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Snow Day!

Seattle usually gets one or two snow storms blow through each season and this year looked like it was going to be a bust, especially since Puxatawny Phil came out last week to say Spring was around the corner. Well, we shouldn't have let our guards down because we got a doozy of a snowstorm on Sunday night!

The snow started right around when the Superbowl kicked off and was off and on until about 11am on Monday morning. The result was about 10 inches of snow for us - easily the most we've gotten in our house since we moved here. School was cancelled and the girls were deliriously happy and had a marvelous time playing in the powdery snow in the morning. By the afternoon though they were pretty stir crazy and there was lots of yelling and crying in the house. 

The sun is out today but the temperatures will stay below freezing. Schools are out again. The weather is forecasting below freezing temps most of the week with another possible snowstorm at the end of the week. Yay for a few more weeks of winter!

Morning view

Between 8 and 9 inches at about 8 am in the morning.

Morning walk around the neighborhood
Pretty fun to be the first ones to make snow tracks
 
Snow was too powdery to make a snowman.

Sledding down our driveway

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