Snow Day

On what was supposed to be the last day of school for Miss Alli before break,

we woke up to a blanket of white snow, which was still coming down.

We knew it was likely that school would be cancelled but G and I got up to find out.

Nothing on the news about LCS but the school district was delayed 2 hours.

Since it was a half day for us, we figured it was cancelled but still didn't know.

Finally, a little after 6 a.m., we got the email . . . school cancelled.

We knew Alli was NOT going to be happy as it was the day of her Christmas party

and BOTH Mommy and Daddy were going to be there to help with cookie and ornament decorating.

So we did what any good parents would do, we decided not to wake her! HA!

I was in the shower around 8ish when Alli came busting in . . .

"Mommy, it's 8!"  She knows we have to be at school at 8:10.

I asked her if she looked outside yet.  She said no and then got very excited.

"Yeah!  It snowed!  Woo Hoo! . . . So does that mean school is late?"

UGH!

Me:  "No honey, school was cancelled because of the snow."

Alli burst into tears "but my party is today!"

Once realizing that we couldn't change things and Mommy emailing her teacher to ask if we could have a party the week we returned to school (with Mommy promising to run everything!), 

Alli decided to get excited about playing in the snow.

The kiddos were so excited to get on their snow suits but when it actually came time to do it,

poor Eli still wasn't feeling well and couldn't muster the energy :(

Alli and Lukey, however, had a blast in the snow with Daddy!

Lukey was especially excited, this being his first real snow experience!

He LOVED riding in the Escalade with Alli in the snow :-)

Daddy even got them "sledding" with one of our storage bin lids (yes, we need to buy a sled!)

They had such a blast!!!

After a fun morning in the snow, G took Alli and Lukey shopping.

Eli finally started feeling a little better and wanted to play in the snow so out we went.

He had so much fun sliding, making snow angels and building two snowmen.

First we built the little "Eli snowman" then we build the larger "Mommy snowman"

After about 30 minutes, Eli agreed he was cold and ready to come in for hot chocolate.

Sadly, after a few sips, this poor guy was feeling lousy again and back on the couch :(

At least he had a great hour or so of play time and fun in the snow with Mommy!!!

No surprisingly, the snow was all gone by late afternoon.

School definitely did NOT need to be cancelled but it was a fun family day :-)