We've found Nemo...

Blizzard Nemo came starting yesterday (and is acutally still going), and while other areas of New England got a lot more snow than we have, we were still measuring in at about 24 inches. That's almost too much snow for the snow blower, and the end of the driveway must be shoveled by hand since that bank stands the same height as our mailbox. This morning Riley really wanted to go out with Chris and Caleb sort of wanted to go too. He has been having an aversion to boots all winter and I was actually planning last week to take his new boots back to the store since he wouldn't wear them and they will be too small next year. I didn't though, and managed to convince him into them today. He's a weird foot kids I guess. (Remember the socks and shoes at the beach all summer? Even when he switched from sneakers to water shoes, he still wanted to have socks - wet ones - on as well. Now whenever his socks are off - which is still rare - he's into "checkin' my toes" which means making sure the gunk gets cleaned out from between each toe. So gross!

Anyway, here are some pictures from last night and this morning.

Kids picked out their ownclothes for a snow day.

Out the back door last night showing drifts.

Using up some Pleasant Pond blueberries to pay homage to our buried blueberry bushes.

Almost buried mailbox

Covered cars

24 inches but some drifts go up to Chris's chest

Kids happy to be going out in the snow

Riley sitting on the snowbank at the end of the driveway

Caleb was not happy about being left alone.

Caleb on the big snow bank.

Today on the pond. Chris digging out the end of the driveway.