SNOW STORM!!
No school today. We headed outside of course. This is a picture looking down to our pond where we sledded down to. You can see the kids on it.

Matt took the second half of the day off. It snowed steady all day until about 2pm. then it turned into sleet for awhile so we had to quit sledding. We realized we needed to get all the new snow off the pond but when we tried to plow it off we found that it was too thick and heavy. Another realization was that the pond has been filling up by way of the spring and now water was coming up around the sides. We thought we'd try and drain the pond off a little bit but Matt came back up w/ this:

ok, it's snowy but it's the valve. the water from the pond was rushing out of the overflow until the boys could rig up someway to fix it, quick. and someone was going to get wet. matt was the lucky one since james did it last time. yes, this has happened before. they did it before too much water came out. We finished the night off w/ chili and relaxing on the couch. at about 9:30pm i heard a sound that makes me crazy jealous inside when i hear it and am not on it- a snowmobile. maybe someday we'll get a few.