Snow Day Favorite Things

A few of my favorite things...

• Lazy mornings with nowhere to go, which means coffee and devotions by the fireplace
• The way snow looks
• Red noses and rosy cheeks
• The kids' faces while they're sledding
• Pancakes made by my husband
• Watching a movie with the family
• Chicken corn chowder for lunch
• Playing Super Mario on the Nintendo with Brianna while the boys napped
• Having a sledding competition with Stephen (even though I lost)
• Listening to Brianna scream every time she went down a hill
• Watching Brianna figure out that she enjoyed sledding backwards
• Hunter making tracks for almost an entire half hour by dragging his sled behind him
• Making snow angels
• Eating snow cream
• Hunter's idea to put sprinkles on the snow cream
• Pulled pork barbecue in the crockpot all day, making the house smell incredible
• Lots of Uno and Old Maid
• Making sugar cookies in the shapes of snowmen and snowflakes to commemorate the event of an official snow day

The day BEFORE the snow day... anticipating the snow's arrival:

Okay, now it's officially snowing. Bundle up!

Oops, not used to taking pictures with gloves on.

Snow angels: Mine's on top, Bri's is on the left and Hunter's is on the right

The obligatory (and delicious) snow cream:

The cookies: (highly decorated thanks to Grandma presenting us with lots of varieties of sprinkles!)

Brianna sledding - 11 seconds



Hunter sledding - 25 seconds (Beware - at the end I say "Yay!" and it's super loud!)





Hunter sledding - 15 seconds



Brianna sledding - 25 seconds (watch out - another big laugh from me at the end!)




Brianna telling our "plan" for tomorrow - 21 seconds (she was so adorable I just had to video tape it but then we got sidetracked by her cuteness)



Brianna just being her cute self - "The Plan" take two - 2 minutes, 15 seconds

Want #4

I want more snow days. Although, technically today wasn't a snow day, it definitely could have been. At least a "delay" day. Around 2:30 this morning I got up to use the bathroom, and of course I checked outside to see if it was snowing. At that time, we already had about an inch or more. I actually thought it was later than that and assured Stephen we would probably both get a two hour delay. After that, I just couldn't go back to sleep. I'm not sure why - I wasn't particularly excited about the snow or anything since I can't do anything fun with it. Sometime around 3:50 I gave up and went into the living room to play some Need for Speed and read, hoping it would make me sleepy. No such luck. I ended up reading until Stephen left for work around 5:30, and then I left the couch to go back to the bedroom and try my luck once more. I did fall back asleep around 6, only to get up feeling surprisingly refreshed around 6:45. And no luck with a delay or anything.

These are my two pictures from the snow a couple of weeks ago:

These are my few pictures from this morning:

This is what a real snow looks like. This is one example from Boone a few years ago:

I miss those snows.

Snow pictures finally

Not so great pictures from last weekend's snow "storm". I wish I had taken more, but you know how it is. You get caught up in the games, and food, and curling up by the fire!

I reaaaally didn't wanna go to work this morning:

Luckily, Jessie made fettucini alfredo for me and Stephen. (Mine is the bigger portion)

I guess we're the only people who go skeet shooting in the snow:

I can't stand the mouth part of dogs, but the shoes part is so hilarious! Make sure you watch the last video, if you watch no others!!! I bought her those booties a couple of years ago and it cracks me up everytime she walks in them!