It’s been quite a day and I have been busy updating our website and social networks with school, government and business closures, baking, cooking, playing in the snow, reading, editing photos and updating my food and photography blogs.

I am exhausted, but I couldn’t go to bed without an update over here.

We woke up to freezing rain and were very skeptical we’d get any type of snow. Or anything more than an inch. Schools were closed, of course. By 8:30 a.m. it’d started snowing and I don’t think it stopped until after the sun set. I think we have about 8 inches total, which is on top of an inch of ice.

So, East Coast friends, believe the hype! And enjoy your snow day. (Speaking of which, check out my snow day photography tips.)

My neighbors/co-workers came down and we went sledding! It was too much fun.

Gwen and I rode together with Darin pulling us behind a four-wheeler on our trail. We could not stay on the sled. lol. Then Darin ran us into a tree. Good times.

After they left, we went on a little hike in the woods. Exhausting! Poor Jenna and Jaiden were FREEZING by the time we went back inside. It was also past Jenna’s naptime, so she was a little frozen ball of tears and tantrums. She went down for a nap, the older kids watched a movie, I believe Darin also napped and I soaked in the bath and read more of Blue Like Jazz.

We had a great Veggie-Orzo Soup for lunch with grilled ham and cheese sandwiches. Mmm.

The soup was kind of an impromptu thing, a substitution for the vegetable soup we were supposed to have tonight. You can read all about that at Daylicious.

This morning I started working on some homemade cinnamon rolls that took hours to rise. They were finally ready to go into the oven about dinner time. Joy. The family gave them four thumbs up, though.

I plan to blog about those cinnamon rolls soon. Subscribe to Daylicious and you’ll see it this week. (Also? Surprise: only 6.8g of fat!) I was super proud of the fact that I made my own cinnamon rolls! Not at all happy about the fact that it took all day, but I digress.

And since we’re talking about food, tonight we had pork tenderloin in mustard sauce with egg noodles for supper.

Yeah, I had a super serving of egg noodles (that’s a small plate, by the way). Typically I fill the kids’ plates, let Darin fill his own and plate mine up a little nicer for photos. Just in case you ever wondered. For the record, it’s hard to get dinner on the table and photograph it in the process.

My favorite part of the day? When my friends came over to play! It’s just like having snow days as a kid when the entire neighborhood would congregate at one house. It was great!

Gwen, TJ, Tyler and Sara came over (and you can see Gwen has a pool in her hands – we were going to sled in it, but it didn’t work). Sara sits with Gwen and I and stayed with Gwen and TJ last night because of the storm; she lives an hour away and in case we had to work, she didn’t want to be stranded at home. Conditions are so bad that she is actually now stranded down here, but I don’t think she minds. I wish we could have a sleepover, though. That would be hilarious. TJ’s sister, brother-in-law and nephew came over too.

Anyway. I’m off to bed to get ready for another day of being snowed in. It’s still precipitating and our vehicles are stuck in the driveway. Fun times.

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