A Perfectly Snowy Day

Our camara is currently out of order, compliments of Katherine, but I had to share a few details about our perfectly snowy day.

There were heavy storm clouds above Denver last night and they dropped nearly a foot of snow over our heads. The good news is that Jer and I stayed up really late watching 24 and he received the "church is cancelled due to the heavy snow fall" email before we even went to sleep. So we stayed up even later. And then this morning we stayed in bed until eleven am, taking turns getting up for the bare necessities like turning on cartoons and setting out food offerings for the young'uns.

We were planning to have my sister-in-law Lorie and the kids over for Sunday dinner but I was worried about her driving on the icy roads. Luckily, she is from Wyoming and wouldn't be cowed by twelve puny inches of snow. So they came over around noon and we made eggs, bacon, homemade scones and maple frosting. We sent seven of the eight kids outside (we gave little Elisabeth a temporary pass since she isn't even crawling yet) and they went sledding in our backyard for hours. Possibly not the best way to observe the sabbath day, but I'm not sure staying couped up in our house with 8 kids would have been any better!

Lorie and the kids left before dark and we spent the rest of the evening lugging boxes up from the basement and decorating for Christmas. Let me re-phrase that. Jeremy lugged all the boxes upstairs and then watched football while Katherine emptied out the contents of all six boxes in under five minutes. And then she started breaking things (it's always an accident though!) while Madeleine spent over an hour meticulously setting up our Fisher Price Nativity. We ate sandwiches on hot, homemade bread for dinner and the kids were asleep as soon as they hit their pillows.

You can't have a snow day everyday, or they would promptly lose their magic, but I'm so grateful that our family had today.