SNOW..... day 4

4 days of snow..... this is starting to be epic for our family! 

We did school on Tuesday morning, with the promise of a snow day on Wednesday. 

(The weather men were calling for a BIG snowfall then..... though they've been wrong

a number of times this week. Still don't trust them.)

The pastor had a meeting down south, closer to the city.

No snow there yet, but as he was leaving mid-day it started coming down. 

He was thankful to get back home. 

I'M so thankful that he can be here with us.... (in the past few months, 

we've made the downstairs spare room an office for him.

He locks the door, puts his noise-cancelling headphones on, and is as good as gold!)

The little ones asked for a tea-party, so I obliged and prepared one for them,

.....on the condition that they got all dressed up.

They looked adorable. Daddy even put one of his ties on Toby! 

I LOVE having an excuse to pull out Mama Jo's pink tea cups and kettle.....

and I LOVE delighting my children. 

So, while the world was being covered OUTDOORS by beautiful, white snow,

we had a little warm, cozy IN-DOOR beauty ourselves. 

As for outdoors this day...... there was QUITE a bit of action. 

Drew snuck outside all alone (once again, dressed like he lives in California....

that boy's got some WARM blood)

He enjoyed trying to dig as big a hole as possible, 

until of course it caved in on him!

Next thing I knew, Ellie and Toby were out back with Drew,

and they had decided to try and make an igloo. 

The boys were carting all the snow over to Ellie, 

who was carefully building. 

I LOVE it when they get in creative mode.... especially together. 

SO COOL!!!!

Tuesday evening, we went on a family walk.... in the dark. 

The beautiful thing about snow is that it makes everything seem so quiet,

There is less traffic, and even in the dark, the world seems SO bright. 

The trees were gorgeous. 

It brought back sweet memories of walks in the snow

with the pastor, during our college years at Covenant. 

With five kids though, a quiet, peaceful walk is not really possible.

ha. ha. 

The pastor and I were contemplating how one day they would all be grown,

and THEN we could have a quiet, peaceful walk. 

BUT, we quickly decided,

we would most likely MISS the craziness, 

and be one the phone

asking if our grandkids could come over to play :)

(SURELY with five at least ONE of them will live near us!!)

Such an odd thought..... 

not so sure I want to be thinking about that yet, 

so I'll stop. 

It's so much fun making memories with our children. 

I have very few memories of snow as a child, as we hardly got 

any snowfall in GA. This is all very surreal for me. 

Lord willing, one day my kids are going to have some sweet ones to recall. 

What memories have you been making lately 

with family and friends??