Mr. & Mrs. Link

But baby, it’s cold outside…

No kidding! I’m not sure how many inches we’ve accumulated over the past day or so, but our lawn chairs in the back are nearly covered, and the snow is up to our windows! Being a California girl, I never grew up with snow. There would be the occasional trip to the mountains where snow lived from time to time, for some sledding, snowball fights, and restaurant trips for hot chocolate, but it was never a way of life for us. Therefore I have never really known how to live in and handle snow. Although, to my credit, living in Maryland for the past six years and being with a Montana man for the past eight, I feel I have a decent handle on snow these days. I was wrong.

The snow started at some point while we were watching the Montana Grizzlies game in Arlington VA. There was probably 2 inches of snow on our car and the ground. It continued to snow the whole way home, and apparently through the night. When we woke up, there was like 6 inches of snow on the ground and maybe more. It snowed all of yesterday and by yesterday evening, the snow had to be somewhere in the ballpark of 25 inches. We finally went out to play in it and it was amazing. I have never even seen anything like it. Over two feet of freshly fallen powder covered our condo area. It was quite beautiful. We laughed. We frollicked. We made snowangels. We unsucessfully made snowballs to throw at eachother (the powder just wouldn’t stick together). It was pretty awesome. We had a snow day!

I woke up this morning and it looks like it finally stopped snowing. Everywhere is just piled with white. The sun is out and it looks like a beautiful day. I tried to convince Jed to strap on our skis and just slide around Columbia. Apparently our skis aren’t made for that sort of thing. I must say, I think I’m finally coming around to this snow thing.

Enjoy some clips from our romping adventure.