Stormy Weather

After we got back from Florida it was definitely cooler than when we left.  Then we had a few days of crazy weather - big hail and crazy heavy rain and thick fog.  The hail and rain day happened to coincide with crazy hair day at school.  These two kiddos don't have a lot of hair so we were somewhat limited.  :)  Anna wanted to be a unicorn.

I tried to spike Matthew's but it just ended up looking curly.

Maybe he has some of my curly hair genes.

After I took Matthew to school I went to the store.  While we were in there it started raining and hailing.  LOUD and for a long time.  When we left the store at first I thought it had snowed 'cause I was seeing pileups of white on things, mostly on cars or at the end of drain pipes.  It turned out to just be hail.  Weird.

 From far away it looked like snow drifts.  Snow drifts in very specific places.

So the weather was weird, but luckily we made these tasty cookies (recipe courtesy of Lisa).  Very cozy and autumn-like.

 Yum

Of course, when I had to pick up Matthew it was raining buckets.  It was the worst experience.  I had to park super far away and wade through a foot of water in the street.  I wore my water proofiest shoes, but kept wishing I had rain boots.  I decided the way to keep Grant the driest was to wear him in the baby carrier with a coat and umbrella.  Poor Anna had her rainboots and umbrella but I couldn't carry her the whole time 'cause I was carrying Grant...plus an umbrella, a raincoat to try and cover Grant with and a raincoat and umbrella for Matthew.  Anna had so much trouble getting through the deep rushing water and when I picked her up her rainboots kept falling off.  Usually we pick Matthew up at the playground and this was our first inclement weather pick up so I wasn't sure where to go.  We ended up going to the wrong place so we had to wade/slosh all around the school unnecessarily.  Anna was crying, Grant was crying.  I felt like crying.  Did I mention it was pouring?  We were all soaked.  Finally we got Matthew and got back to the car.  It was unpleasant.  I went home and ate a few cookies.

 

The amazing thing was that Matthew's chosen hairstyle (he finally decided on mohawk) held up through the super rain.  He did have a raincoat with a hood and an umbrella.  So I guess that did the trick.  If only my hair had looked so put together after all that.   At least it didn't hail while we were doing the pick up. 

And that storm gave us the first snow of the season up on Pike's Peak.  I don't know if I'm ready for snow again.  I'm kinda missing having nine months of summer.  :)