Snow Day!

So - the kids did end up having today off - but schools on for tomorrow. They start Christmas break on Wednesday. We have a total of about 20 inches, 15 or so from last night and 5 from the last 2 little bouts of snow fall.

The girls had a blast sledding, fort building and snow shoeing today. We had blue sunny skies and it was a great winter day!

We're expected to be clear again tomorrow with more snow heading our way on Wednesday and then again next weekend.

Funny note - the UPS trucks are having a hard time getting around because of the large snowbanks along driveways so our UPS driver told me today that they are being mostly dispatched in UPS minivans. :)

Our neighbor had a refrigerator delivered this afternoon and the store delivery truck for that could get no where near the house - so the truck parked on the street and the unloaded the fridge onto a dolly and wheeled it down the street and up the driveway to their door.

It's still coming!

The wind has abated for a while - but the snow keeps on a coming! This was the midnight picture... the photo of the snow at our sliding door fails to impress because we turned the heater on and it's actually melting agains the door. :) So - swing pictures it is. Dan and I went out and shoveled and we easily have 14 inches right now - and the snow started at 11am! The weather report says we could see another 2-4 inches... school hasn't been cancelled yet.

It's kind of a storm...

Apparently we're having a thundersnowstorm - with freezing fog too. The snow started here at about 11am and at 7pm I'd say we have about a foot of snow. No sign of slowing yet either...

The pictures on the left are from 5pm and the pictures on the right are from 7pm...

Lesson learned

I've recently learned that I need to give things another shot... even if it sucked the first time.

A long, long time ago I received a very cool Pampered Chef cookie press. When we lived in Arizona I attempted making cookies with my press. Let's just say it was a terrible experience.... melting cookies, nothing sticking and it ended up being a mess.

I decided that it was worth giving it a go - because darn it - other people can do it! So, the girls and I whipped up a batch of spritz dough... colored a pretty green and then loaded it into the cookie press.

Oh my goodness how much fun! Adorable little tree cookies in just mere seconds. The girls each got to shoot dough into little trees and squeal in delight.

They baked up great and are just awesome. Now I can't wait for other reasons to create more press cookies!!

Finally.......

We have snow people!

I woke up this morning to three little girls squealing that there was snow on the ground and it was still SNOWING!

Emma is by far the most excited mostly because I don't think she remembers snow - and certainly doesn't appear to remember how much she hated it last year.

So today begins my insane work schedule so if possible you will see me even less than before... or maybe more if I need a brain vent outlet.

I will sit up in my toasty office (this is by far the coldest room in the house and Dan bought me a little room heater for under my desk!) and plug away... watching big puffy snowflakes fall...

She did it!

Anna was so proud of herself.... and when they put the picture of her holding her hair on the wall she just beamed.

She loves her new do - she says it is exactly what she always wanted. She clapped and laughed as they cut 11 inches of hair off of her head!

So... check it out!