Days with the Dorans

It has been a CRAZY winter!  I've heard people say that this snow is nothing compared to 'when we were kids,' but the truth is~ with record snowfall (literally the SNOWIEST month in our state's history), THIS is the most snow I've ever seen!  On top of that, we've also had REALLY cold weather.  So much so, that schools have cancelled many days this month because of dangerous windchill temps (We literally only had one full week of school in the month of January!).  So we've had tons of snow, but it's pretty much been too cold to go out and enjoy it (until this weekend)!  It was great that we got some snow yesterday that would actually PACK too!  I don't think that Jeff liked it much (since he was the one that did the back-breaking shoveling), but the kids and I had a lot of fun (I took a break from report cards to come out and play... too hard to resist!)! We've had so much snow that it goes up to my knees so I think that Sean just d...

So after what felt like an uneventful snow season last year, this year we have had some action.  Some people have really been whining about snow days and how teacher's don't have to work (as if all our work is done at school anyway...), but it really is all about whether the busses can get to the back roads safely. Well, our roads were a mess and the timing was perfect and more importantly this was a WET snow which meant SNOWMEN MAKING!  The Bigs got out right away while I got Sean's stuff on him.  Thankfully I had extra boots and snowpants (since I keep all his snow gear at his school).  He was chatting my ear off the entire time talking about all the layers he was having on and what he was going to do outside with the "Bigs."  By the time I got my own snowpants (and camera) and was ready, the Bigs already had a good start to their snowmen (and Jeff a pretty good dent in shoveling that horribly heavy snow)!  It was fun to watch them... Ali and...