Snow Day!

Yay! It snowed and snowed and snowed so hard today that we got sent home at 2:30 when reports started coming in about the freeway being closed and the white-out driving conditions. Yay for white-outs! (And wipe-outs)When I got to C's school their numbers were dropping fast and he was so happy to go home early (usually it's like pulling teeth to get him in the car at 5pm) It was an awesome treat to go home early enough to play in the snow while it was still light out and still snowing.

We really wanted to make a snowman, but it was just getting too cold and powdery, so we settled for a "snow spider". He looks more like an octopus to me, but we tried.

And of course we did our shoveling. We got everyone's front steps clear and salted (a lot of good it did, the wind came up about an hour later and buried us all in drifts again).

Of course the shovel makes a pretty decent snow launcher. Which just might explain the, uh, duct tape. Duct tape fixes everything!

And the very best part of a good heavy snow is of course, SNOW CONES! Mmmm, just so long as you don't make the lemon ones. Or root beer, that would be gross.