First Snow of the Season

On Saturday it snowed... and snowed and snowed and snowed. Well, it seemed like a lot to this Georgia girl. I'd say all in all it was about 4 inches. It was a peaceful winter wonderland when we peeked out of our windows on Saturday morning. Jeff and I thought it looked better from inside the warm house, but Lucas had other ideas. So we bundled up in our not-so-warm snow clothes and went out for the first time that day... it was so pretty.


See what I mean? Bags on the shoes... not too cool.

The first time we went out it was still snowing heavy, wet flakes and it was COLD.

Lucas loved it until his hands and feet got cold (about 45 min), but Ellen didn't seem to think it was that big of a deal at all...

Everything was WHITE!

Even Tyson was enjoying playing with the neighbor's dog...

Then Finn, Will and Ele came outside for a while. Lucas liked having his buddy to play with him...

The second time we went out was with our friends Marie, Olivier and Tikki. By this time the flakes had turned into something a little less solid and it seemed to be getting colder. Lucas lasted about 30 min this time around.

The THIRD time we enjoyed the snow that day was later in the afternoon when Kelly and Lincoln paid us a visit. By that time some of our neighbors had gathered in the street and it was a lot more festive. We didn't have a sled, but Mr. Craig had bought a plastic pail... which didn't really work that well, but good enough for these two kiddos...

This time I bundled Ellen up and didn't let her touch the snow. She didn't mind.

Cute little stinkers.

Mr. Craig's ride...

It didn't slide unless we pulled it, but like I said, good enough for the boys.

Mr. Craig kept trying though...

Hug break with Ms. Kelly!

Ahhhhh. This is how the first snow day ended. Bliss.

The second morning of snow was BEAUTIFUL. The skies were blue, the air was crisp and the snow had frozen a little so that we could enjoy sledding on it. We waited until Ellen was sleeping and then went out for about 2 hours. It was SO MUCH FUN!

Here is Jeff sledding on our neighbors disk sled.

And here is Will trying to get Emma to be his snow dog... didn't really work out for him.

I think this is Jeff and Lucas... Tyson loved chasing them down the hill.

See? He was in heaven.

Our neighbor, Gretchen, was so nice to push and pull Lucas on the sleds...

Later that afternoon we met Lincoln and fam at the park to check out the hills there. It was starting to melt, but was good enough for these two guys...

The Lady Bird made it out for this one... still not a huge fan, but so cute : )

They were acting so silly!

It got to the point where they'd make it half way down the hill and then dive of and fall-slide the rest of the way down the hill. Lucas' face was bleeding and he didn't even notice.

By the third day, we were all over the snow. The schools were closed, however, so we had Lincoln over for an afternoon play date. These two are such great friends... I love them together!

This was SO funny. They wanted to watch t.v., so I said they could watch the Chinese Education tape that SaSa got us. Teaches kids some basic Chinese words. After a few of the words were spoken they were tickled. Then after each word, like the Chinese word for "apple", they'd repeat the word and then die laughing together. So freakin cute.

Today, Wednesday marked day 5 of the snow and the schools are still closed. Tomorrow they are delayed 2 hours, which means we'll keep Lucas home again. We're having fun spending more time together, are getting cabin fever. We hear it's supposed to snow again this wknd... so maybe more fun soon.