Diary of a Snow Day

This is a diary of our day at home on Wednesday, March 23rd.

For all my fellow Minnesota readers, you can all relate!

For my California blog readers, this one is for you!

This is what I woke up to Wednesday morning:

I know, right...I should be cheering and happy. Not so much. A snow day in March? The week before Spring Break? Nothing to cheer about. Now we have to make up this day in June. Ughhh!

This is the view from our front door. Keep in mind that this snow was virtually all gone when we went to bed on Tuesday night! We were getting so close to NO SNOW!

Bring on the day home with my kiddos! First, we had cranberry orange muffins for breakfast. No lie...Landon ate 9 of them. Yes, I said NINE! Oinker, as we say around this household.

It just so happens that Wednesday was also Addison's 8 month old birthday! It's getting harder and harder to take her monthly pictures these days. This is the best we could do!

While I was downstairs with Addison doing her photo shoot here's what I was hearing come out of Landon's smart little man mouth as he was laying under the kitchen table...

"I want to go to the park...we can't today...there's too much snow." Ohhhh heartbreaking!

So instead of going to the park, we:

played with trucks...

played with Sammie (our lone surviving shih tzu),

played multiple games of Candy Land,

made Easter cookies,

bounced in the jumper castle,

and practiced hitting the basebal in the basement with Landon's new batting tees,

I'm fairly certain that my kids were saving up all week for this day because I changed more poopy diapers in that one day than I do all week. This picture was taken mid-way through the day. Add two more to this pile by bedtime! Yes, I'm too lazy to walk them ALL the way to the garbage can so I just throw them in the garage and Darren picks them up when he gets home. I know.

I decided to be brave and take the kids outside. After all...this might be our last storm of the season. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE be true! It was a disaster from the get-go! This is how little Addison felt about getting all bundled up to go outside:

We made one loop around the house in the sleds before I decided that enough was enough. It was too windy and Addison's nose was running like a faucet. So, after getting Addison inside...try getting a two year old to come inside that's having a ball shoveling the driveway. Meltdown city! (Not sure how our daycare mom Jenny manages to take multiple kiddos outside when I can't even handle two! I give her major credit.)

After meltdown recovery, we enjoyed hot chocolate and cookies:

This little gal was so tuckered out from our long day that even Cheerios couldn't keep her awake!

After a nice dinner of chicken tortilla soup and bread, we enjoyed some play time with Daddy, baths, and early bedtime! What a fun day! We can't wait for next week when we get to be home together all week.