What Happened To Spring?

Three days ago I was walking down almost dry earth on the driveway chatting to E that soon they should be able to ride their bikes on the driveway! Later that same day Papa and I noticed that where the grass was clear of snow it was greening up!!  Not anymore! This morning we woke up to snow! 

The snow really is beautiful as it covered everything with it's whiteness. It makes everything look clean and nice and I can really appreciate that. 

We got 6 inches of that fluffy white stuff this morning. Warm, wet, dripping mush! It was snowing when we got up and snowed until almost 6pm!! Papa figures we got about 6 inches. It was +5C and the snow was falling off the roof and trees in chunks while it was still snowing! The snow flakes started out HUGE and slowly, through out the day, got smaller and smaller.  I took these pictures later in the evening. With the naked eye it looked like there was a fine mist over the new snow several feet high. I didn't capture it on the pictures which is making me wonder if I imagined it :)  Papa did plow it off the drive so it might not take too long to get back to dirt.

It did put a few of our projects on hold... and got a few others bumped up the list and finished! Star was going to get out of her little pen and into a halter and on a line out in the yard and we decided not to do it just yet! Instead Papa got the cream separator out of storage, washed and set up. We took the plastic off the living room window and he threw me bags of kids clothes that needed to be sorted and repacked in totes and I got them all sorted and repacked and Papa took them back outside!! SO nice to have that big job done!! I sorted out an entire barrel sized black garbage bag for the thrift store! Now I just have my own clothes to find, sort and try on. Yes.. I'm avoiding it :) But it needs doing as I've only got two pairs of pants to wear and one of them are sweats :)

J decided to do more school then I'd planned and started and finished his last PACE on science, sans self test and test. He spent a good chunk of the day at the table doing school. L and E finished their PACE's with  cheerful smiles all around! All and all it was a productive and fun day, Papa headed out to Bible Study this evening which means MOVIE NIGHT with leftovers :)

SPLASH!!!

We went outside the other day to

 purposely to get as wet as possible 

and get some SPRING in our systems.

It was a little colder then I thought

 and we ended up 

only staying out for an hour.

But it was good because it gave us time to 

SHOWER 

before the baby woke up :) 

SPLASH!!! 

J jumping in the deepest puddle. 

Cool picture of the muddy water splashing up to his knees!!

J3 loved to jump in the puddles!!

 SPLASH!!!

At one point his boot got sucked off in the mud and he got very wet in the puddle 

and I picked him out of it, put his boot back on and off he went again!! 

R, she's a little bit wet and dirty :) LOL. 

YAY!!!! 

5 little Griggers huddled around the well casing :) We went inside right after this.

Well.. NO.

We went on the front porch.

Striped the kids to their underwear.

Put clothes, jackets, hats and gloves right into the washing machine! 

Hopped them in and out of the shower in quick order.

Got dressed in nice clean warm clothes.

And remembered fondly our hour outside in the very wet! 

I also got a short movie of them all jumping in the deep puddle which I may up load one of these days.

SUPER DUPER FUN STUFF!!!!