Snow

We got snow! School was cancelled, and the kids couldn't have been more excited.

 

Josh got to work from home, so we broke out our cardboard boxes and went redneck sledding.

Tanner kept trying to ride down on Josh's back. 

He loved it, couldn't keep a smile off his face. 

Warming up with some hot chocolate. 

 

 

 

The second day Tanner discovered he didn't even need a sled because the snow had been worn in and was extra icy, so he just went for it. At one point all three kids were going down like this at the same time.

Going up and down the hill was  lot of work so Josh grabbed Tanner by the straps of his snow pants and carried him up. Tanner loved that too.



Snow

We haven't had snow in 2 years and so the kids were beyond ecstatic when it came.  As soon as we saw it coming down we bundled up and headed out to play.  The kids are constantly complaining that we don't ever have snow despite me telling them we live somewhere where it doesn't happen very often.  It doesn't make sense to them.  It stuck around for 2 days, which was perfect.  I prefer this, Josh would love it to stay for a few months.

 

Ghetto southern style sledding. 



Hail-tastic!

Saturday night we were finishing up dinner when it started to hail.  Normal hail.  It wasn't a big deal so we opened up our front door to watch.  Within a couple of minutes it was getting bigger.  And it just kept getting bigger and bigger.  It was insane.  The hail stones were smashing into the ground and breaking into pieces and flying all over the place.  Later when we watched the news they said it was falling at 120 mph!  The hail we got was golf ball size, but other places nearby got up to baseball size.  It was nuts.  It looked like there were snowballs covering the ground.  When it started to die down the kids gathered them up and they're now sitting in our freezer, for what purpose, I'm not sure.

Normal size hail:

Craziness.  It came down in probably under 10 minutes.

She wasn't scared.

They filled up 2 or 3 of these bowls.  The kids thought it was the coolest thing that has ever happened.  Jayden kept yelling, "Oh my GOSH!  Oh my GOSH!"  And, "This is HAIL-TASTIC!"

 Josh lived up to this shirt by running out in the hail to gather it for the kids.

As you can tell, this is one of the most exciting things that has happened around here in a while.