Saturday, January 9, 2010

Snow Days

This is what our street looked like as we were loading up for school on Thursday...
Morning Snow

This two were dressed and ready but secretly hoping for an early release...

Ready

All the snow stopped soon after we all arrived at school, so just knew we would be in session for the day.  Then all of a sudden the snow started to fall again and they announce an 11:30 release!!!  The best news ever...we got to go home early and didn't have to make up the day!  By the time we all arrived home, this is what our street looked like...

Snow

Later that afternoon, we found out that school was cancelled for Friday...

What? No school?

...Owen said "What? No School Tomorrow?" because by that point all the snow had pretty much stopped!

We hunkered down for the game with...

Chicken Veggie & Cornbread

...big bowls of chicken veggie soup and piles of cornbread.

Friday morning, Banks and Mary Reese were dying to...

Snow Bunnies

...play outside in what little snow we had left!  After I made them come in and warm up, we were looking for a little project.  I remembered something Banks got for Christmas from Santa.  Do you remember doing these?

Before

...Shrinky Dinks?  First you color them {they took this part serious}...

Serious

Then you put them on a baking sheet and pop them in the oven...

Ready to shrink

...and in about 3 minutes they come out looking like this...

Shrinky Dinks

They had the best time watching them shrink!  Our Shrinky Dinks were actually ornaments which came with this little tree for display...

Shrinky Drink Tree

Won't this be fun for the holidays?

It is another fridged day around these parts.  If you look closley out the window, you can see some tiny flakes of snow falling.  I think I am offically ready for Spring!

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