Wednesday January 3rd they closed school early for potential snow which canceled Brooke’s class because she is afternoon Kindergarten.  Around 8pm on Wednesday it started to snow and it continued to do so until about 3pm on Thursday.  It snowed about 10 inches with much larger snow drifts.  We spent the first day enjoying the powder, shoveling the driveway, doing a bit of backyard sledding, attempting to make a snowman in powder, making snow angels, lots of snow tasting and having a fire and an snow cold beer.  I created Snow School, to keep the kids busy with age appropriate work for each of them, and snowflake crafts which we did Friday.  Then we drove out a bit to a nearby park to try some sledding, unfortunately the wind was so bad we couldn’t stay long so we ended up seeing how bad the roads were and had lunch out as a family.  The kids then enjoyed playing in the snow around the house.  Sometime this weekend a snow fort was built, the front step sled path perfected.  We played outside everyday until Monday when the snow was supposed to snow melt so we went to the trampoline place instead, however, nothing melted Monday.  Yesterday the kids went outside with AJ when it was 50 degrees and made a snowman out of the melting snow.  We are now home 8 days with the snow and school has been canceled for the last 6 days and it’s not looking like school will be back tomorrow. Send us warm thoughts!

Today we took the Polar Express tram through the NBG lights.  The kids got to see Santa and tell him what they wanted for Christmas, but of course he already got their note. 🙂