Thursday, December 17, 2009

Ice, Ice, Baby!

Being the Californians that we are, Christmas traditionally arrives with crisp weather against a backdrop of sunshine and blue skies.  We took heart though when we heard the temperature was going to drop overnight to below 30 degrees and that there may even be...snow?

Sure enough, the next morning was positively...

Magical!
 
The night prior Samuel wrote a note to the kids leaving instructions for them to look outside the back door for a surprise.  What they found was a small bowl filled with water-now frozen ice-and four quarters!
 
After some enthusiastic stabbing with forks...
 
The coins were released!
 
And the ice made for some crunchy-though extremely unsanitary-snacking!

Owen was oblivious to the ice-skapades (is that a pun?  Or even a word?), and busied himself with trying to put on stockings for socks!

It was quite the challenge, but all in all a success!

Happy Snow Day!



1 comment:

Cadle Clan said...

I LOVE that idea. You guys are so creative!