Snow!!

 Is this cold white stuff what everyone is so excited abou?  This is called snow?  What is it for?  Why does Mommy make me wear mittens so I can't touch it?

 Yay, we can finally shovel the driveway! 

Melanie found the front of the driveway wasn't big enough, so she started on the far side, where we never drive, but the kids play-and it got shoveled.  And they did not forget the deck!

"Pile up all the snow over on that side guys!"  The kids, under Nathan's direction used his wagon (which he took the wheels off and put the skies on himself!) to load up with all the excess snow from the driveway and deck and heaped it up on the side of the driveway.  We've had a bigger snowfall since, which took them even longer to clear.  But we have the biggest and best snow pile on the block!!

Daniel had trouble picking up the shovel with mittens.  He refused to try pick up a smaller more manageable shovel.  Eventually he got it though!

Jennifer had trouble driving her car in the snow.  She ended up tipping it over and losing her cool.  But all things considering, she still is our youngest child to enjoy the outdoors.  She puts up with mittens and all the other paraphernalia relatively well, as long as she gets to be outside for a while.