Snow Day!

Blizzard of 2013, Blizzard of Oz, whatever you want to call it we sure were socked in! The timing was a bit hard as Mark was scheduled to start a four day deposition on Thursday morning at 7:30. We woke up Thursday morning to no snow but after looking at the weather report decided it would be silly for Mark to drive into KC. With our prisoner Mark tucked away in our bedroom with his phone, computer and view of the falling snow we went about enjoying what turned into a few snow days.... EE came over in the morning just as the snow was getting bad and with GranAnn living just a couple minutes walk away we had plenty of company.

Merrill and I headed out with the girls when the snow was still falling at a rate of 2"/minute. It was a little too much wind and heavy snow for the girls to enjoy it.

We spent the rest of the morning baking cookies.

The girls are so cute to each other when they are doing things they know they aren't supposed to be doing... Like when my mom caught them sitting on a pillow under our island and eating all the leftover cookie sprinkles. And Amelia was so excited to get to take daddy a plate of cookies.

Once Amelia showed us that there was no way she was napping, the two of us headed out to shovel the driveway. Amelia was in heaven with the deep snow, still falling flurries and all the neighbors who couldn't stop telling her how cute she is and what a great help she was shoveling.

After clearing our driveway we went to help GranAnn....

By Friday morning the sky was clear, roads were still packed, daycare still closed, Mark still locked in our room and the snow waiting to be played on. The girls started to get more into sledding and playing in the snow. Amelia of course knew well in advance that her favorite part of playing in the snow was hot chocolate (and homemade cookies) after coming inside. 

And maybe the most exciting part of the blizzard was when on Friday evening and Saturday afternoon Mark got a break from the deposition. Sweet Amelia kept asking when  her daddy would be done working so he could play outside with her (he IS way more fun than I am). So fun dad helped Amelia build her first snowman and was a total trooper getting the girls up and down the "hill" so they could sled their hearts away....

The mound outside of our place is the perfect size "hill" for little girls!

Daddy and his girls!