Timber!

Well, the electric company finally got out to our house to trim the trees.

It surprised me how quickly(about 1 hour) they managed to trim the eight trees we marked,

the got them all to manageable length for Zach to finish taking them down.

Although when all was finished,

I looked out at all the work I have ahead of me.

Good thing I have wonderful helpers.

My little princess assisted my oldest

until she scratched her knee and was demanding an ice pack to help her. 

At this point, my oldest was the only trooper helping mom. 

Both girls bailed on me about 15 minutes into our project. 

The weather alert for snow got me a little worried I wouldn't get it all done.

And they were right. We woke up this morning with snow on the ground.

It was a little depressing until seeing the smiles on the kids faces.

How is this not exciting?

The first snow of the year, so I caved in and we had a 1st snow celebration.

My eldest has been begging to decorate cookies that I made

so I thought I would let them each decorate and eat one cookie(after breakfast, of course)

The girls decided to get bundled up and headed outside

 to make snowball soup and snow angels. 

Work will always be there,

but my kids wanting to play with me in the snow may not. 

So I'm soaking up every minute today of my wonderful life.