It's The Best Day Ever!!!!

I have always loved snow days, but I have to say, my love for them has reached a whole new level now that I am teaching!  It is an amazing feeling to think that you have a full 12 hour day ahead of you filled with making lunches, packing backpacks, driving to 2 schools, correcting reports, correcting tests, teaching, meetings, sports, etc. and then to have it all taken away!  Nothing on your scedule for the WHOLE DAY!!!

I haven't had a free day like that since summer!  Even more fun, was that Pancho was stuck at home with us (he couldn't make it to Seattle).  We were all home for a fun family day together.  It started off with the  kids playing out in the "snow" (about 1 inch of it) for 2 hours.  Then, they came in for Hot Chocolate and we baked chocolate chip cookies. I even got to take a nap in the afternoon and then after a delicious family dinner, we watched a family movie together.

  A perfect day!

Sam and Cam

Of course we had half the neighborhood playing in our yard for most of the day.

Max filled this storage bin so he could build a snowman.

Our street!

Our house in the snow.

We have my parents van right now, because my van is in the shop.

Playing!

Three cheers for no school!

A Big Smile for the snow!

Pancho with his new Toyota Camry.

Thats right, Pancho got a new (to us) car!  Those of you who know us well, know what a HUGE step this was for Pancho.  Windows that roll down, a lock that works, a radio that works . . . its amazing! ha ha

Sam always seems to be the the one laying in the snow.

Ta Da!

Here is the pathetic little snowman that they built with all of the snow they collected.

Lucy, Max and Cameron

Max was the mastermind behind the engineering of the snowman.

I was so  happy that I got up at 5:00am on Sunday to finish correcting the 51 Historical Biography Reports that were due last Friday.  At around 9:00am when I finished correcting, I also went grocery shopping for  Thanksgiving, and got the house ready for my brother and his family to come down from Seattle to stay with us!  Had I known that I was going to have a free day this week, I probably would have saved some of that work for today! 

I have to admit, I am getting selfish now.  I am  PRAYING for another snow day tomorrow too.  O'Hara only has a half day anyway, and I am already in the Thanksgiving Spirit.  It is going to be really hard to go back into work mode.  Can't we just make it Thanksgiving Break now?