A Snow Wonderful Weekend

Saturday morning we woke up to about 6" of snow on the ground and the snow just kept on coming. It was very pretty (though not as fun shoveling out of it for Geoffrey) and we enjoyed having a very low key weekend stuck in the house all together.

Before the snow got too deep, we put Isabel in her snow bibs, along with about 3 layers of clothing, her sherpa lined jacket (not waterproof) covered in her rain coat. I give you Isabel aka our little sumo wrestler.

Waiting for daddy to shovel off the landing before we headed out into the snow.

Checking things out. Ever since the snow a few weeks ago, Isabel has been quite interested in the snow, and I was hoping we wouldn't have a repeat of the first time I introduced her to the snow.

She didn't mind walking in it, so I took that as a very good sign.

And then she probably spent a few minutes just poking at the snow piles and grinning with delight.

Uh oh. Daddy, what on earth are you doing?

Isabel's first snow angel. Geoffrey moved Isabel's arms and legs for her. She gave him a very strange look, but didn't get upset, though did ask to get "up up" after not too long.

We ended our brief time in the snow with a ride down the slide.

Weeeee!

The rest of the weekend we spent inside, with the exception of Geoffrey clearing the same spot for the pugs, and then shoveling the driveway on Sunday.

I had a few more things left on my baking list, and decided to finish them up on Saturday. Isabel just loved being able to help, especially stirring. Here she is working on the glaze for lemon ricotta cookies.

I asked Isabel if she wanted to help ice the cookies and she chanted "icing! icing!" So I put her in a t-shirt bib, gave her a small bowl of glaze and she went to town. I was shocked that she didn't try to eat any of the cookies or glaze. She took her job quite seriously and finished 5 cookies in the time I finished the remaining 4 dozen or so.

Isabel and her masterpieces! I'm guessing she is really going to enjoy decorating sugar cookies on Christmas Eve day.

Today we spent the morning preparing for Grandma & Grandpa Schaeffer's arrival. Isabel helped me make beets and horseradish (a Ukrainian food), and did a great job dumping in the horseradish. We also made the filling for pierogies and should be all set for our pierogie making party.

Merry Christmas Adam! (As Eric used to always say on Dec 23rd)