weather

we had a pretty big snow fall friday. i'm not sure the exact amount, but when my mom went to measure outside our door, it was something like 9 inches. this is crazy because the first part of the week was sunny and warm with temperatures in the 60s. as one of the news anchormen said something like this, "some places have changing weather through seasons, ours changes through the week."

these photos are from right outside our door. in the first photo you can see the hill where todd went sledding a couple of times. we used kim's idea of a cookie sheet, as we don't have a sled. todd lucked out and a couple of friends were out at the same time and shared their equipment with him, so he didn't have to use his "ghetto sled" as much. in the second photo, to the left of the fence, is the ruler mom melanson used to measure.
mom melanson was so sweet and baked and baked friday morning. i was her assistant. we made a ton of brownies and rice crispie treats to give to neighbors and todd's work for valentines day.
well, then todd and i tried to get him to work. we had a very scary experience where our car slid down the hill a bit, turning 180 degrees, and he and one of our maintenance workers laid down dirt and pushed on the car while i gunned it in reverse to try to get back into our parking lot. needless to say, todd didn't make it into work friday. that left us with more treats than we had bargained for. i will have to catch todd's office on st. patricks day i guess.