Oh the Weather Outside is Frightful . . .

First a few pictures that were on the camera and hadn't been uploaded yet ~

Random picture of Jack ~


Making Valentine's Day cookies for Family Home Evening ~


Beth in the birthday crown she has worn almost every day since her birthday. She says since it hasn't been anyone else's birthday that it's still hers ~


Megan made dinner by herself last night using her Paula Deen Kid's Cookbook. She decided to make porcupine balls, which are meatballs with rice in them. When the meatballs cook, the meat sort of shrinks and the rice expands and ends up sticking out all over so the meatballs look like little porcupines. We had green beans with it too. It was delicious!


We woke up this morning to screams from Jack's room where Megan, Beth and Jack had been sleeping. SNOW!!! Everywhere!!! School was not canceled for some reason, but we decided to keep the kids home anyway. They haven't missed much school this year and they don't usually get a chance to play in the snow down here. Rob decided to stay home too, but is checking his emails and voicemails from home. A large portion of his clients are on the east coast, so he has only had one client contact him so far today. Good day to stay home! The girls' school is actually sending everyone home early as it's still snowing and we have over six inches already. It's supposed to snow for about another 12 hours, so it looks like we might actually end up with a foot or more!

We started off our snow holiday with oatmeal topped with whipped cream ~


We dug out the snow gear and sorted through it. We had lots of stuff for Jack, some stuff for Beth, a few things for Kylie and nothing for Megan. Granted all the stuff for Jack was girl stuff, but he didn't mind :) We pieced together enough stuff for all four kids to semi-comfortably play in the snow. Megan ended up wearing my boots, which are much to big for her, as we could only find one of hers. Rob even bundled up and all of us headed into the backyard. We had a snowball fight and then Rob and the kids built a huge snowman (about 6.5 ft tall) that Rob named "Mick" due to his slightly crooked nose and smile. Apparently Rob thought he resembled an Irish boxer.


















Simon LOVES the snow. He loves it so much that we had to put him inside while the kids were outside. He kept knocking Jack down and trying to play tug of war with everyone's gloves.


We're making tuna melts for lunch and this afternoon we'll have a hot cocoa party.

Yay for snow holidays!!!