Crazy Snow!

The snow started falling Sunday and pretty well hasn't stopped!  It's nuts!  We've got over two feet of snow!  School was cancelled yesterday and because school was cancelled so was gymnastics. Unfortunately, Lennard had to go back to work!  Boo!  He's been off for the last four weeks since his surgery on his wrist and it has been wonderful having him home.  I think in some ways he was ready to go back to work, but in lots of ways he wasn't.  He still can't do much there, so it's pretty frustrating for him.

The kids and I hung out in our pajamas for most of the morning.  We had German pancakes for breakfast and just enjoyed a lazy day.  Pretty soon the doorbell rang and the neighbor kids were asking for Emma and Ben to come out and play in all the snow!  They threw on their winter gear and headed outside.  There is so much snow that it's hard for them to walk in it.  They played for quite a while and then all came inside our house to warm up.

It's been a super chill day - without a whole lot getting accomplished.  Sometimes, you just need days like that... right?!  lol

School was on today, but our street is so packed with snow I was worried I'd get stuck in the van, so I walked the kids to school.  It's a good thing we walked too because they were clearing snow in front of the school and there were huge windrows of snow that the kids would have attempted to climb.  We ended up walking to the end of the block where it was plowed and got in to the school that way.  It was really cold too!  I managed to get the van out and get Ben from kindergarten and then I picked Emma up a bit early from school so that she could get changed and get to her dance class in Mountain View.  They usually don't have classes when school is cancelled (which Mountain View school was again today), but Stephanie decided to have one big class at 3:00-4:30.  The only issue is that the Cardston kids don't get out of school until 3:00!  I got Emma changed and ready for her ride... and then they were a little later getting here than expected - and then they got stuck!  I'm sure she'll only get about 45 minutes of the 1 1/2 hour class, but at least we tried!

Ben's martial arts registration night is coming up next week.  We have to decide whether or not we'll put him in for one or two nights a week.  Lennard really wants to put him in twice a week so that he'll learn and remember the moves a bit better.  I'm just not sure I'm ready for another activity going on twice a week.  Yikes.

Our ward temple night was supposed to be tonight, but with all the snow, the bishop cancelled it and it will probably be next week sometime.  At least that frees up our evening.  I attempted to shovel our driveway this afternoon, but I only got about 1/3 done before I was too cold to keep going.  It was about -22 and then the windchill on top of that.  Brrrr!

Anyways - that's our life in a nutshell the last little while.

Ben's off playing at the neighbor's house.  Emma's at dance class.  Lennard's picking up airplane stuff from Babb... and I should be cleaning up and getting dinner on the table.  Oh well... I'm updating the blog instead!