New Year's Day

New Year's Eve we let the kids stay up until midnight.  The plan was to watch the Space Needle fireworks but we couldn't find a way to watch it with the music and everything since we don't have (or want) cable.  We are lucky enough that we live in a community that LOVES fireworks so we were able to just go to the windows upstairs and watch those.  The kids thoroughly enjoyed staying up that late!  When we woke up on New Year's Day we had SNOW!  We have had 3 separate days with snow so far and it is pretty rare for us to get any at all.  It was a special treat!  As soon as they had someone else willing to go out Kayda and Carson headed out.  It was perfect snow for snowmen and snowballs!  They built a snowman with Daddy (which Carson destroyed soon after), attempted to sled down the neighbors driveway (which is short and not very steep) and had a mini snowball fight with Daddy.  Dillon wasn't very interested in the snow.  After two nights of less sleep than normal he really just wanted to rest. 

Eventually I went out back to play with them.  Carson and I made a huge snowman.  The bottom got so big I had to ask Daddy to help me roll it.  Then we had to work together to lift the middle on.

Of course, shortly after we made that Carson was destroying it too.  They couldn't get the bottom to do anything and we've pretty much been below freezing since.  Since the snow hasn't melted they'll periodically go outside and take a shove to the lowest portion to try to break it apart. We still (4 days later) have snow on the ground which is odd for this area but I'm enjoying it!  Even if it's all just ice at this point.  The kids are back in school and back to the regular routine.  They seem much more content again.