oh SNOW!

Hey, did anybody hear it's snowing!?
This is what we woke up to on Sunday morning. It was only the first of the storm. We got lots more that night and almost all day on Monday. Since then it's been bitter cold.

This is Estelle. For those of you not familiar- it's the name Evan has given to his car. Needless to say he learned quickly that it's very useful to keep a snow brush in your car.

Here is a view from our back door. It's so hard to get an idea of depth when you look at a picture that is covered in white. However, you can get a good idea of our fluffy cold blanket by opur patio furniture.

I tried to take a picture of a bucket so you could see how deep it was. Still hard to tell. We were guessing around 6" at that point.

Although the snow can be a hassle, there's some benefits too. For instance: If you're in a hurry to get everyone ready for church and you happen to be having 'Thanksgiving Dinner' that day and want deviled eggs, you can always set the pan on the back step and scoop some snow on top and those eggs will be nice and cool in no time!

Right now the boys are in the back in sub-freezing temps building snow forts. Paris is screaming because I won't let her out but she doesn't realize that if I did she would be back in in a matter of moments screaming because she is cold. Hopefully I'll get some good pix of the snow-forts to post in another week or so. ;o)

Happy Winter!