Oh my the SNOW!

We had the largest snowflakes I have ever seen fall to the ground last Wednesday. (I'll try and post some video I took of the large flakes.) It was cleared out by Friday morning just in time for another round of snow showers to come through late Friday night. I feared it would interfere with Chad's travel to Middle TN and our girls' day, but the roads were safe to travel on. That snow melted away by Sunday morning. Just in time for the biggest snow we've seen in a while. Over night Sunday, we were blanketed with about 4 inches of fluffy white snow. I know it isn't as much as our family got in Middle TN, but plenty to shut down East TN and cancel Chad's work. We had a lot of fun playing outside and eating snow cream.

Late Fall Snow! What is winter going to look like?!?!

Several school systems have been closed all week due to snow and freezing temperatures. Today shut down most of East Tennessee because of ice all over! What a crazy way to end the fall of 2010. I'm a little curious about what the winter season has in store for us...

Snow Over Georgia

We were covered in 3-4 inches of snow after a few hours of serious snow showers Friday afternoon. It was an unexpected surprise since I don't watch the news and didn't know it was coming. I heard through the grapevine that snow was headed to South GA, but didn't know we were on the weather map, too.

Cooper was SO excited. At one point he was pointing to the window and saying, "Look! Snow!" He then preceded to get his shoes and attempt to put them on. We headed out, but didn't stay too long. It was still coming down like crazy and was super wet. We were pretty soaked, so we headed inside. Marlee and Cooper had their first taste of hot chocolate. Actually it was warm, since we can't say the HOT word in front of Cooper. Their favorite moment was adding marshmallow after marshmallow to their drinks. Yum! Yum! We all went back out after dinner and attempted to make a snowman. Chad squished his head when he went to add the eyes and carrot nose. So we handed our supplies off to the neighbors.

We got up this morning and had a wonderful, big breakfast and didn't even get the kitchen cleaned up before we were all dressed and out the door. Marlee made her first snow angel. Cooper was half loving and half hating the snow. Poor thing, he kept trying to scrape the snow off his boots! He didn't understand why his shoes were dirty. Ha Ha

We walked down to the playground to see the snow amounts they got and headed back to sled with our neighbors. As our neighbor said, " I knew that hill would come in handy for something!" Ha I was the only one from my family to give it a try.

My sledding attempts down the neighbor's hill.

Happy Snow Day!

It's 'snow" fun!

We had a lot of hype for a little bit of snow around these parts. Poor Marlee associates snow with Christmas. So when she saw it was snowing she said, "But Mom, it's not Christmas!"

I took the kids out for a little while after Cooper woke up from his nap. He was not excited about the mittens, but he got the idea once we were outside. Marlee agreed to wear her "hair" jacket to keep warm. A few hours later she told me she really like that hair jacket. I asked why, and she said because it kept her warm.

She was all excited to slide until she realized her bottom would get wet.

He wasn't sure what to do when we first went outside.

She was so excited. I wish we had more snow fall so they could really enjoy it!!