Snowy Day In the Mountains

Today was a fun in the snow day for my children. My littlest one got up and saw all the snow and immediately wanted to go outside and play in it. So here are the pics of their day. Below you will see my 6yr old enjoying frolicking in the snow. The tree behind her was her fort and she would hide behind the branches and throw snowballs.


The snow was a bit to deep for my 3yr old to walk in. She would take a step and fall down. She thought it was fun the first 10 times or so. Then she got her sled and was pulled around by her oldest sister and me. We are both ready for bed after lugging her up the hill 10 times! Here she is after falling. Notice the snow in her hand. What is it about fresh fallen snow that just screams "Eat Me" to children. ALL of them ate handfuls of it. Clean snow, not the yucky stuff. :)

Speaking of eating snow, we decided to make snow cream. The littlest ones help and you can see it was a huge success. They loved it. It did taste delightfully delicious! Notice the hand mixer my 3yr old is using. It was my Grandmothers and I remember loving to mix with it as a child. She had given it to my mom and I was so happy because then I could use it all the time and not just at Grandma's house. :)


We then went back outside later in the day. Here is my 6yr old on top of the hill getting ready to slide down. See our dog with her. He rarely gets let loose because he likes to visit our neighbors. He does not stray to far in the snow so he is able to frolic a bit with us. It was funny to watch him leap through the snow. It was to deep for him to run through, he had to jump each step. It tired him out pretty quick.

Below is a picture of my oldest sliding down with her littlest sister. She seemed to really enjoy playing out in the snow. I am glad. I still like to slide down hill so maybe she will be the same.



While they enjoyed the outdoors most of the day, I was only able to get outside the last time as I was busy making a delicious soup which I set to cook on the wood stove and then made old fashioned brown bread to go with it. This bread is so scrumptious. It does not have any sugar in it, but it has molasses instead and it is yummy. It goes perfectly with soaps and the kids gobbled one whole loaf up. I also baked more cookies today. This was a good thing since they devoured the batches I made yesterday. They can eat some cookies I tell ya. I am off to finish knitting my gram a scarf so I can hurry and get it in the mail on Monday. See ya!