The Blizzard of '11

I know, I know, it's not that much snow, but for around here, it was awesome! The kids got a snow day. It fell overnight, so we woke up to a winter wonderland! It was so soft and powdery too. Riley took his skateboard with no wheels to a ditch to "snowboard" and they had snowball fights and made snow angels. It was cute. My kids always look like ragamuffins in snow pics cause we don't have warm enough clothes so they put on a bunch of warm things and end up looking like they got dressed in the dark!

SNOW!

Believe it or not, we got SNOW! It started out slow and just a few flurries here and there, and then it started to stick, and school was done for the day at that point! Riley put on 3 pair of pants, 3 shirts, his heavy coat, and my gloves and headed out to make a snow angel:

Although there wasn't quite enough for that yet! Regan is much more hot natured than Riley, and refused to put on her winter coat, instead opting for a small jacket and we had a fight over her wearing flip flops! That girl was too excited to take the time to get anything warm on! But finally, we went out, we played around, watched it fall, catching some on our tongue:

Then we started working on our snow man! The trampoline had a ton of snow, and the kids scraped it together, then worked on rolling a ball of snow around (oddly enough, I had seen that in movies and never knew it really worked that way) but sure enough, you roll the ball of snow around and it picks up a lot more snow!

And finally, Riley stole one of my yummy tomatoes to make the nose, and used his hat and glasses to finish off the gangsta-snow dude. Regan didn't last as long as Riley, but he stayed out ALL day long, making a snow fort and throwing snowballs at David and just enjoying it. The schools around here didn't close early for the snow so we were really happy that we were home schooling and could get out and enjoy it, since snow like this is so rare here!

Snow Day

We had some snow flurries today, not enough to stick to the ground, but enough for the kids to be super excited. They've been hearing it was coming for days now and they woke up at 7 to come downstairs and see if it had started yet. Finally, just after noon, they started, and when Riley saw that it wasn't enough for him to build a snowman, or snowboard, he was mad and done with the snow. Regan and I played in it for a bit, catching snowflakes on our tongue until Regan decided they tasted nasty:


It only lasted about 10 minutes and then it was over. Sad because you just never know when you're going to see snow around here, especially this early in the season. We still need to get our Christmas tree, otherwise it would have been a perfect day to decorate.

S'Mores

It's supposed to snow here on Friday, which I will believe when I see...but I had to go to the store and stock up on nice warm foods for us to have over the cold weekend. And of course, can't have fires in the fireplace without the S'mores! Regan took a lightning fast bath (which is why she still has the wet hair) and then for some reason, they both wanted to catch their marshmallow on fire, but then Regan realized she doesn't like the burnt bits. I hope it does snow and we can have fun outside with it for the day, then I want my 70 degrees back! I'm so cold!

Let it Snow! {Texas Style}

The kids were pretty shocked to wake up to some white powder! Granted, it's not much, but hey, around here, we'll take what we can get! Riley bundled up, he's into wearing hats now that he has such short hair, today's hat du jour was a Santa Hat, complete with Santa scarf, and Tony Hawk hoody, and was out the door before breakfast to play in it. Of course, he was right back inside in about 2 minutes with frost bite! Regan was a little more skeptical, but she went out briefly, she's just not a morning girl (takes after her momma!)