Finally!! Winter's Here!

It feels like we've been waiting since November (the adults in trepidation, the kids in anticipation) for a really big dumping of snow. Shockingly, this year it just never came. I've never seen a winter season in Minnesota like the one we've had this year. Warmer temps (in the upper 30s) and grass all through the winter months. The rare dusting of snow we received would quickly melt and, more often than not, we got rained on. It has been like April in January! That is until yesterday morning. We woke up to a winter wonderland the likes of which we haven't seen since last winter. I think, all told, we got around 7 inches of snow. The best part is that it's already March so this dumping will quickly be gone. Something about knowing that it wouldn't sit here for months and spring was still around the corner made it easier to get out and enjoy it. Even the MN snow plows couldn't keep up with it so the roads were really bad. After getting stuck 3 times before even making it out of our neighborhood Jim turned around and came home. Even our school district declared it a snow day and called off school. That NEVER happens up here.
It seems like we managed to pack in a winter's worth of snow fun in one day. With the help of all our neighborhood friends we had snowball fights, built a snowman, constructed a snow fort, perfected a sled run and played snow football and baseball. Even Calvin was a trooper and stayed outside for over 2 hours yesterday morning then went back out again in the afternoon. I'm pretty sure he ate his weight in snow.
Here are the pictures of our fun day!

Sporty the Snowman
The sled run
Vincent getting some air!
Snow Fort
Cal eating snow
still eating snow!
Ty playing snow baseball