18 inches of snow!!!!

Here we go with round two. Hopefully I can get everything straight. All the snow days have run together in my mind and I can't remember which day is which.
  We'll start with Tues. Spencer had headed up to Olympia the day before just in case he had school.
 We spent a quiet morning watching it snow and looking at the temps, hoping it would be cold enough for the snow to stay.  Around 3pm Tressa showed up with her gang. We had planned on having Heidi over for dinner. She was worried about the roads later, so took a rain check. I'd promised calazones and so I delivered on that. I'd also invited Peyton to spend the night. Spending time with Isabell is better than $100"s of dollars of therapy for the boy. And, Isabell had wanted someone to play with her in the snow. As the evening went on and with the snow, Tressa decided to just spend the night.
  Doug took Peyton and Isabell outside at night to play. They had so much fun. It was dark, so not many good pic's.

 I had given them some little flash lights since it was dark. They loved it. They'd throw them in the snow. We had 4 plus inches and then they'd follow the light and dig through the snow to find them.
Doug also took them sledding. We held up the flash lights so they could see where they were going. The temp was dropping and snow was getting a bit of a crust on top. Was a fun evening.
    The really big snow fall started around midnight.  We woke  to 18 inches of snow.

This is what the snowman that Melia and Spencer built looked like.

Peyton and Isabell Just couldn't wait to get out in the snow. They threw on their rain boots and headed out in their Jammies!

Melia had been a bit worried and concerned about our extreme weather. We had 1 1/2 gallons of milk. She was worried this was not enough.  Her and Tressa thought driving might be tough in all the snow and wanted a bit of an adventure. So they pulled out the snow shoes and headed the 1 mile walk to store.

They were pretty happy before they started!

Tressa getting use to walking in the snowshoes.

You can see Tressa's blog for a full account of there journeys in the wilderness. She did forget to mention  all the cars at Brenda's store, and the people who laughed at them. But, I think they had fun ( and sore muscles). and we had lots of milk.
around 11am the miller family showed. no one wants to spend a snow day alone!!
The weather wasn't the best. it lightly rained on and off all day temps climbed to 36. So it wasn't as fun to play in as the day went on. They made the best of the time they had, as shown by the following photos

 Fort building

 Parker doesn't go anywhere with out his cars, which he carries with him in a Dora case. The snow was too deep for him. Right out the front door he got stuck. He didn't stay out for too long

 Oops! Lost one!

Spent the rest of the day with kids napping, watching movies just hanging out.

Sadly the temp just kept going up. Doug got another day off of school on Thurs. As roads were  a slushy mess. Still have 4 or 5 inches of snow. But it's a wet mess. I had to put the truck in 4-wheel drive just to get out of our drive way. No fun snow play today. Doug has a 2 hr late start on Friday. Tough work week for him.