Even though we've been living in Idaho Falls since the beginning of June we haven't officially been here until today. What made it official? Snow. We were told many things about the area when we announced that we were moving here, but by far the most common was that the winters were nasty compared to Caldwell. Six months later and we are getting our first taste.
The kids have all seen snow before of course, but never really enough snow that stuck around long enough to play in. Snow in the Boise/Caldwell area comes in small doses and very rarely lasts longer than 12 hours.
Today we finally got some of the dreaded white stuff. It was only about two inches and it was barely wet enough to hold together and make a snow man, some snowballs, and some snow angels, but the kids had a blast. None of them were ready to come in after two hours even with the promise of hot chocolate.
Since we can't fight it I figure we might as well embrace the inevitable. Snowmen, snow ball fights, snow forts, ice fishing, and sledding are just some of the activities we look forward to over the coming months! Oh if anyone has blue prints for a snow tank Caleb would like to talk to you.
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