Snow Cave in our Front Yard

Wow, it's been a gorgeous sunny weekend. Actually perfect weather by Alaska standards. Sunny and just enough below freezing to play in the snow without getting wet. Yesterday, my husband and youngest went with their boyscout pack up to Glen Alps (above Anchorage) and built snow caves and went sledding on a fast mountain side. Today was another beautiful day and the boys and their dad finished up the snow cave they've been working on in our front yard. Last year, we didn't quite get enough snow to build one, but not so this year. It also help that the street snow blower came by and left a nice hardpacked pile of snow for them. The boys went right out first thing this am to work on it. Even the dogs joined in on the fun. Betty (my blue girl) especially loved running through the tunnels, barking away. What a difference from the previous two weekends.

And, to top it all off, my son's Religious Exploration Class at our church (Unitarian Universalists) raised over $250.00 for the Malawi School with their "Soup Sunday".