to the mountain

Winter is a hard season for me to find lots of joyous activities to do with the family.

Last year we took the kids sledding for the first time and it was a lot of fun.

It has become a new tradition for us to do or I would like it to be.

This past Saturday we finally made up to the mountain for an afternoon of sledding!

This year my brother and his family came along too.

We also brought up chili to eat afterwards.

There wasn't nearly as much snow as last year so there were a few sore bums

but other then that lots of fun!

first snow day

On Friday we got our first snow day of the season.

Michelle was so sure the night before that there would be no school

and I told her no way you will for sure go.

When I woke up Friday morning we were blanketed in snow.

School was canceled.

I had was actually completely bummed.

I was so looking forward to spending the day in Jordan's

class doing Christmas crafts, playing minute to win it games,

plus it was pj day and an assembly. But the kids were excited

to be home so I had to change my attitude and we made the most of it.

Around 9 in the morning we headed out on a snow walk with my sister 

and my nephews. We live right down the road from a coffee shop so we 

headed there for hot chocolate and coffee. The kids had fun playing in the

snow all the way there and back. Lots of energy was burned off.

On the way back we saw several families making snowman's

in there yards so Jordan really wanted to make one too.

It was a fun morning and I am glad we went out and enjoyed.

Snow Day 3

Wednesday

January 18

Woke up to a very blustery cold morning.  

The wind continued to blow all day and made some nice drifts in front of our house.  

Here's a video I took this morning looking out our front door.

Josh made his way to work and Michelle got picked up by a friend's dad to go spend the day playing at her house.  That left Jordan and I home for the day.  I told myself I would be more productive today.  

I spent a good part of the morning cleaning the kitchen & bathroom, did 3 loads of laundry, and loaded/ran the dishwasher. 

 I even made something I pinned on pinterest!

You to can make one!  Super easy, quick, and cute!  

I wrote a how to on my other blog here!

Jordan did his usual thing DS, Wii, played in his room, sprayed snow in the sink, set up his pretend Mario cart course and raced a few times, helped me make some hot chocolate for his snack, we did some printables I made for him, bribed him with marshmallows to smile at me for a few pics....you know the day to day stuff.

{the printables I made for him were way to easy so I think I need to make more kindergarten leveled ones}

Michelle ended up never coming back from her friends.  They were waiting to see if school would be canceled tomorrow so they could have a sleepover.  Low and behold school is canceled tomorrow.  Sleepover for her!

Josh brought home some steaks and wine for dinner.  He spent the evening with Jordan playing indoor basketball, giving him a bath, story, and bed.  Now we are doing our usual night time activities.  I play on the computer surfing pinterest and blogging while he shoots people and smack talks to whoever is out there on his video game.

Tomorrow I get to babysit Cohen!! I am super excited!  The last couple of Thursdays Jana ended up not working.  Which worked because we still got together and worked on Project life books.  Which I am not officially already behind on for 2012 due to snow and not getting to Costco.  I will have some making up to do this weekend.