Snowcation!

By the end of January, we had only seen a few sporadic snowflakes floating around on a couple of days, and I was giving up hope that we would get any snow days.  The boys all had their Valentine's Day parties at school on February 13.  Little did we know that they wouldn't go back to school until March!

On Monday, February 16 (an in-service day for me and President's Day holiday for the kids), an ice storm came through Knoxville that canceled school for the first part of the week. Then we got another wintry mix later in the week that canceled school for a couple more days. Then the next week we got some snow (much more fun than ice!) and got a couple more days off from school. We'd spent the first week cooped up inside most of the time so we were glad to be able to get out and play...finally!

 And then when we thought we'd finally be going back to school, we got the biggest snow of the season--about 5-6 inches!  This one wasn't as good for sledding, but it was great for making snowballs, snowmen, and igloos!

 Once we left Hudson and Hollins (the two "wild ones") alone in the igloo, it didn't last long!  

They had fun knocking each other into the walls and flipping over the tops of the walls. 

To his credit, when Griffin and Harper got upset about them tearing down the igloo, Hudson did try to fix it (but that didn't last long, either).