Snow days...

 The meteorologists were right this time...

we got snow...

and lots of it!

Brian and I both got days off work on Thursday and it was awesome!

The kids just love it when we can all relax and spend time together.  We watched movies, did some cleaning, worked on our main hall bathroom (will explain more later), and of course, did some shoveling and baking and eating!

My beautiful flowers...

they look so pretty right now!

 Maggie wanted to smell them, and instead, just kindof shoved her face in them!

Oh well, I'm sure they smelled lovely!

After the kids got up from their naps, we spent the next 20 minutes getting them all bundled up to go outside.  Colin was so excited to help Daddy shovel.

I pretty much just stayed inside with Mags, but the boys ventured out for some fun!

 I'm not sure what our official amount was, but it was WELL over 12 inches deep.

This picture was taken after the first round of snow, there was still 2 more storms coming.

Brian got out there a total of 4 times to shovel during about a 12 hour span.  His poor back...

 The boys tasting the snow...

 Attempting to shovel out our driveway

 Maggie and I pretty much just stood in the garage and supervised.

Good job boys!

 Colin ventured out into the wilderness that was our front yard. 

Luckily his snow boots stayed on and didn't get lost out there.  It would probably be June before we saw them again!

 Then, as luck would have it, our neighbor runs outside and offers his help with his snowblower!

We love our new neighborhood and our friendly neighbors.

Aaron and Brian knocked out the driveway in about 40 minutes.  There was SO MUCH SNOW!!

Then, to my surprise, my work let us stay at home today too!

So, guess what we are working on...

Yep, we're attempting potty training with Mags.

So far, she's doing pretty well.

Only  a handful of accidents this morning, and I think she's getting the hang of it.

Had to interrupt potty training this morning for a quick trip to Minute Clinic cause Colin's right eye looks terrible.  He's had a runny nose and he keeps wiping it across his face.  Some of his snot must've made its way to his eye and now it's infected.  Yuck.  Now we have eye drops to mess with.

I'll taking some pictures of our hall bathroom soon.
I was looking for a "before" picture on my camera somewhere, but haven't found one yet.  

Let's just say we got rid of the striped forest green, gold, and creme wallpaper for some neutral beige paint.

It looks great.  We'll slowly get this house out of  the 80's and into the 21st century! :)