snowy Monday

Well this was a fun way to start the week!  A sky full of falling snow and a noon dismissal!  We went to Grandma and Grandpa's for the afternoon and enjoyed ourselves immensely!

The attempt to get all 5 in a train on a downhill sled run was only moderately successful, but fun nevertheless.

And when the sledding ended, it was dump truck time.

Today after school Isaac and John Paul didn't even come inside.  They just dropped their backpacks by the door and went straight to the yard.  (On snowy days they typically dismiss the younger elementary kids in snow pants and boots so they were dressed and ready!)

Julianna was out right after the boys, and then Luke too.  A yard full of fresh snow is pretty great stuff and these guys played hard.

A little before 5pm I glanced out the window and discovered my boys were doing their own version of snow removal... unfortunately their efforts were a tad misdirected!  I poked my head out the front door and congratulated them on all their hard work.  Can you imagine how many shovels they toted to build that size pile in the middle of the driveway?

Unfortunately, our van wasn't designed to clear that size snow drift, so I had to break the news that the mountain wasn't permanent.  By this time our neighbor had also texted, "ummmm, do you see what your boys are up to??"  We both laughed.  Thankfully it's nothing a shovel couldn't handle - though I wasn't originally planning to clear snow while the oven preheated!