Let it Snow!

Because this is the first snow my children have ever seen.

Because this is the first time we've had snow like this since we moved here (with the exception of like 1 to 2 inches when we first moved to this area...nine years ago).

I'm about to unload a lot of pictures!  Get ready to see some snow folks.  This is Zoe when it just started coming down around 2 p.m.

Mid afternoon in our backyard...the snow in our area never stopped until late that evening.

Josiah stood at the window watching it fall and stated, "Whoa.  Dat's a lot!"

Around six o'clock at night!  The kids could not wait and frankly, we just knew it would melt before they could play in it the following day.  And yes, we made Ceili Rain get out in it too!  All through supper she was staring at the window trying to figure out why everything was changing colors(at least that's what she said in babytalk).

The boys just had to snowball fight...they actually didn't make snowballs but just scooped it up and threw it!

See??

The best I could do with the camera in the dark.  It was hard to get it to flash at the right focus...the snowflakes were falling pretty hard.

Yeah, I was cold, had a cold, and very wet!

The first snowman.  As stated earlier, the boys didn't want to make a snowman...they just wanted to throw snow...so the snowman was made by Mark and Zoe.

We measured it at about 8 that night.  Almost at 4 inches.

Sunny's first big snow too!  She wasn't quite sure what to think.  Notice the see saw??

Insert Cei Rai cute picture break here...

She loved watching her brothers and sister in the snow.

The next morning it was still there!  All SIX inches of it!

It was beautiful too!

 

Of course, the kids had to get back out in it....

And the boys had to throw more snow.

And, after talking to Papa via Skype and seeing his Shriner's snowman, had to try and build one bigger than his!

And we had to sit our little Snow Bunny* in the snow...

"Who you lookin' at???"
Ceili Rain got to visit Zoe's mini snowman that she made, "All by herself."

*Yes, "Snow Bunny" has socks on her hands.  Being that we live in the South we don't need to find mittens, thick coats, and thick snow clothes for our children.  This snowfall was the most our area has seen in over thirty years!  So, socks it was!  She didn't seem to mind too much especially when the camera was pointed at her.