Last Thursday it started snowing and it didn't stop. It snowed non stop for a few days. When looking at the weather forecast it said 100% chance of precipitation every single hour for 24 hours. My children went to bed Thursday night praying for a snow day on Friday. Their prayers were answered. My phone rang at 6:00 AM with a recorded message saying school was indeed canceled. Thank goodness! I crawled back in bed and turned my alarm off. My kids were a little shocked when they woke up on their own later that morning. Once they realized why I hadn't woken them up for school they started celebrating.
Here is Steve during one of his many snow-blower passes on the driveway. Within a few hours the driveway was completely covered again.
Zac and Aubrey and Addy built a snow fort.
They stayed in here for hours and even took their luncheon in the fort.
When I went out to take pictures I saw that the 3 of them were in the fort and several feet behind them Emily was sitting against this bale of hay. I told them they should be nice and let Emily in their shelter. They said that there wasn't enough room. I told them they could scoochie over and make room and they would stay warmer all bunched up. Zac told me that they asked her to help them build the shelter and she instead chose to stay inside watching TV. He said, "MOM! That's a basic fundamental lesson on preparing! We did the work and she stayed inside where it was warm and watched TV and now that she is outside and cold she wants to be in our shelter! If we let her in she won't learn anything!" I found it completely impossible to argue with that logic so I went back in the house where it was warm and left poor Emily leaning against her hay.
OK, I don't know why this child has her head buried in the snow. I will say this though. I have learned from this snow storm and my childrens desire to swim through the snow all day long, that my children are most certainly Utahans. The blood that flows through their veins in not like my Texas blood. They are cut out for things such as burying their head in the snow. I am not.
Steve and the kids decided to pull out the 4 wheelers and have some fun. I took pictures from the warmth of my house.
There is a bottom strip on that fencing that is a few feet off the ground that is completely covered up by the snow.
Aubrey knocked this huge icicle off the house. I am glad she didn't break a window or better yet, her head in the process!
A few days ago I went to wake my kids up for school and found this cute owl sleeping on our deck.
The snow is still here. I think it probably will be for a while. We are having some pretty darn cold weather around here. My street is still covered with snow a week later (Um, hello! Snow plows?). And my kids are still having fun in the snow. We truly are walking in a winter wonderland!
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