A fun day that ended with a fun night

School was called off today. We got quite a bit of snow and with that came slick roads. It was good to have the kids home. They were really good too. They played outside for a good portion of the day.....had lots of hot chocolate and too many pumpkin chocolate chip cookies.

Here is our tree. I let the kids decorate it all by themselves. I think they did a mighty fine job. Kids enjoying the snow.

Rachel is trying to clean out that sled. It was filled with ice.

More sledding.........

OK so it took Don almost 3 hours to get home tonight. He doesn't think people around here know how to drive in the snow or even rain. FUNNY. He walked in with a Walmart bag. He was up to something. I had gotten the younger three kids ready for bed and even had Ethan asleep. Rachel was close. Mayah was out of her bed quite a few times doing her typical nightly 'stuff'. And the boys were watching Goosebumps. Don starts putting some ingredients into a pot. Then he started asking where the kids were. I told Mayah to get into bed but he ruled against that and said she could stay up. He high fived her. That gave her the giggles. Then he told Mayah to go upstairs and wake up the other two so they could come down. Ethan was out....but after he learned that he could get up for some hot chocolate he was up quick. Rachel came quickly as well. Hoping there is no school tomorrow. But even if there is we all had a super fun night of dad cooking us up some hot chocolate. The recipe came from Glenn Beck...Don's favorite talk radio host.

***warning.....this may cause clogged arteries....eat at your own risk. All you do is use cream (Glenn uses straight cream but Don bought half and half. Then heat that up and just stick some hershey's milk choc. bars in. There isn't really a set recipe. Just do it to taste. It is GOOD. Then Don topped it off with that spray whip cream. YUM. Seriously it is delicious.

Toasting their cups.



Just some fun funny faces.

AND YES you see it right. That is cream all over their noses...we have dad to thank for that.

YUM enjoying their drink. The kids couldn't drink it fast enough. They all thought it was the best. Maybe it was really really good but I am thinking since Dad let them all stay up a bit later AND drink hot chocolate just made it a super fun night in their eyes. I was OK with it too.