Embracing The White Stuff And Chilly Weather

Although I'm not a huge fan of snow, I do appreciate a good snowman and snowflake...especially the ones that don't interfere with our driving. ;) So, being the theme person I am, I have a few January winter activities lined up. This week we enjoyed a few...but actually got the real thing on Tuesday morning too!!! Hoping we get at least one more snow this winter, but we shall see. :)

Fluffy Stuff

Tuesday morning we were surprised to see that we had the REAL fluffy stuff falling outside. :) Lorelei was wanting to go out and play as soon as she got up, while it was still dark. We scrambled to get her ready for school as quickly as possible so she had a few minutes to play out in the snow before we left for school. Some friends of ours decided to play hooky and stay home and enjoy the snow, which we probably would have done if I wasn't out of milk and bread! :)

It was a very good thing she went out before school as it was almost all melted when she got home!

Our snow play dough. She made her snowman wink, can you tell? ;)















When you have to get milk and bread...you may as well get Oreos and white chocolate. :) Saw this on Pinterest so we had to make our little snowmen faces. The kids were just thrilled that they got cookies! Again, Lorelei is into fun faces, so this snowman is making the "o" face. :) And yep, they were super yummy. They even got hot chocolate to boot!

It warmed up a bit Wednesday so we played a game called "Jack Frost's Not Lost" outside while drinking hot chocolate. (My kids will like winter, if nothing for the amount of hot chocolate I let them consume. ;) )

They both LOVED this game. It is so simple that they can both totally get it, but fun for all...plus you get to eat marshmallows  :) Going to have to get a less sugary version if they want to play it more often! :)

Lots of smiles from this activity.

And Brad has been foregoing all that hot chocolate and sticking to hot lemon and honey as well as apple cider, as he has been diagnosed with whooping cough! Yes, you can get it as in adult as your immunizations you got as a child have worn off! He is on the road to recovery though!

Friday we stayed home and had friends visit! We ended up booking both a morning and afternoon play date  This is enjoying some lunch with Kaitlyn, Hailey and Ki. :) Hadn't seen them in quite a while and they all had a great time destroying the place! :) Later we had a quick visit with the Hughes kiddos and it had warmed up enough to enjoy the sandbox.