Snow Day!

Today was like an unexpected gift that arrives on your doorstep weeks after the holidays...........

Today was a snow day for both Lauren & Scott and while it brought plenty O' the white stuff, it also afforded us a brief respite from the Arctic blast that has gripped our region all of this past week!

Today we set aside our ongoing projects, both large & small ( for at least a bit) while we all tumbled outside and into the backyard for some winter play!

Today our girl played outside with one, both or all of us for close to 3 hours and later helped Mama make a homemade pizza for supper!

Today baby T plunged face first into the snow ( most unexpectedly! ), rolled to the side and got right back up for more! What a brave boy!

Today was pure bliss, packaged tidily in a crisp white blanket of snow.

& Tomorrow???? Well.....its FRIDAY, so anything is possible!! :)

Wishing you all moments of spontaneous play & unexpected "gifts" on your doorsteps!

I love both of their expressions ~ Lauren loves to pull Tyler and Tyler clearly loves to be pulled by his big Sis ~ and he's clapping for her in this pic! :)

Do you all remember catching snowflakes with your tongue as kids?

Even big girls need a break............being pulled along by Daddy!

And a bit later, after Daddy & Lauren left for their nature walk ~ Tyler discovered the red shovel and Mama took a few more photos!

Trying soooooooooooo hard here..........quickly he discovers its simply impossible to hold the handle with his mittens on! OH, the frustration!!

Victory at last ~ utter glee at his accomplishment! Cold hands???......who me?? PA -Shaw!

Wow, how much more snow will we get?

A foot of snow?.......no problem for me! I laugh in the face of manual labor...........

Hmmmm? Maybe I should have held out for a management position.............

BREAK TIME!!.............well, at least there are perks with this gig!

And Finally,

Please Daddy, just one more time around the block? (If you look really really close, you can see they are both giggling and grinning from ear to ear!)

P.S. Gracious, just realized this is my first post of the new year! Its been so busy as we ready our home to go on the market in the next month or so! Next week we have a potential buyer coming to take a tour ~ a family member of one of our neighbors. Fingers crossed, as we fully expect this to be a long process given the current (real estate) market & economy.....

AND one year ago today we received word of our Final Ruling as issued by the Taiwan court system ~ making it official what we had already known in our hearts; that Tyler Pei-En was legally & so completely our precious son. & while it would be another 33 days before we held him in our arms, it was, in every way possible, a joyous and memorable day. Both then & now.......