What a day!

We had an incredible day yesterday. Even though the news had been announcing that we were going to have snow, we were very skeptical about it. I decided not to send my boys to school since they were going to be dismissed at 12:00.
So they got up in the morning and waited in front of the window for a few hours until the first flakes of snow started to fall, at which they threw on their robes and ran outside to taste said snow. It took hours for it to start sticking on the ground and because everything was closed down due to the weather, Josh came home at 2:00 from work, and that was just what we needed since his schedule has been changed, and now he has to work some days 12 1/2 hours. (because of the Toyota recalls)
After having a treat of "Black Bottom Banana Bars"(it's basically banana bread with unsweetened chocolate) my kiddos favorite, we cozied up with our snow gear and headed outside to play.
One of my best friends(she grew up shoveling snow in the winter...) told me once that she thought that God gave us the beach and the snow to see us play in it. And I whole heartedly agree.
We played outside for about 3 1/2 hours, from snow ball fights to making snow...figures and topping it off with my hubby's favorite thing to do. Offroading in the mud (but yesterday was more like brown slush) until our jeep was producing black exhaust smoke and there were no more huge puddles of mud...
We were reminded that there are a lot of hidden blessings in the common every day things that we take for granted.