SNOW DAY!!!

Today was a pretty boring day LOL! So I don't have much to write about. But the exciting part of today was that it was a SNOW DAY! YES! Kids love to stay home and mommy loves to sleep in! Win-win!

We've had a VERY mild winter, very unusual for us. Normally we have multiple feet of snow on the ground from at least December until March. This was us just a few years ago.

This was January 2004 at my mother-in-law's old house:

Same winter, Jeremiah plowing. He is 6'4" tall and the snowbank behind him is taller!

My poor car. I was pregnant with Riley at the time (same winter as above) and I was really sick, so it stayed buried. I had to get rid of it after the snow melted, because it didn't work anymore. I liked that car.

Look at that snowbank!

We're used to it by now! What we aren't used to, is NOT having snow! We had a GREEN Christmas! What the heck kind of a Christmas is that?! Yesterday there was still grass visible! That just doesn't happen. We did not have ONE delay or snow day the entire first half of the school year! And now a month into the 2nd half and we've only had 2 snow days (today being one) and 2 delays! Here's a picture I found on the news from today's storm! Pretty good! Jeremiah was out snow blowing the driveway for hours. That sucked. But the kids went out to play and had fun!

I found this video on the news too! This is about a half hour south of us and they didn't get as much snow as we did, but I thought this was cute! Even elephants like to play in the snow! I love how he's throwing snowballs behind him LOL!

Enough snow talk! There wasn't really a point to that, just sharing what we live through here! Now onto our thankfuls! I found this on Pinterest today and it REALLY stood out to me as exactly what I'm trying to do here! So keep this in your mind as you go through your day. Be positive. Be thankful. 

Riley:

1. I'm thankful for daddy, because he put batteries in my racetrack so I could play with it.
2. I'm thankful for a snow day today!
3. I'm thankful we got to play in the snow today!
4. I'm thankful that mommy, daddy, grandma Rosie and grandma Sue keep us healthy.
5. I'm thankful for grampy, because he buys me 4-wheelers and go carts.


Lily:
1. I'm also thankful for a snow day!
2. I'm thankful we got to play in the snow.
3. I'm thankful we eat healthy.
4. I'm thankful for mommy, because she's so beautiful. [You know I had to put that in there LOL!]
She wouldn't give me a 5th.


Me:
1. I'm thankful for a snow day too LOL!
2. I'm thankful we're (maybe) getting close to closing on our new house!
3. I'm thankful that my kids enjoy healthy food!
4. I'm thankful that where I live most people aren't uptight snobs and care more about the person than the "show" (or at least the people I encounter or I'm thankful that I'm oblivious to it if they are snobs).
5. I'm thankful that we have very caring family and friends.


Jeremiah:
1. I'm thankful that my mom has an extra snowblower they will bring to us until ours gets fixed.
2. I'm thankful for Mountain Dew.
3. I'm thankful for tacos [he's at work and Mountain Dew and Taco Bell are his saviors some nights LOL]
4. I'm thankful for warm blankets.
5. I'm thankful for The Doors. [Not my favorite Doors song, but his. Light My Fire or Hello I Love You, are WAY better!]


Edited to add: These were the snow totals from yesterday. Crazy that right around us was nothing and we got DUMPED on.