Romantic and Snowy Days

Oh what do you do in the wintertime, when all the world is white????

Our first couple of snow days in January were kind of fun. Chris came home early from work, I manned the cocoa-latte machine while they boys all bundled up and played.

Here the boys are shoveling the frozen lake! We figured when there were kids in the middle of the lake on their 4-wheelers it was probably safe enough to walk on. We had a few weeks there when I don't think the highs got out of the teens. Brrr. Colder than Germany!

This shows how awesome the zoom is on my new camera. I took this from the warm comfort of our house -- about 30 feet away.

We had a couple of crazy weeks in February. The first snowstorm blew on on Tuesday, Feb 9. School was called off for three days straight, with a 2-hour delay on Friday. Good thing because if I'd been cooped up inside for one more day with 24 boxes of Valentine's candy things could have gotten a little nuts. Then came round 2. Streets were not even cleared from the previous storm when we got hammered. This meant 4 snow days for Cooper. Chris stayed home the first day of the storm because we were on a Level 1 Snow emergency (emergency personnel only on the roads or you can get a ticket). The following day was also a Level 1, but Chris legitimately had patients in pain and went into work. By the end of the week we were getting a little cabin fever!!!

At first the snow was a novelty and the boys just wanted to play, play, play even though it was freeeeeezing.

Soon we were doing more indoor play time (i.e. chasing, wrestling and other boy craziness), movies and free Wii (Cooper usually has to earn stickers, but for sanity's sake, we waved the sticker requirements for those weeks).

And, if you have the coolest dad in the world maybe he will build you a three-foot high fort with every mattress, pillow, and blanket in the house and you can jump off the bunk bed. I love the look of complete elation on Cooper's face. They had so much fun jumping!

In between snowy weeks was Valentine's Day. I wanted to stay in, so we fixed a romantic dinner and watched a movie. Sometimes the simplest things in life are the best.