Another Snow Day

I woke up this morning, and it wasn't snowing.  But I checked online to see if the kids had school.  Both schools were closed in anticipation of today's snow storm.  I told Daddy about the school closures and he said "Okay."  Luckily, he was scheduled off today because he worked on Saturday.  I got ready and went to work.  As I was leaving, John woke up and walked downstairs.  "Is it a stay at home day?"  he asked us.  We explained that it was a school day but school was closed because it was snowing (it had started snowing by this point).  He was super excited about no school!

After working a few hours, I came home to find Daddy making the kids lunch.  We had lunch and the kids played for a little bit.  Then I bundled them up and we all went outside to play.  I practically had to beg John to come outside with us.  He kept saying "I'll just watch you guys."  After bundling the kids up (that takes forever), we went outside and started to play.  The snow was good snowball/snowman snow.  I attempted to make a few small snowmen, but Gilly-zilla smashed them all.  John and I had a little snowball fight and the Gillian got bored.  "Smashing makes me tired.  I go inside."  Johnny and I decided to go in the backyard to play and Gillian's attitude changed.  We went out back and the kids went right to their playground.  They had to go down the slide and play on the swings.  After awhile, Gillian and I got tired and we went inside to play.  John stayed outside for another half hour after that.  He kept himself busy playing on the swings and clearing off the deck.  For someone who didn't want to go outside, he stayed out for a long time.

At dinner, I asked everyone "What was your favorite part of the day?"  John said "I think you know!  It was the snowball fight!"  Gillian said "Daddy.  Daddy and John." Overall, a pretty awesome snow day.

   

the snowman

I ran out this afternoon to do a few errands and I was surprised to see the kids and Daddy in the front yard.  As I pulled in the driveway, I rolled the window down and asked "What are you guys doing?"  Gillian smiled and said "We's making a snowman!"  We attempted to make a snowman on Friday when we were out in the snow.  But the snow was too dry.  It wasn't good packing snow.  It had warmed up today and the snow melted a little and made it easier to make a snowman.  Daddy and John worked on making the body of the snowman, while Gillian just walked around.  I helped her find a couple of sticks for arms and she told me "We need a carrot for him's nose!"  I asked Daddy "What else do we need?"  Daddy rattled off a list of items and I ran into the house.  I remembered that a few years ago Grandma gave us a snowman kit.  I found the kit in Gillian's closet and I went back outside to my family.  John immediately questioned me "What's in the box?"  I told him to bring it to Daddy and then he could open it up.  Inside were all the pieces to make a perfect snowman, a hat, a scarf, eyes, carrot nose, a pipe, buttons and a mouth.  Finally our snowman was complete.  John was so proud.