Snow!

We got nearly a foot of snow over the last 24 hrs! Aaron's been out plowing for about 20 of those hours, but the girls and I have been hunkered down at home, baking Christmas cookies and reading stories. We ventured out to play for a while this morning. It took about 20 minutes to get all three of us geared up, we were outside for about half an hour, and it took 10 minutes to strip it all off afterwards. The whole adventure felt like a lot more than an hour, though!

The girls were pretty much immobilized by their winterwear, even in the living room. From the inside out, Nora's wearing: undies, socks, babylegs, tshirt, long sleeve shirt, sweatpants, bib snowpants, parka, snowboots, gloves, mittens, and a hat. Josie's in: diaper, tshirt, babylegs, socks, long sleeve onesie, fleece overalls, shearling lined soft sole boots, snowsuit, bootie things that attach to the snowsuit, mittens, and a hat.

Neither of them really got the concept of playing with the snow, and it is really powdery and not good snowman snow, but they were happy once I brushed off the slide and swings and they could use those. It was lots of fun - maybe once all the outwear has dried off, we'll venture out again this afternoon!