Snow Fun

We had fun playing in the snow today.  I made a great movie using the song, "The First Snowfall of the Winter" by the Carpenters.  I hope you have all heard that song.  It was great background music until YouTube discovered it was copyrighted and blocked my video.  Shucks.  I then tried "Let it Snow" by Chris Isaak.  It too was blocked.  Shucks.  My next attempt is a cheap instrumental CD from Costco.  YouTube hasn't blocked it yet.  It's not as great as the Carpenter's song.  If you have heard the song, sing it to yourself while the pictures scroll by.  I even matched the lyrics.  Silly copyright laws.

Anway, we went to the park by the river and played fox and geese (a great snow game that I played in Idaho as a kid), had a snowball fight, made a silly snowman with several small heads and two noses (my kids both wanted to add the nose and they kept putting small balls of snow on top so I gave up with the tradition three snowball snowman with one nose), and went sledding at the little hill by our lake.

My poor girls don't have any snow boots.  It really doesn't snow here enough to justify buying snow boots.  They'll have to make do with rain boots.  We certainly get a lot of use out of rain boots.  They just wore a lot of socks.

We are supposed to have below freezing temperatures all week.  School is two hours delayed tomorrow (sometimes school is delayed here in the hopes that it melts enough as the day goes on to ensure the buses make it safely..I still wonder why we don't just plow the roads...in Idaho school was only canceled if it was 50* below zero and the drifts were at least 7 feet high).  I hope school isn't canceled this week.  If it is canceled, we have to make it up in June.  I'd rather go to school now than in June.  Besides, I need to teach 8 math lessons in 5 days, do two craft projects, make gingerbread houses, and get through a reading unit by the end of the week.  That won't happen if we don't have school.

I hope we have snow for Christmas.  I hope it melts by the time we have to drive to the airport to go to Disneyland.  I hope we continue to have electricity.

OK...I've talked enough....here is our snow video with boring music....