Playing hooky

On Wednesday, it snowed.  Can you believe that?  And it wasn't just a couple of small flurries, it was blizzard-ish and dropped nine inches in our yard!  So Jeremy called into the office, realized there weren't enough patients to go around and asked the other doctor to help him out a bit so he could play in the snow.  I'm so glad the other dentist said yes and let Jeremy play!  Before breakfast we dug out all of our snow clothes, gloves, and boots and went outside to play.  I mean, when this is what you're greeted with when you wake up with more coming down, can you really say no? 

McKenzie wasn't quite sure what to make of it-well, what to make of her snow gear-but she sat outside diligently watching Jeremy and Cambrie play. 

They had a special mission to knock all of the snow off the trees before the branches broke.  We got lucky and our trees weren't damaged, but a lot of our neighbors have branches piled high in their front yards.  I'm just glad that the sled Jeremy was throwing through the trees didn't get stuck in the trees.  That would have made a great conversation piece for our neighbors.

Cambrie remembered how to make snow angels,

and McKenzie's pumpkin tipped his hat to her performance. 

When it came time to shovel our walk, we realized that we don't own a snow shovel.  Oops!  I guess we need that now that we're homeowners huh?  So Jeremy used his shoes and just kicked the snow off.  Later that day he did run to the store to pick up a shovel and used it to get off all the new accumulation from that afternoon. 

Jeremy and Cambrie, still before breakfast, went to the backyard to build a fort.  They ended up constructing two slides.  One that went simply straight down, and the other swirled underneath the first slide into a tunnel.  Cambrie thought it was awesome and tried going down the top slide every way imaginable-on her bum, on a sled, on her belly, and backwards.  

McKenzie couldn't be convinced to go through that thing without a hand from Mom or Dad. 

But I guess from the eyes of a one-and-a-half year old, it does look pretty intimidating!

After all the fun the girls warmed up with some neighbor friends with a cup of hot cocoa using their new M & M hot cocoa mugs.  Now, just a few days later the snow is melting and fall has returned.  I sure hope we get more of these storms, because playing hooky is just too much fun.