Snowed In!!!

  As most of us know it has been a very mild/warm winter. We got about 12 inches of snow back at the end of October and then nothing since!  Poor Scarlett is pretty upset about this but that all changed early this morning when everyone was sleeping.  My parents left for Vermont yesterday morning so its been just me and the munchkins all day.  Zachary isn't a good nap taker (but he sleeps GREAT at night!) so poor Scarlett hasn't had me out there with her to play with.  We haven't built that snowman or gone sledding (not really sure if it's good packing snow anyways).  But none the less we are having a great day!  Every time Zachary took his "nap" we would get all dressed and head on out into the white outdoors.  She had a lot of fun helping me shovel but I never got much done during the day since Zach kept waking up.  By the way my parents driveway is just under a quarter of a mile up hill...or down hill which ever end your looking at.  After the kids went to bed tonight I managed to shovel maybe a third of the driveway...maybe just a quarter though!
  Anyways we got a few snow angels and catching of the snowflakes on the tongue in too!  Inside we enjoyed story reading of course, a warm fire, hot cocoa, cookie making (tried a nutella peanut butter recipe and I personally thought they were just a little dry but Scarlett of course loved them), coloring in coloring books, puzzles, and candy land.  So I am pretty much tired and might I add sore! I am not sure the last time I shoveled so much and if you looked at the driveway you wouldn't think I did much! Oh well. 

That is all for now, I am off to relax and enjoy a tall glass of water! Enjoy a few pictures from today:

Zacharoo playing in the basket

 Little frogs in the snow...I love Zach's face in this.  Scarlett was having a tough time holding him and staying up with the snow suit, ha!

 Taking a break from the snow and cleaning out the bowl from our cookie making

 Swinging away

While I was making her dinner and cleaning up a bit Scarlett was outside, when I went out to check on her she was sitting in the snow eating it.  This is what she said "mommy! This snow is sooo yummy, don't you want to try some? It is always good to try new things you know?" That's my girl!

Warming up with a stack of books by the fire, what's better then that?