, which I'm a little sad about because it's so beautiful.

Well last night and this morning it snowed a good 3-5 inches. It was so pretty outside with all the trees covered with nice white fluffy stuff!! We had decided to go in to Denver today, which is about an hour and a half from us, and go shopping and possibly try to find a fun pumpkin patch to take the kids to, if the weather was okay there. So we ventured out after Tyler's nap and just took it slowly down the mountain towards Breckenridge and Frisco, the two towns right before the freeway. It's only about 35 minutes to get there but it took us a little longer with the snow, hills and switchbacks, but we got there and grabbed some lunch to eat on the way to Denver. When we got on the freeway we were immediately slowed way down to like 4 or 5 mph and cars were slipping and sliding, we saw several people chilling on the side of the road both voluntarily and involuntarily, a few people almost collided with us and so we quickly decided that it just wasn't worth it to go to Denver today. So we just got off at the next exit, in Silverthorne, and did a little shopping there. Since our main snow/winter stuff is still in our storage unit in Idaho we didn't have anything for the boys to wear to play in the snow. We headed over to Target and took a look to see what we could find. It just so happens that we were able to get everything, boots, hats/gloves, and snow bibs for both boys and snow pants for me and an inter-tube to play with. It was fun, even though we didn't get to go to Denver. The boys are now all set for the coming winter season :)

When we got home, we got them all dressed and went outside to play for a bit...and they loved it! To see the rest of the pictures on my Facebook, click here. To see a cute video of some of the fun, click here.

The view from our house on the very 1st snow day!The lovely snow this morning after it had been snowing most of the night...Tyler wasn't too sure about the snow at first, but he warmed up to it pretty quickly.Parker's 1st Snow Angel of the season. Much improved from last year, I might add!Hard to believe that Parker wore that coat last year! hahaHe likes eating it...didn't take him long to figure that out!Right before he felt the need to throw snow at me!!And it came back to get him...hahaTickle Fight!!