Wish Granted

On the last night of Christmas vacation, we were all wishing that it would last longer. It was seriously too short this year! Nobody felt ready to go back to school yet--and a lot of people from Salmon apparently felt the same, because I saw multiple facebook statuses saying as much! 

A little miracle happened that night: we received a few inches of super wet, dense snow. And then the weather turned freezing cold. So the next morning when the snowplows were plowing the heavy snow off the roads on the bar hill in town, the moisture left from the snow froze and turned the roads into sheets of solid ice. It was very dangerous, and the school decided to postpone the starting time by 2 hours. But then, the snowplows were even having difficulties plowing without sliding off the roads, so this created an unsafe situation for the school buses, so school was cancelled altogether that day. 

Everybody in our home was SOOOO happy that our wish had come true!! That day turned into a free vacation day, and we all enjoyed it immensely. I worked on a college class, and the boys played outside in the snow for hours, and by the end of the day, we finally felt ready to go back to school. It was a heavenly gift that we'd all appreciated! 

Ammon by the snow fort that he & Kanyon built.

Micah by the snow fort that he & Jonah built.

When we did go to school the next day, the kids were so excited to play in the snow at recess! I'm on every recess duty every day at school, and I like seeing when the kids are happy to be outside! It was fabulous packing snow, and a whole bunch of 2nd graders worked on building a snow fort together. Unfortunately, during the big kid recess, some 4th or 5th graders took apart their snow fort. That didn't stop the little guys. The next recess, they worked on building it again! It happened again the following day, so I got a picture of the crowd before recess was over in case the fort got broken again (which it did). I loved watching these guys be so resilient, and using teamwork to achieve a common goal!