Snow came our way...

Ryan was on-call and when he called home to check in he said his attending was stuck in the snow and he did not know when he would get off. (Ughhhhh... for me. Such long days, but hard on him too I know.) They sent the students home the day earlier and so he was pretty much working as a one-man team. He slept almost 4 hours and hadn't showered in 48 hours and when he got home I made him lunch and he did his wind-down routine of watching some EPSN game and then got up to shower and go to bed, I thought. But, I realized he put on his coat and went outside to play with Tanner. We got a foot or so on our driveway.


Putting this cute cone head happily to work...

And testing Ryan's fort-making skills. Tanner said he and the boy across the street did the base and "helped some". From inside the house I kept hearing a "wack" and assumed they were having a snowball fight.

The "wack" was the snow being packed into the cubes and the worker was 90% Ryan.

And the boys had fun and the fort/igloo/castle (says Emma) did not collapse on them.

But, Ryan collapsed in bed. I noticed he took some advil or something and when I came up to bed he was snoring. Was it the long shift or the endless shovels of snow? Maybe both. But, we have such a good dad in our home. He always finds time to play and work hard and our kids are blessed to have his example.