Snow birthday

Last week it started out in the 60s and by the end of the week they were predicting snow.  The kids all week in school were so excited. I volunteer on wednesdays and they were already doing their snow dances.  It started snowing around 3pm Thursday and snowed until 3am friday morning.  Its always so pretty watching it fall. We got a snow day friday but honestly could've gone to school since the roads were dry and clear.  It had just been too warm for it all to stick. A little sad to see the small amount of snow for all that snow.

Norah built a snow man thursday night with neighbors.

We had Addie for the week and she loved the snow.

Friday was my birthday.  My 40th! The snow day eased the pain of turning 40 and made it an extra special day.  I actually woke the kids up at 7am to go play in the snow since it would all melt that day.

The snow was a very wet snow but we decided to go see what the sledding hill was like. The kids were dressed and we were at the golf course a little after 8am.  We warned the kids before we got there that it might be too wet to sled down the hills but it was perfect. There was a layer of ice over the snow so we got about 1.5 hours of sledding in before the snow started melting.  

We came home, had hot chocolate and carrot cake and the kids spent the rest of the day playing outside with the neighborhood.

It was a great start to a new decade - even if Colin thinks 40 is old.  But he did tell me that 40 seems old to him but not to me so technically I'm not that old.