snow painting

Thanks to Pinterest we tried snow painting this year. We made colored water and the kids went outside to paint on the snow.  We discovered a few ways for it to not work, and some that worked better.

 We should have used squirt bottles like it said to, but we had fun anyway

Isabelle wrote Olympic ceremonies

final snowfall

Pretty pictures of our snow after it had finished

snow day activities

Making their Valentines for school,

 adding snow to our ramen noodles

Daddy daughter shoveling

but of course with a hot chocolate break

Gideon cleaning the fireplace so we can make a fire

 Checkers tournament

and Tobie's normal daily activity

The big snow storm starts

We had a really big snow storm the other day, I think 9+inches, and then another 4 a couple of days later.  We got 3 snow days off because of this

The kids didn't play long, because it was too cold, but long enough to eat some,

get wet,

Throw snowballs at me through the window,

Isabelle volunteered to shovel the driveway for money.  She worked very hard and Ryan ended up helping her when he got home, but she didn't shovel before Gideon got a chance to ride his bike down the piled up driveway!

he was cheering for himself here

celebrate

This was the extent of my valentine decorations.

ryan made cookies. 

 Gideon and Grandpa jeff played Monopoly while they were visiting.  Glad it wasn't me!