The Snow Fort

You have to excuse all the snow pictures...it just doesn't happen that much around here so we get excited. There are snowmen all over the neighborhood. Even families who have their kids in junior high and high school, still have snowmen in their yards!

Since it was a snow day, we had a lot of time to do nothing. (I actually had a lot planned to do while Courtney was at preschool and Ethan was at school, but some things just don't go as planned.) So we bundled up and went outside to play in the cold stuff. You can tell that we have lived in warm weather for a while because we don't have water proof gloves for the kids and Courtney refuses to wear pants (at least I got her in boots today). But we had a lot of fun.

We made a snowman in the front yard, but when Ethan and I finally got it good, Courtney knocked him down. The last snowman we did in the front was destroyed by the neighbor boy, so we haven't had luck with snowmen.

When Courtney went down for a nap, Ethan and I took some small garbage cans and built a snow fort in the back yard. I wanted to make it higher, but his hands were wet and freezing and I didn't want to do it all by myself. But we had enough snow in the backyard that it could have been really high. It was a lot of fun and brought back a lot of memories of making snow forts when I was a kid.

The only downer of the day is that we ran out of cocoa mix! Actually, I'm sure there is some more downstairs, but I wasn't in the mood to go looking for it. So we ended up having popcorn after we played in the snow, which the kids thought was just as good.

Ethan prayed that school would be back tomorrow.

Here are some photos: