Snow Day!

You wouldn't think a family on maternity/paternity leave would even notice a snow day, and we would normally agree with you. But this time Aunt Laura was snowed in with us since it got too bad to drive back to Omaha after she finished working at the Sheldon that day. So we got an awesome extra day with Aunt Laura to make cookies and play in the snow!

Here it is in the morning coming down.
Two of the prettiest girls I know.

The first plate of holiday cookies for the season.

While the last of the cookies were baking, everyone except Mommy and Lenora went out to play. Here's Daddy shoveling a snow fort.

And Laura made a snow angel!

Ernie then exploited his Dad's trick to get warm: undress and sit in front of a heater with a blanket.