Playing Outdoors

We got a good 12-14 inches of snow between yesterday and today. It has yet to stop snowing and they're predicting another 8-12 inches for tomorrow. And then some freezing rain for Christmas Eve and Christmas.
Oh, goody.
But the snow kept the kids fascinated yesterday. Here was the view from inside the house:

And here is a view of the urchins just dying to get outside taken from the front yard:
But, even though we're still about a week behind in laundry and cleaning the house (and let's not even think about the Christmas wrapping) we decided to play outdoors this morning. The biggest challenge was getting dressed. Sam was, shall we say, less than thrilled to be bundled up.

But he didn't seem to mind it once we plopped him in a snowpile.

Caroline helped Dada a lot with the shoveling and roof raking, but enjoyed playing with the wind chimes the most.

Then we were able to go next door to play on the swings, which Sam loved.