Another Snow Day

We have had quite the winter storm here over the past few days. Yesterday afternoon the sleet and freezing rain started and switched to snow at some point overnight. It was so bad that the base closed and Paco got the day off work--yeah! The boys got outside for some fun in the snow and Paco got to do a little shoveling as well :)

Throwing snowballs at us

He went face-first into a big pile of snow--on purpose!

It was pretty hard snow to sled in, but the driveway is just steep enough to make a good sledding hill even when it is covered in ice.

My favorite of the day--
My two silly guys!

Our First Snowy Day

Today's snowstorm would not have been anything when we lived in Boston, but in Ohio it was the first measurable snow of the season. Two and a half inches of snow is a ton to a three year old that is dying to get out and play. So this afternoon we got all bundled up and headed out to make snow angels, snow balls and attempt to make a snowman. He didn't quite understand that you need a ton more sticky snow to make a snowman, but I'm sure there will be more snow in our future to hopefully make that snowman.

Mommy and EJ playing in the snow

Snow Angel time!

Side by side Mommy and EJ snow angels. Nothing is more fun when you are almost seven months pregnant than trying to get up from making a snow angel :) All for the kiddo!

Ball Pit

This year Uncle Mike, Aunt Amber, Uncle Joe and Uncle Dan decided EJ needed a ball pit for Christmas. We set it up last weekend and it has been a huge hit! Thanks to all those mentioned for this super fun toy.

Bounce U

A few weekends ago we took EJ to play at Bounce U. It was the first time Paco was able to go with us and the two of them had a ton of fun. I think it was almost more fun for the big kid than the little kid.

EJ and Paco put on their protective boxing head gear. There were also gigantic boxing gloves, but they were bigger than EJ so they just jumped around and pretended to box.

EJ going down the big inflatable slide

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year Everyone! We hope you all had a fun and safe New Years Eve. I believe 2009 is going to be a very exciting one for the Sanchez Family with lots of changes in store. God willing, there will be a new job, house, a sold current house, a move and most importantly a new baby. Best wishes for everyone else as we start this new year.

Edited to note: For some reason the video screen is black when you load the page, but if you hit the play icon you will see a short 3 second video greeting from the little man.

Art Time

Santa brought EJ some new watercolor paints and paint dobbers in his stocking this year. EJ has been dying to try them out so yesterday we had some fun art time. He made four very beautiful pictures and was very proud of his work.

Painting with the watercolors

The first of the masterpieces

Making a dot picture with the dobbers