Time to PLAY!

It snowed more on Thursday night - can you believe it? The snow castle that Robby made on Thursday at around 6pm (see previous post for picture) was COMPLETELY covered up with new snow, save the very top of it, when we woke up Friday! I wish I would have taken a picture.

As a result, school was cancelled on Friday, so Robby, Abigail and myself spent the day lounging around the house - Abby and I let Daddy sleep in until 10am! Then, they let me take a nap from 10-11:30! Fun. We played, and played and played yesterday! It was a fun family day. When we got cabin fever, we bundled up the baby (thermals, sweatshirt, two layers of pants/socks, scarf, 2 blankets, and hat!), bundled up Chance (his doggy jacket) and bundled ourselves up to go for a walk around the neighborhood.

It was about 5pm at this time, and a substantial amount of snow had already melted; Abigail's play center in the backyard hardly had any snow on it at all anymore, and the copious amounts that had our trees wilting in the front yard had melted away, too, but there was still PLENTY in which to play. As we walked around, we could see remnants of snow forts and snowmen, and one of our neighbors (about 7 years old) was out searching for buried treasure in the snow (his mom buried it all over the yard). What a fun game! I'll have to remember that for Abby when she gets older - if it ever snows this much again!

Last night, after we put Abby to bed, we downloaded the movie Couples Retreat. While we were waiting for that to finish, we watched Olympic Opening Ceremonies and cheered on Team USA. (The movie was pretty funny, by the way.)

Going for a stroll with baby "Samantha."

Our house after most of the snow had melted from the trees.


Stomping in the snow. My boots are 13 inches tall, and if you look closely, you can see that the snow is almost to the top of them! That makes it about 11 inches deep - and my feet weren't even really touching the ground - too much snow!

I made Robby surprise brownies for the movie - and they had a surprise message: LOVE!