Saturday Snow Fun

Today it snowed for about 5 hours, giving us around 8 inches of snow.  Ironically, when I was a kid in the South, that kind of snowfall would have sent everyone running to the grocery store to stock up for dear life and shut school down for a week (at least).  Here, it just a nice surprise to wake up to and means that we will be bundling up to play outside and then coming in for hot chocolate.

Now, over the past few months I've gotten really good at getting the kids dressed for the snow.  Let me tell you, it's not easy to get a 4 and 2 year old into a snow suit, socks, boots, gloves and a hat, especially when the hats and gloves are all downstairs, the boots are in two different places, and the snowsuits require the kids to sit and stand while getting them on.  But, we've got our rhythm down and we can do it much quicker now than we could at the beginning of this snow season.

It was great timing today because just as I got the kids in their snow suits, Bobby came home from his church event.  He didn't even come inside.  He just said, "Oh, are the kids going out to play in the snow?  I'll go play with them!"  Such an awesome Daddy!

I had to take some pictures of Joey as I was getting him ready to go outside.  How cute is that hat?  Thanks for letting us borrow it, Janna!

Bobby was burying Gia in the snow... she wasn't a hug fan.  She said it was too cold.

No animals were harmed in the making of these pictures. ;)

Some hang out time with Daddy while Big Brother and Big Sister drank hot cocoa.