Snow Day!

We got snow!  After being in AZ for the last few winters, it's been nice to have a real winter... but it has yet to snow more than a light dusting (which is just more inconvenient than pretty).  Well, on Saturday, we got about 14 inches!  We did a lot of shoveling on Saturday and a lot of hiding inside, but it eventually stopped snowing around the time we went to bed.

On Sunday, we did some more shoveling... but then we did some playing in the snow!

Aaron felt guilty when I shoveled (not sure why, since he did the majority of it anyway), so he kept taking the snow shovel back once he got a short break (we finally bought a second shovel on Sunday).  While he chatted with the neighbor, who was also out shoveling, I built a snowman!  His arms are a little wild, but it was the best I could do since his first set of arms were consumed by some playful pups...

They finished up his arms and the other half of his nose while I moved Mr. Snowman outside of the electric fence... for his own safety.

The pups were all excited about the snow... it means that they can wrestle without landing on the hard ground when they tumble over!  I tried to play with the; but, as always, it ends up with them wrestling with each other instead.  At least they get along!

While the pups ran around, I went to see how Aaron was doing.  Aaron and the neighbor were STILL talking, so I took the shovel and cleared off the back porch... Lucy supervised.

Aaron finished chatting, finished shoveling, and came to play with us in the back yard!  The pups were even MORE excited to have both of us back there to run around with them.  And when they (again) got distracted with each other, Aaron made a snow angel.

Once the pups were tired out and Aaron and I were done reliving our youth, we went inside for some hot chocolate and movies.

Gus has taken to sitting on top of Lucy, no matter where she goes.  I don't know if it's a warmth thing or a bonding thing or just Gus being a playful pup, but it's cute!  Not sure Lucy appreciates it...

As always, the weekend ends with us on the couch watching a movie... We rented a LOT of movies this weekend because we knew that we would be stuck in side.  We rented And So It Goes, St. Vincent, Hercules (again, because I slept through it the first time... and this time too.  Whoops), A Place Beyond the Pines, Men Women and Children, and Lucy.  None were particularly good.  St. Vincent was cute and made me cry a lot, Lucy and A Place Beyond the Pines were super disappointing, and And So It Goes and Men Women and Children were chick-flicky and kind of mediocre.  Not a great movie weekend, but still fun!