Snow Day!

Lots of snow fell last night and continued to fall today.  Several area schools, businesses and roads were closed as a result.  Hadley and I decided to enjoy the snow day relaxing in our warm house while daddy headed out to work.  This is a picture out our basement window this morning... 

We started out the morning relaxing in our lounge chairs while watching Elmo.

Hadley kept bugging me to go outside and play in the snow.  After much persuassion, we got dressed to head outside.  Here's a picture of Hadley trying to zip up her snow pants by herself.

I just added this picture because I LOVE her face!

As soon as we got outside Hadley immediately fell down again...just like last time we played in the snow!

She's trying to look around me and see Petyon, the neighbor's dog.  She loves that dog!

Hadley and I decided to see how much snow we got last night.  I didn't want to go inside to get the measuring tape, so we used a stick from a tree instead!  We broke it off at the top height of the snow.  How creative, huh?

Hadley's keeping a tight grip on the stick until we can get inside to measure it. 

While we were outside we tried to make a snowman, but the snow wouldn't pack.  We made a snow tower instead out of the packs of snow by the car. 

Measuring the stick...

Looks like we got about 1 foot of snow last night, according to Hadley's and my measurement.

Hadley apparently thought that measuring was so much fun, because she wanted me to measure her boot slippers next.  Too cute!

Whew!  What a fun snow day spent with my sweet little girl.  Too bad daddy had to work and couldn't play with us.