Snow at the adobe!!!!
Oh special day! It snowed!! Here!!! At our HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Tucson weathermen/women had been warning us about this winter storm since Monday. Yesterday morning warnings were flooding the tv stations announcing “90 minutes until it hits.” “60 minutes until it hits!” “30 minutes!!” The countdown was on. The skies definitely looked ominous and the surrounding mountains were already socked in. News reporters were showing live video of blizzard-like conditions at the higher elevations. Even though it was still a pleasant 50 degrees out and according to the weather predictions I still had time before the storm, I opted out of my morning run with the kids. Being out in snow with kids in a stroller is probably sacrilege in sunny Tucson and I didn’t want any beef from passerby. We instead went to the library for storytime just after the “30 minutes and it’ll be here!! Don’t travel unless you have tooooo!!!!!!” announcement on the tv. Hmm, maybe this will be exciting.
We walked out of the library and it was raining. Humph. Boooring. I buckled the kids in, pulled out of the parking lot, and wham! The rain instantly turned to snow and it was a full on blizzard just like the weather peeps predicted. We made our way home as heavy wet snow quickly piled up on the hood of the van (how fun!). When we got home we ran around a little bit in the front yard yelling “woohoo!!!” and then raced inside to watch it come down.
The kids at the front door watching it come down
Could it really be? It’s actually starting to stick!!
Time to head out kiddos and enjoy the white stuff (like I really had to twist their arms, haha)
Ivan of course was trying to eat it. His mouth was open the entire time trying to munch on snowflakes that were pelting his face
Paul came home from work early. The snow stopped, then melted, then started coming down again way harder then before. It snowed until about 10pm
And this morning we awoke to this
Our front yard
Sunrise on Mt. Lemmon
When the kids woke up I nearly force fed them their breakfasts so that we could get outside before it all melted. We were out the door by 8:15am
All Silas wanted to do was make and throw snowballs. He probably made at least 500 while we were out. 😉
and Ivan just giggled at every one. Especially at the ones that were thrown at him
Beautiful snow-covered Catalinas
By 9am most of the snow had melted off the trees. We made up for our missed run yesterday and ran our usual 4 mile loop. Lots of people were out. By the time we got back home there wasn’t too much snow left and it was getting harder and harder for Silas to find enough to make snowballs with. By 10:30 it had disappeared completely.
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