Snow Day

Last week we got a ton of snow.  It dumped inches & inches on us in just a couple days.

Every ounce of snow that we had gotten since November had melted.  There was even a day this month that Josh went out & raked, yes, raked the yard.

But all that unfallen snow was made up for in about two days.  This table had been bare two days before.

In two days I spent a total of 6 hours shoveling our short (but steep) driveway.  In fact, it snowed so much that the twins got a "snow day" off from school.  This is practically unheard of in Montana.  In my 18 years of schooling in Montana I got one snow day.

Knowing that this may be the only snow day they would ever get we did some extra fun stuff.

They built this snowman family, just from the snow on our deck (which had already been shoveled twice).

We made Christmas ornaments.

I know this sounds funny, but the twins had made these ornaments in class.  Unfortunately when we were packing up Christmas decorations they broke.

So we had to remake them.  We did them on plastic ornaments so that breaking wouldn't be a possibility.

And JoJo got to make one as well.

And of course there was more outside play with our overabundance of snow.  This is just one of the few piles I created with my hours of shoveling along the side of our driveway.  This mound represents the snow that sat around the edge of our van.  My back hurts just thinking about it.

Daddy help them build a snow tunnel through one of the hills.

All that snow does provide a good amount of entertainment.  But I'm happy that it's slowly melting away, it does not make life easy.  In fact, the first night of big snow Josh couldn't make it up our main road on his way home from work & had to turn around & go buy tire chains just to get home.

But all that snow provided a lot of excitement, an extra day home from school, an abundance of  hot chocolate, & a few extra moments of watching movies on the couch.  It will be a memorable day.