Yes, another snow picture...

The morning after it snowed, and we see the sun!!!
I know, yesterday's picture is VERY similar, but with no sun.

I lost count...

I've lost count of how many times it's snowed. Maybe 4 or 5? Eh, it's been nice!! It's a pretty big change from the South East's usual winters of ice storms only! I've really enjoyed this winter. Watching it snow is so peaceful to me, nothing like a good snowy day and a book with the kiddo's, some comfort food and laughter! Call me strange, but something about the sky looking like a shaken snow globe makes me feel all cozy!! I love every season, I don't really have a true favorite; although, spring brings cherry blossoms and I LOVE those!!

Isn't it funny how when it doesn't snow, you often hear complaints about having none? Then when it does snow, you often hear complaints that it has?? Same goes with rain, and the temperature in general. Weather conversation is sometimes the highlight of the day, and I've heard that it's the most popular conversation starter when there seems to be a lull in communication.

I have a mindset that winter should bring comfort food, holidays and snow, spring should bring showers and blooms and spring cleaning fever, summer should bring the heat, swimming pool visits, and trips to the beach(yay), and fall should bring some of the most amazing rustic colors EVER!!

I'm not sure what's happened to me, but since losing my family members literally back to back in the past few years, I've become pretty grateful for little things in this life. I appreciate what the winter weather has done for ME. Slows me down a bit, and it MAKES me stop to appreciate even more what's inside of these walls. My family, our little family - rockin some snow days.

Peaceful

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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

snow fight

the snow is powder'ish (is that a word?), anyway - we just threw it at each other.... big E decided to sit this one out.

below, he's waving and saying "you can't get me!!"

oh.... but I DID get him!!!

a white blanket of lovely

around 5pm yesterday it started to snow, and we ended up with 2-3 inches pretty quickly.

I woke up this morning and had to snap a few quick pics of how the sunlight was dripping onto the fluffy white snow on the trees.

it's so pretty outside!!

snowy days

We had a little snow, and a little ice...

We may get more this weekend!!

no snow... so sad.

The first winter storm of 2009, and all we get is ice???

So I headed outside to take pictures of our ICE

More ice...

That's all we received... some drippy ice. Twenty minutes up the road, my dad's house received 2-3 inches of SNOW! My mom, 2 hours away received over a foot!

Below - my dad's house, LITERALLY 20 MIN AWAY!!!

exciting

We had such a fun day today!! Playing in the snow with the boys, taking a ride mid-day to sight see and then making a snowman at home... It's been SO pretty !!! I'll post some more photos later!

"mommy look"

I woke up at 7am, the room was bright and I knew the snowstorm had passed because the sun was glaring down on the white blanket of my yard and the brightness is almost blinding! Little J wasn't too far behind me waking up and when we got downstairs he said "mommy, look..... snooooowwwwwww!!"

We haven't ventured out yet...
But the view from our backard into the wooded area of the n'hood sure is sparkly!

I guess we have about 3-4 inches total, and it's sooo pretty!! It's melting a bit already, and sliding off of the side of the house and off of the outdoor toys, etc., we'll probably do the wrong thing, pack up the kids and head out to sight see.....
That's what my parents always did, so I feel the obligation to do the same :).

thunder snow

It's thundering and lightening, and snowing!! It started as sleet around 530pm, and then turned quickly to snow around 6pm and has been snowing about 1 inch per hour since then. Last time I measured was at 8:15pm, and it was just over 2 inches.

We're forecast heavy snow for the next 6 hours.... accumulation is predicted near 8 inches. And I'm SOOOOO EXCITED!!!!

This photo was taken at 645pm.

This photo was taken at 815pm. (same toy truck at our grille)

I wish it was daylight to take more photos of the white blanket in our little part of the world tonight...

recycling

We have been home bound for 4 days with little J during his yucky cold. We've been coming up with ideas to keep the indoors fun... so, this morning we did some recycling. We took all of our broken crayons and turned them into a new set of crayons!

I got the idea from here last year... Little J had a blast helping me peel, break, and sort them for the baking. I followed these instructions for the most part, I changed my oven temp half way through the project to 275 degrees because after 35 min the crayons were not even 1/2 melted. I read somewhere else that you can use the silicone baking pans for more fun shapes. I may run and grab some heart shaped ones and do those for Valentines day! Just remember if you try this, the pan you use will forever be dedicated to crafts afterwards!

2nd Snow

Last night it snowed less then 1" and our schools are closed {that doesn't happen anywhere but in the south}.... I'm betting people made a mad dash to the grocery store last night to grab their milk, bread and eggs. Why is it that a snowy day is the only time the entire south pulls together to have a French Toast feast?

The roads in front of our house are clear as can be and the driveway seems to be a thin sheet of snow with no ice... Little J woke up feeling MUCH better and was super excited when he looked outside and saw the snow covered yard.

Big E's going to be happy, for a not so typical reason...he has a project in class that he needed more time on last night - we had to make him stop working on it last night because he had TaiKwon Do class... so he'll be thrilled to know he can use a little time today to finish up what he wanted to do!

I'm doubting there will be any snowmen out of this one, there's not even enough out there to make snow cream or snow balls for that matter...

The sun is shining across the white blanket on my yard, that coupled with the bright blue sky makes for a perfect morning to sip on coffee (after eating french toast of course), sit by the window and stare out at natures beauty.