Anton Declares January the Month to Expect Snow!

Having listened to the children lament over the lack of snow, they awoke with cheers of excitement when our three inch covering began. Before they could venture out, we had to complete two quarterly finals. This created some urgency and they completed them faster than ever. It also gave the snow a chance to build up as an half inch is not great sledding.

With their finals completed,

they had only to enjoy nature's playground for the rest of the day.

Isabella quickly pulled out the sled and they were off!

Katie realizing this must be some kind of human fun,

wanted to be in the middle of the action, literally!

Then it was back up for more trips down!

Now if they can teach the dogs to pull them up and not try to eat the rope it would be perfect.

They played in the snow for about 5 hours! This last picture was taken when it was getting dark, notice the refection of her safety stripe! Isabella was trying to persuade me to believe it was not really getting close to dinner time!

During dinner, Anton became very concerned with his being so very tired. He began to hypothesize about a sugar problem (we have a friend who was recently diagnosed with diabetes). I laughed saying it might have nothing to do with five full hours of romping in the snow! He smirked and agreed before going up to take a nice warm shower!