This is from back in October but my friend just sent the photo and . . . well just look at these guys!

Precious boys. Precious fun.

We had a little snow over the Christmas holidays. When I say little I really mean little. It came down all day but the accumulation was light – just enough to be pretty. AND just enough to cause our children to run hither and yon through the house to layer clothes and head out to play.

They made a merry little band of players heading out into the “wild”.

KB took the lead (of course).

I managed to wrangle one posed photo out of the gang.

But after that it was all snow angels and cleaning off the van.Good times.

Little was the first to come in; I was not surprised. The others followed after an additional 15 minutes and hot chocolate was had by all. Noses lost their redness. Fingers regained feeling. All was right in the “world”.

There was quite a bit of this: Maybe more than there should have been. It was hard to say “no” when it led to so much of this:

There was also a lot of this: and it led to a lot of this:

And then there was this: A spontaneously written note to me (“Dear mom I [heart] you mom). You bet your nickel it led to this: