Snow Storm

Just before Christmas, Daila was taking secret silly pictures of Anna. When Anna caught her she turned to chase her and Daila tripped. Yep . . . you guessed it . . . camera broke. Ben and I looked at buying a replacement right away, but we fell in love with a fancy schmancy one and decided it was high time we purchased a decent camera for our family. But that means we have to save up a bit for it and that means we are camera-less. :( So all we have to record our memories are our cell phone cameras.

Last night St. Louis was hit with a huge winter storm. Here's a pic of our front yard so far:

Missouri has frequent snow days. Largely due to rural communities, gravel roads, hilly terrain, and ice. Sometimes school is cancelled for what appears to be no reason because the roads don't seem too bad. Sometimes it's because a big, continuous, winter storm is expected, but our area gets passed by the bulk of it. So I could understand why Ben was surprised that they called off school last night. And he hadn't looked outside when he asked me this morning, "Are you sure there's no school today."

He went out to shovel the walk and clear off his car for work and it was still snowing. He came back in and said he would work from home today. :) "There's just too much snow, it would take too much time to shovel it now."

This is the snow storm of every kid's dreams. Who knows . . . maybe this storm brought us TWO snow days! Only time will tell . . .