Today's been super boring. All I did was paint my nails.

...are you kidding me, today was AWESOME!~ (so awesome I had to throw in the little squiggle that Claire hates. Take that, Claire.) Waking up to not five, not six, but SEVEN inches of snow was one of the most wonderful things ever. I bounced around the house looking out all the different windows and dragging my dad with me. He'd been up for like two hours already and had seen everything, but he humored me and we had a great time laughing at the poor squirrels trying to fight their way through the snow drifts. Except I don't have a whole lot of sympathy for the squirrels, because they chewed through the wires in my engine, and my care is still in the shop :(

Anyways, so we had breakfast (French toast and scrambled eggs!) and called our neighbors the Heins to see when they were going to go out and enjoy the snow. Trey and Mary Ann are from Kentucky and have three little girls: Mallory (8th grade), Keely (6th grade), and Lily (4th grade). They also have two dogs, a lovable lab/retriever mix named Maggie and a nutso Boston Terrier rescue named Annie Lou.

So at 10:30 we joined the Heins in our other neighbor's yard (they have a massive hill that we always go sledding on) and sledded and all sorts of shenanigans until a little after noon. By then we were freezing our butts off and I swore I was getting frostbite on my back, so we went back inside and warmed up with showers and grilled cheeses for lunch. Totes delish. Then I finished my puzzle (FINALLY - I will be posting pictures) and played my lovely Playstation 3 until Emma came in and decided she wanted to watch Eclipse, so I got kicked off. But I couldn't sulk for long, so I brought a book into the TV room and curled up on the floor in front of the fire while Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner made Eyes at each other. Mmmm.

After a little bit, the Heins called us again and asked if we wanted to go back out, so mom and dad trudged out to the road to see if it was safe for driving. Apparently it wasn't that big of a deal, so they called up Aunt, Uncle, and Cousin and everyone but me carted off to White Oak Park to go sledding again. I stayed by the fire (tended the fire, thankyouverymuch), danced around in my room, and finished my reading for the day (have to finish a book for Wells by Wednesday) and generally lounged around until my frozen family returned.

Apparently down at White Oak Park there were all these college grads with beer and canoes going down the hills. Yes, you read that right. They were going down the hills in canoes and kayaks and kiddie pools and inner tubes. They had a four-wheeler to take their canoes back up the hill, but then someone else (we don't know if they were with their group) sledding into the four-wheeler and broke a leg, so the ambulance and the police arrived and police took the beer and all that fun stuff. I'm almost kind of sorry I missed the drunken dramatics, but Glee and hot chocolate kept me company well enough.

Well, we just finished watching Pretty Little Liars (super dramatic, ridiculous show, but it's good) and are chilling out in separate parts of the house. I think we're going to play Bananagrams in a second :)

I've had a lot of music floating around in my head, but a band that I've been listening recently that you all should check out is Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes. Crazy name, I know, haha. Actress Olivia Wilde posted about them on her Twitter forever ago, and I looked them up and really liked them.

So excited about not having school tomorrow, yusssss. Though I'm not really looking forward to going out in the snow again. Snow's totally gorgeous, but I get a little tired of rolling around in it after a while, especially since my mom is totally obsessed. Like, if it snowed for a year she would have us out for hours every single day.

Hope you guys are staying warm and loving this snow :) Enjoy your second day off!