Snow

It snowed in Charleston!!! Riley was so excited when I told her it was going to snow. She watches Max and Ruby and sees snow and wants to build snowmen and make snow angels all the time. She watched all Friday afternoon out the window waiting for the rain to turn into snow. We went to our neighbors for pizza that night and when we saw the rain starting to turn she instantly wanted to go out and make a snowman! We did get all the kids dressed and took them out to play in the wet slushy mix of snow and ice that was falling. It was getting dark so we didn't want to wait too long for the snow... little did we know that it would full blown snow/blizzard within 10 minutes of us coming inside. Oh well, because the kids had fun!

The girls didn't want to go to sleep that night... all they wanted was to watch the snow out the back door with me. I have to admit that it was very relaxing and I ended up watching it until about midnight!

The next morning Riley was up early ready to play. I wanted to take the kids out right away because I was afraid it would melt once the sun came up. I figured out why they make snow pants and gloves... jeans and cotton gloves get wet! We weren't prepared to play in the snow at all. The kids didn't last long at all. They made it long enough for Jason to teach them how to throw a snowball (at me).

And they made a snowman (Jason was more excited about that than anyone). When we were finishing up the snowman I noticed that every step I took was a little mushy and the snow was melting already.

That was the same time the kids were too cold to move. But our neighbors came out so we headed over there to see them and have a good snow ball fight (my kids just sat and cried the whole time) and then I "made" Riley lay down to make a snow angel. She wasn't too happy about it, but once she was down and moving around she realized that was what she was waiting for. She then got up, looked at it all proud, and then realized she was wet all over and cried the whole way home.

The snow was pretty too look at, fun for a bout a minute to play in, and then just caused us problems from then on.... Riley got sick, lots of water everywhere from it melting, and a tree on our roof b/c it couldn't handle the weight of the snow. Now I remember why we live in the south:)