Tomorrow and Snow

Tomorrow is the big day!! Sasha's flight gets in at 6:15 p.m.  Please pray for all the orphans and chaperons traveling.  The children from Sasha's orphanage had to endure an 18 hour train ride, on a train that makes Amtrak seem like the most luxurious form of transportation on Earth, followed by a flight to Amsterdam, a layover, and then a flight to Atlanta.  Other children had similar, extremely long travel experiences.

We are really looking forward to meeting Sasha and pray that he will adjust quickly to being here.  I will definitely keep y'all updated.

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In other news, today we enjoyed a snow day!  (And in Atlanta a snow day means we had about an hour of flurries.)

The kids ran out on to the Deck to catch snowflakes on their tongues and slide around on the slick surface.

They had blast.

For about 15 minutes...

Charlie didn't even last that long.  He was outside for about 5 minutes before he came scampering back in saying, "I cold, Mom!"

Alex and I were the smart ones...we preferred to spend our snow day here instead.  

Does this count as a white Christmas?

PSF and Snowball Fight!!

If you're a boy, the best thing about the snow is the snowball fight.

Seriously, what boy doesn't love an opportunity to throw something at another person and not get in trouble for it?

My husband started it.

But this guy was prepared to fight back.

He had some pretty good defensive moves too.

Until he became predictable, that is.

And when the snowball hit him right on the neck, and slid down his shirt, he yelled, "I got frozen!"

And then he went from the "duck" method to the "run" method!

Hosted by Cecily and Lolli

Frosty the Mini Snowman

When we had our snow day last week the kids were going crazy wanting to make a snowman.

Unfortunately, that day the snow was just too powdery and dry to stick. However, over the next few freakin' butt-cold days the snow actually froze making it much more pliable. So finally, Alex was able to scrape enough snow together to make a snowman.

Frosty, the mini snowman.

With teeny little acorns for eyes and buttons and a little baby carrot for a nose, he's pretty cute.

Almost as cute as these two.

(Anyone notice Jack's pink mittens? Despite the fact that he has several pairs of gloves in a wide array of boy colors, he opted to wear Melody's extra pair of pink mittens. Yes, you don't have to tell me that we've got some issues there...)

What we do on a snow day

This was the scene outside our front door Friday morning. I know this is small beans for some people, but for those of us who live in the deep south, this is serious snow! It was so cold, actually, that most of the snow had frozen into ice. Actually, 72+ hours later we still have some snow on the ground! (In fact, I don't known when we've had a colder winter. It's been mostly below freezing (even during the day) for over a week now. I feel like I'm never going to get warm!)


Since school shuts down at the mere threat of snow, we knew Thursday that we wouldn't have school Friday.
Once I got over the disappointment of not having school the same week we went back to school, we planned some fun activities.

Obviously the first thing we did was go outside and play. And I literally mean the first thing.
These next few photos were taken around 8:05 a.m. And it was 17 degrees out. By 8:15 we were back inside!

However, we did a lot in those ten minutes!

We "skated" on the ice on the road.


My angel made made snow-angels.


We tried to make snowballs but the snow was too dry and powdery.


And we wrote our names in the snow. (No, not like that! Gross!)

After thawing out, Alex left for work. The kids and I decided to walk to Kroger and Blockbuster. I have no pictures of that. It's really hard to push a double stroller on ice while trying to help a 5-year-old ride a scooter on ice without having to worry about taking pictures too. I was hoping that a walk/scooter ride would tire people out, however, I think I was the only one tired out!

Fortunately, Daddy came home early and took Jack and Melody ice-sledding!

Yes, those are laundry baskets they are in. (Alex's idea, not mine, but they worked!)

And finally we had a little home improvement time! My handsome, handy hubby replaced our broken kitchen faucet. (He's got one eye on the football game, of course!)

Did you have a snow day?