Snow Day!!!!!

I was awoken early this morning by a phone call saying our school district was closing all schools due to the winter storm.  It was common place to have numerous "snow days" back in Virginia where I went to school for several years.  But it almost never happens her in Utah.  Life pretty much continues as normal no matter the snow fall.  So I don't know why it was different this morning, but almost everything was closed or cancelled today. 

And the fact is, we homeschool anyway!  So it shouldn't have been such a big deal.  But it was.  And it was fun.  And we went sledding and played all day! 

We brought a few neighborhood friends along with us because friends make everything more fun.

It kept snowing the whole time we were there.
And in truth we weren't there for that long, because it was cold and snowy and the little kids run out of steam pretty quick. 

George was so happy to play with his two good buddies in the neighborhood-- Dallas and Oli.

They are sort of inseparable and sort of incapable of taking a normal smiling picture.  We tried.

Elinor was very happy to meet up with her good "friend" Ben.  Well, he is a good friend, but he's also the reason she is very happy to be turning 16 later this month:)

He knew he had it coming when he tried to white wash his older sisters!!