Snow Day

After a very warm fall, we've had a sudden burst of freezing cold weather. FREEZING!! It started snowing on Thursday morning and it didn't stop until Friday late afternoon. It just snowed and snowed and snowed. By the end we had about 8.5 inches on the sidewalk and there were 11 inches on top of the car. Whoa! I've never seen so much snow ever. Boise even cancelled school which I guess they seldom do.
It's very beautiful and very fun and it makes me awfully grateful for our heater and waterproof gloves.

We spent a lot of the day watching the snow come down

And then we went out to play! 

She was so happy to get icicles. She remembered playing with them last year and couldn't wait to do it again.  She tried to use it like a telescope like Olaf does.  It didn't work.

Here she is burying herself in snow.  She's wearing her footie pjs under all of this, with a snow bib on, boots on her feet, a parka, and waterproof mittens that go halfway up her arm. She stayed dry, and apparently warm. Those darn mittens kept coming off until I finally put rubber bands around her wrists and everybody was happy.

Look at the snow on the roof of the clubhouse!

Beautiful view down the street. The roads were so covered in snow and ice. By the end of the day the cars were just lumps of white along the edges of the road.

It wasn't great snowball snow, too cold and powdery, but that didn't mean we didn't try. We threw a lot of snow at eachother. 

Snow swimming. 

Here she's building a snow fort with the neighbor kids. The icicles go all along the edges for defense. Amy used the icicles as "levers that make her machine go"

jumping off of the stump into the snow

oooof.

And rolling onto the sidewalk. So much for shoveling.