More Snow!

Boy was I wrong to think that our first snow might be the only snow we would get this year... we just had the craziest week of winter storms that I can remember in Dallas.  School was canceled 4 days in a row and then one more day the next week because the roads were so iced over.  It's one thing to have all 3 kids home all day for a week, but it's a whole other level of insanity when you can't leave your house! We tried to make the best of it though...watching movies and having picnic lunches in the living room, playing the Wii, and having mandatory family nap time (my favorite).  The ice was awful, but then we got 6 inches of snow dumped on top and we could at least have some fun.

John took the boys sledding at the neighborhood golf course, but didn't get any photos. Glad I snapped a few before they took off...

Ben found a giant icicle

Matt Mo making a snow angel

Just plain goofy excited about going sledding

While they were gone, Sadie and I enjoyed the quiet, and the beautiful scenery...

She thought it was great fun for about 10 minutes. I knew this face (and red nose) meant it was time for us to head in...

We've thawed out for the most part now and we're all happy to be back in our normal routine...especially the part where the boys go to school (wink, wink).

SNOW!

We got our first (and maybe our only?) snow of the winter the second weekend in January. When we drove to church that morning it was cold and rainy. By the end of church it had turned into snow and the kids were thrilled, of course. By the time we made it to Granny & Pops' house for dinner, their backyard looked like a magical winter wonderland...

They thought Pops' homemade root beer snow cones were pretty cool...

They didn't get to play for long before it got dark, but school was delayed a couple hours the next morning and we were able to enjoy the snow some more...

Our pitiful little snowman (and the snow) actually hung around for a few days... a pretty rare occurrence. The boys keep wondering when it's going to snow again and I hate to break it to them that it might not. You just never know what you're gonna get here in Texas!

Snow Day!

I obviously hadn't been keeping up with the news since I thought yesterday's winter storm was just going to be the typical Texas snow and disappear in a few hours. I still can't believe that it snowed ALL day and night and we woke up to the most snow I've ever seen (in Texas anyway)! I dug out our pitiful supply of snow clothes and let the boys have at it...

Everything's more fun with Granny and Pops, so we headed over to their house to play...

We even found an awesome hill for the boys to sled down...on a plastic pool floatie of all things - only in Texas! It worked really well though, probably better than any sled out there. I'm so glad Granny and Pops were there to help because the big fat pregnant lady is not of much use these days...

We were soaked by the time we had to drag them home, but I think they would have stayed out there all day... must be that little bit of Utah blood they have in them!