Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow!!

Wow!  It all started last Thursday when it began sleeting mid-morning.  The schools had cancelled before it even started because they knew how bad it was predicted to be.  After ice, and almost a foot of snow on top of that, we ended up having Daddy home for 6 straight days!!!  We loved it now, but will miss him in June, when he's still in school....  These are some memories we made on this snowy week at home:

Thursday night, when the snow had just begun, the kids were all ready to go out (even though we only had a few inches at this point)!

Callie checking it out...

First step in the snow!

"What is this I'm standing in??"

As soon as Caeden was out, he had to throw 

his first snow ball of the season!

Clearing off the fire pit

Callie just observing Caeden...

And...faceplant!

She was outside for about 15 minutes and fell down over & over!

The funny thing was she loved it!  Each time

she would stand up just smiling!

If we tried to pick her up and carry her,

she'd get mad!  She wanted to walk by herself,

even if it meant falling multiple times. 

Friday we started off the morning by making these snowman ornaments, out of marshmallows!  Both kids loved this!  Then it was more playtime in the snow!  And we finished off the day by playing lots of Caeden's board games!

Caeden working hard on his ornament!

Even Callie was able to push the marshmallows into the hole! 

This was our snow when it was about 6 inches deep.

It continued to snow until we had 10-11 inches!

 

Sledding down our driveway!

First time!

Huge icicle hanging from our roof

After awhile, Callie was happy just 

watching from her car!

Family picture!

Cleaning off Daddy's car

After all that snow, we were exhausted

and needed some snuggle time!

Saturday we stayed inside and took it easy.  Just played, cleaned house, etc.  But we did have friends over for dinner that night!  That was fun for us to see some other people and for Caeden to have some friends to play with!

We were going to try to go to church on Sunday, but after our friends who came over for dinner said the roads were really bad and they shouldn't have come over, we decided to stay home Sunday morning.  Mommy did some crafts that she had been meaning to do for awhile, we played some more games, and ate lots of food!  That afternoon, Caeden & Daddy went sledding with some friends - and then they all came back for pizza and a night at home with friends!

Caeden with his buddies!

Monday was another day at home!  Daddy went up to his school to work for most of the day.  But Ella and her mommy came over to play, so that was fun!  We ate lunch together, and Caeden got to see his greatly-missed friend!  That night was our annual Polar Express Night!  We read the book, put on our PJs, made some hot cocoa, and watched the movie!

Today is Tuesday and (we think) our last snow day!   The snow was less powdery by this point, so we decided to go out and see if we could finally build a snowman!

Callie trying to help!

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The finished product!

For some reason, Caeden didn't want him to have eyes!

Long post!  But this has been such a fun 6 days together and we absolutely loved it!  I know lots of people were going stir-crazy at home!  But since I'm home with my kids every day, it wasn't any different than the usual!  I just got to have my husband home too!  Which made it even better!!  Oh, how I love snow days!