Preston, Levi, & Sophie enjoying the snow.

This morning around 7:24 am my boys are all ready to head out the door for school.  Teeth are brushed, hair is combed, and lunches are made.  We hear from their dad school is cancelled it’s a snow day!  Immediately you hear a mighty cheer come from the boys at the same time you hear a mighty groan come from their mom.  Don’t get me wrong I do enjoy having the boys around but I also enjoy the peace and quiet when they are off to school.  So we have made this day a productive day.  After the kids did their chores which include cleaning their rooms, dusting, cleaning the bathrooms, and picking up all the toys around the house we made this day a true snow day.

It snowed around 6 inches last night and around 3 inches the day before.  We also have  about 12 inches that was already accumulated from before.When we shovel the driveway we always shovel to one side.  We do this because we live in the great state of Idaho where the wind never stops blowing.  If we shovel to the other side of the driveway we are back out there shovelling the drifts.  That means we have quite the mound on the one side of our drive.  So much so I have to chuck the shovel of snow over my head.

I decided the kids would have a lot of fun with a few caves and tunnels. It was a lot of hard work but the kids really did have fun making the tunnels.  This is a great memory to go down in the books.  They spent so much energy on making the tunnels that they haven’t even had a chance to play in them yet.  We came in for hot cocoa and we are letting their snow stuff dry.  Hopefully later in the day I can send them back out to play.

Preston in his cave/tunnel.

Sophia in her cave/tunnel. It connects to Preston’s.

Levi working hard on his cave. He put the most effort in.

Preston’s and Sophia’s cave.

Levi’s cave

Another entrance to Levi’s cave