Snow Days

On Tuesday, we woke up to snow and ice falling.  We started our morning with pancakes.

 Ben made a Mickey Mouse pancake.

 Mollie and I made snowmen pancakes.

 After a few hours of snow and ice, the ground was barely covered but it was cold.  Ben and Mollie are wearing lots of layers.

 They found enough snow for snow angels in this corner.

 Sliding into the snow at the bottom of the slide.

 Throwing snow at each other.

 Warming up with hot chocolate by the fireplace.

 Mollie wrapped in a towel to warm up because "that's what they do in books."

 And did Annie enjoy the snow?  I never even took her outside to pose for a picture.  I wanted to keep her warm and dry.

 By afternoon, a lot more snow had fallen.  Ben decided they should "sled" by riding down the slide on shingles.

 Making snow icecream.  Since there was a lot of ice in our snow, it was crunchy so we put it in the blender, added a banana and strawberry jello (we didn't have any strawberries) and made smoothies.

 The pile of snow on our front walk.

 The snow stopped falling about 7 p.m. Tuesday, but because the temp never went above freezing it remained until about noon Thursday.  The second day they enjoyed finding big chunks of ice and breaking them on the slide.

Ben making hot chocolate.

 They played so hard in the snow Wednesday that they were knocked out at nap time.

 In the evenings before supper we played Monopoly.

Mollie took this picture.

 After playing for three days the same game, Mollie finally won.

Hal wanted to be the banker.