Of Yellow Snow and Tempting Fate

We woke up to a beautiful blanket of several inches of snow Saturday morning (our first significant snow of the winter!) and the kids couldn't wait to get out in it.  One of their very favorite things to do in the snow is make snow cones using fresh snow and fruit juice, so right away they got bundled up and I supplied them with cups and a squirt bottle of apple juice, and they were quite happy.

Then later in the morning, while Jack was at a birthday party and Cat was practicing piano before a babysitting gig, Eliza and Luke had a cold-weather play date with Whit.  Thank you to Suz for sharing her pictures!

After general snow-play, Ben and Suz put an extreme spin on the day by bringing the kids to the hot tub in their apartment complex.  They didn't just stay in the hot tub, though, they also did a reverse-Polar-Bear-plunge.  I was more than a little nervous that someone would end up sick from this little exercise, but Suz was right and nobody has gotten sick, so that's good.  Also, they had a blast!