Looking at the pictures below may lead one to believe otherwise, but YES, we are in South Carolina!! We have had 2 fairly significant (for here) snows in the past few weeks and it's been AWESOME, in my opinion.
The first storm arrived on Christmas night. We had spent part of Christmas afternoon with some good friends in Greenville and, while we were there, a light snow started. By the time we left after dinner, it was sticking on the ground and the kids were getting EX-CI-TED!!! At the same time, we were a little nervous as Nana and Pat were racing down from Maryland, trying to beat the snow. They arrived around midnight, and there was already about 2" on the ground, which became 3" or so by morning, enough to make a snowman! The girls enlisted Pat to go out with them and they got to work!
We'd only been back in school after Christmas vacation for a few days when the weather forecasters started talking about another storm, more significant than the first. It started snowing very early Monday morning and snowed most of the day, dumping about 6" of pristine, powdery snow on the ground. So yesterday, we went out while the snow was still falling and played a bit. It was such dry snow, however, that it was hard to do too much WITH it!
Yes, I know this is a farmer's shovel ...
Last night, we could hear the sleet falling all night and we awoke to a good 1/2 inch of ice coating everything! So today was a very "crunchy" day to play outside but actually more fun than yesterday. Tire tracks on our street made perfect sledding paths ... our neighbor contibuted a cookie sheet and off Cady went!! A lot of the fun was just pulling up HUGE ice chunks and throwing them down to shatter on the ice sheet that is our yard.
Baylee came out for a while too!
Looking forward to more fun tomorrow, since school is canceled for the third day in a row!
2 comments:
isn't it fun? the boys are beginning to think that it isn't "a special treat" to have it snow--because we've had so much this year! little do they know!
you're girls are too cute!
Wait, where's Ray? This seems like it would be right up his alley. The girls are so cute playing in the snow!
Judging from your recent weather patterns, I think I'll send you some snow boots and sleds! You might need them more than us :)
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