A Wonderful Day

In contrast to today, which is cloudy, cooler and dreary, yesterday was a beautiful day!!

It was over 30 degrees, and there was beautiful sunshine! Ah...life giving sunshine.

I had some things to do at the Social Security office (it turned out that I needed to go to the IRS office instead...sounds scary but it wasn't) for our newest adopted kids before we could do our taxes. Never one to love to do those things, I asked my hubby to take the day off and he did. He had a work errand to run in "the city" as well.

We were going to take Summer and Jaden along, but decided instead to have some time alone. That it wasn't frivolous to spend alone time, but important. I actually wrote a post about this change of heart today on the Katelyn's Fund blog, due to a dear friend. You can read it HERE.

Even though we also did some shopping, NOT one of my favorite pastimes, we had a glorious day. What a treat! It wasn't busy, the sun was shining, and I was spending time with my favorite person.

When we got home I had to take some pics of the kids, too. They were enjoying their after school time too! I didn't get shots of them across the street on the church yard where there were HUGE piles of snow that they were sledding down. What fun!

Sierra in our front yard, striking a pose in front of their fort...

Shi sledding at the neighbors...

Svanna and Sierra, working hard at their fort. You can actually see some of the "snow hill" they sledded on past the stop sign...

Tye and Gabe building their own fort type structure, on the other side of our driveway...

Yes, that's Gabe amid the piles of snow~!

Oh, and in response to some who have asked, Svanna and Gabe (I don't let Summer out as much in all this snow...don't want to lose her in a snow pile! LOL) are doing quite well with their first winter. And what a first winter it is!! I'd say Gabe has his tolerance all built up, and Svanna is almost there. She doesn't have quite the cold tolerance as the other kids, but she's definately keeps up with them!