Snow Day!

The first snow day of 2025 is here and it’s glorious so far! It started Thursday afternoon and the children were dismissed from school early. Parker and Ryan showed up. Then Chase and Landon W, and Richard A, then the missionaries. Then Joe and Mary with their girls to return our generator that they borrowed during an ice storm last year. It was a wild evening. I started a couple batches of orange rolls and cinnamon rolls and sent some home with to bake. My dad picked up movie popcorn for us.  

6-8 inches of lovely powder fell over night. It was magical! School was canceled. Q was invited to a 10am snow party and cinnamon rolls and movie with a bunch of Bentonville 1st friends at Henson, but aaron looked at the road at 8am and said, “I’m working from home until lunch today. I’ll take you into town but not until later.” He was only half kidding. “Later” meant he was going to hop on work calls and reemerge at 11:30ish. 

Quincy wasn’t missing out on fun with friends, and immediately told Aaron, “I’m asking Bishop!” We also thought she was joking. She sent one text to Brendan Hayes asking “how bad you want to drive in this snow? I got invited to a party in Bentonville at 10” And he replied, “we’ll be right over.” 

Sure enough, at 9:30, Fun Uncle Brendan is at the door, and a smiley Quincy ran down the stairs donning snow clothes and I was like,“I can’t believe she hustled you into driving her!”  

He assured us all she had to do was ask. I love the relationship my kids have with the Hayes. I sent them with a pan of cinnamon rolls and Quincy took a huge bag of popcorn to her party. 

The Grow’s pulled kids up and down the lane on a sled behind their pickup all morning. Esme and I walked the street delivering fresh rolls to neighbors, who were making cocoa and forts for the kids. My parents has a 2nd huge movie popcorn bag that they handed out to families. We gathered on the island to watch Finley pull Conor around with her 4 wheeler using an extension cord as a rope. They took out some trash cans lol. All the neighborhood pups were walked. Soren and the lost boys made some cash shoveling a couple driveways. Sloane discovered she likes the snow now and spent hours out with friends and some snowball makers. Here she is quoting Marv from Hone Alone 2, shouting, “Eat Bricks, Kid!” 

Bear, Remy, and the Maxes went in and out of their bear cave that Mr Ryan gave them wood to build last week on the island. We look like the Clampets with a janky lean to trash fort out front. Tarp and all. The kids love it. We are probably housing a fox. The Lost Boys are happy though! It was nice to have this type of snow. We don’t get it often. No ice, so it was relatively safe to drive as soon as Dartmoor was plowed, fluffy textured fresh powder that fell all night and day, and warm enough outside to spend hours in it comfortably as long as you’re bundled up. 

Around noon, Aaron took Corbin to meet up with Charlie C, Zoe Z, and Harper C to go sledding with their neighbors on A street. 


I kept the fire blazing, and puzzled in between feeding hungry people, mopping up snow debris from the entry way, swapping out snow clothes for dry ones, and helping zip coats and put gloves on little hands. Sweet gig. 



This pic is from Saturday, Corbin went with the Collett’s to the the razorback game. 


Quincy had the best snow day of her life on Friday. She met up with Henson, Gavin, Luke C, Luke D, Ella D, Indy and Gigi G for snow play and rolls. Then Marcie drove them over to Bethel church to sled the big hill of N Walton. They moved their party over to the green belt off A street where they met up with Luey G, Ethan V, Kate K, and SJ M to and build the biggest snowman ever, it had to be 12+ feet tall and they named it Smirky. 

Post sledding food and movie (white chicks) at Henson’s, then she went back out for night sledding with Gavin, Luke’s, Henson, Ethan, Indy, Gigi, Josh T abd Kelci Milker’s kids at Allencroft. 












At some point during the day/night she went caving with SJ, Henson, Gavin, Charlesworth, Douglas, and Ethan, then back to Bayles’s. She came home after 14 hours of nonstop snow play, and woke up ready to play again on Saturday. Ryan picked her up from sugar creek ladies lunch. and they shopped with Parker then joined Gavin, Ethan, Henson, the Lukes, Gigi, and Josh for hours of sledding and then to Van Slootens for snacks and games. I’m so glad she’s having such a fun senior year. Quincy won’t have to make up snow days as a senior, so I thought she’s be like “bring em on!” But her EMT course is through NWACC and is very intense 4 days a week with a quiz every day) started today. She got home at 7pm saying this is the last week she’ll be able to work after school for the next 8 weeks, then hit the books until 10. I’m so happy we had some snow to break up the grind and force us all back into vacation mode. I rotted in the same hoodie for 3 days. It was glorious. Today, I woke up a kid who had thrown up in the night and cleaned carpets and bedding for hours and bleached all the things. Thank you snow day for rest and balance to our crazy speed!