First Snow of 2011

The girls had heard that there was a chance of snow this weekend and they were VERY excited! I tried to tell them that it’s just a “chance” of snow and that doesn’t mean that it’s going to snow {here in DFW there is always the chance that it might snow but growing up in Austin it NEVER snowed when they said there was a chance…and I mean NEVER.  Sure, we had ice storms but no snow}.  It started raining early Sunday morning but it was just a heavy {cold} rain.  Midway through our church service the rain turned to snow and by the time we got home from lunch we were outside playing in a winter wonderland!!!

The girls were so excited to go outside to play in the snow that it took all Lance and I had to get them dressed in the warmest & driest outfits they have.

And they’re off…

 

Let the first snowball fight of 2011 commence…

 

 

 

 

As the family photographer I am “safe” from the snowball fight so that I can take pictures.  That is until Lance and the girls figure I have taken enough…

 

 

 

The girls L.O.V.E. the snow! But I think there is one in our family that loves it even more than they do…Marty!  He has an absolute blast running around in it and catching snowballs.  If he could play fetch with a snowball he would be in Marty-Dog-Heaven. He’s 10 years old now, but when it comes to a snow he acts just like a pup again.  It’s pretty fun to just sit back and watch him go!

  

 

 

The camera went up and we stayed outside playing for quite awhile.  I went in early to start a fire {which was actually just “turning on” the fire because we got gas logs for Christmas} and to get a pot of Hot Chocolate going!

It was a great way to end our time in the snow!

The girls {mainly Gracie} were hopeful that school would get cancelled on Monday.  She didn’t get the whole day off but they did delay the start 2 hours so they got to sleep in.  I think it’s the best solution because now they don’t have to go to school on one of the Bad Weather Days in the Spring when the weather will be nice and sunny.  Winter is not over yet so the girls might just get their snow day…we will have to wait and see!