The Adventures of Izzy-monster: Snow Day!
Fresh Powder
You may have heard of the east coast getting hit with this arctic blast. It was cold enough to cause some freezing temperatures and eventually some snow. Actually, as I type this, it is still snowing. The neighbor just cleared his drive way and in a few hours, it will be covered in snow again. Ciri got the day off due to the road conditions – I think she’ll probably get tomorrow off as well, or at least go in late.
Snowy roads
I drove to the grocery store at Ciri’s friendly request – she was craving homemade chili. I tried to take the truck, but because of the inclined driveway, I couldn’t drive out; the wheels would just spin over the ice. I was able to get the Sentra out, though. Kind of emasculates my poor little Pin-stripe Alpha. 
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The roads weren’t too bad – we’ve driven under worse conditions back in Germany. Once I got back to the house, I started building a snowman.
SnoRS
I tried to form bricks from a bin of kitty litter, but they would fall apart. I was going for a robot snowman. In the end I gave up and just mish-mashed the snow, the kitty litter bin, and some planters together. I call it my Snowman-robot-sentry, or SnoRS. SnoRS sits near the walkway, making him the perfect sentry for the house. (I just went to check on him and poor SnoRS is dead. He fell apart. Sigh.)
As I was building SnoRS, Ciri came out with a bundled up baby. We had a quick snowball fight, that ended short of declaring a winner because of very, very cold hands. It was fun, though. The last time Ciri and I had a snowball fight was when I first visited her in Germany.
Bundled baby
Izzy had a great time as well. Some snow fell on the tray of her stroller – the entire time Ciri and I were chucking snowballs, Izzy was trying to scrape some snow into her mouth. It was funny watching her lunging for snowflakes as they fell in front of her.
After our snowball fight, we broker her out of the stroller and bundled her under our sweaters. We walked around the snow and took pictures. Finally, I laid on the snow and made my very first ever snow angel. It came out looking very angel-y, even for a snow newbie like myself.
Check out my Flickr page for the rest of the pics. Got lots of ‘em.