Snow in March!

We got our first real snow of the year. On March 2nd. Crazy! We got about 8 inches, and I can honestly say that I don't think that I've seen that much snow in Richmond since I moved here in 2002! The news claimed that we did have this much snow a few years ago, but I certainly don't remember it. It started on Sunday night (thankfully our friends the Clarkes, left earlier in the day!) and continued along with some very high winds throughout the night. Our power flickered a few times, which made me nervous, but we never lost power. Whew!

We woke up to a winter wonderland! We found out that Tyler's daycare was closed for the day, and were shocked to find out that Travis had the day off as well! I had just a little bit of hope that we might be able to spend the snowy day together only to have that hope shot down. Yep, I had to be at work that day. But since the roads were horrible, we decided that we had time to dress Tyler up in his snow gear and take him out for a little bit. (And I'll admit - I was glad that I needed to go in late because I was not about to be robbed of being able to make a memory of Tyler's first snow with him by having to rush to work.) Several months ago, I bought some snow boots and snow bibs for Tyler, knowing that if I DIDN'T buy them we'd get 2 feet of snow.

So I got him all dressed up and ready to go! He was really good about putting on lots of layers, and did well with his boots and mittens too. The mittens were a little harder to get on, but once they were on, he was OK with it - he just couldn't pick anything up! He stepped outside, and walked fairly well. He seemed to really like it, and then he was nailed in the face with a snowball by one of the neighbors. Once we corrected that situation, he was better and played for a little while. He stayed outside until the winds were so bad that he was getting snow blown in his face, and was almost getting knocked over. Then he was most definitely ready to come in. But I'm sure it'll be another 4+ years before we ever get this amount of snow again so I'm glad we got to enjoy it now. (And also glad that it was gone before long, as we had temps in the upper 70s just days later!!!!! BRING ON SPRING!!!!)