frozen

this past week we got hit with some VERY cold weather

or as the weather people are saying 'a polar vortex'

starting over the weekend the temps started to drop

and by sunday night they were painfully cold!

NOW ...

we have known about this for the past week

SO ...

last friday

for the first time since i have lived in minnesota

the governor actually called off school at the state level!

the kids were SO excited!!

i personally would prefer snow days when they can play outside

OR

for the days to NOT fall

at the end of an already 17 day break

BUT

we'll take what they'll give us ;)

it was VERY cold ...

but that didn't stop us

we met up with ben's entire basketball team

at the andover Y

for some open gym time

it was a GREAT way to kill some energy

and get them all out of the house

while we were there

our phones started going off

and we found out that they were cancelling school for ANOTHER day!!

there was just a TAD bit of excitement shared

and quickly plans were made to meet back for another day of open gym

it was NOT very encouraging to see that the temperatures in the south pole

were higher than our temperatures in minnesota

BUT ...

the fact that orlando was under a freeze warning gave me some solace

there really was no escaping it

SO ...

we made the best of it

and enjoyed our bonus days before the boys had to go back to school

NOW ... 

they are back at school

the sun is out

the forecast is the 30's for the weekend

and the days are getting longer

no complaints here