First Week of 2015

2015 has been tons of fun so far!

We (sort of) rang in the New Year with our dear friends, Nick and Trish.  They had us over for make-your-own-pizzas and an early toast.

Yes, that's apple cider. :)  We left by 10:30 p.m. and we were all asleep by 11:15 p.m.  We watched the ball drop the next morning.  

A few days later, we celebrated my birthday.  It was the kids' first day back at school and while they were at school, Ron and I went to lunch and to run some errands.  Later that night we had pizza and cake.  It was a perfect day! 

That night, the weather forecast predicted "a dusting to 1 inch" of snow overnight.  We woke up the next morning to several inches of snow and it was still coming down.  We had a message saying Ron didn't have to go to work, but strangely enough, the schools were open.
Before Kaitlyn went to school, the kids had a blast playing in the snow.  

Ron got quite the workout that morning!

This was him just a second after that video finished. Ha!

Someone thought it would be a good idea to try out the kids' dirt bike in the snow.  Luckily, there was zero traction and it didn't work.  I was preparing for a trip to the ER...not how I wanted to start the New Year!

Shockingly, they didn't cancel afternoon kindergarten, even though we got several more inches after school started and the streets hadn't been plowed!  There were A LOT of unhappy parents!  We heard that the school buses were behind schedule and we shouldn't rely on them, so a neighbor and I walked the girls to school.  We told them that one day they could tell their children that they "had to walk a mile in the snow to get to school when I was a kid."  Ha!  It's surely something Ron and I never experiences as kids.

Luckily, the buses were fine and on time for taking them home.  

School was canceled the following two days so we had lots of hot cocoa, a trip to the library and playtime indoors.  They finally went back to school yesterday.  Phew!  I'm ready to get back to our routines!