Let it snow?!

Since this was our last Christmas in St Louis before our move to Florida, the kids were really looking forward to a White Christmas.  We got sunshine and 48 degrees instead.

This morning we woke up to a light dusting of snow on the ground.  Ella was determined that this snow was not going to go to waste!

Snow Princess

 My sweet hubby got me a new camera for Christmas and I'm still learning how to use it.  The snow was a perfect backdrop for my little sweetie.  I just love these pictures!

Snow day fun!

We have had a lot of snow around here lately, which has meant days off from school and lots of outside play in the white stuff.  Thankfully Chris loves to sled with the kids, while I am quite happy behind the camera!

 

I was on the phone to England when everyone was getting ready to go out so I wasn't really helping anyone get dressed.  For some reason when the kids were sledding this thought popped into my head " I wonder if Ella has socks on"  Sometimes she will put her shoes on without socks, and I wasn't sure if Chris has just asked her to put socks on, or if he had helped her.  Sure enough when we took of her boot, there was a bare little foot!!  Thankfully I was wearing two pairs and gave her a pair of mine to wear.

 

The Weather Man may have been wrong!

They predicted 3-5 inches of snow last night.  In fact this is what they said last night before I went to bed:  "Around seven am we expect to have about 4-5 inches of snow on the ground with some light snowfall continuing."  They called school off at about 9:30 pm last night.  (I was grateful not to get a 5am phone call this morning)

This is what we woke up to:

I think we have about 11 inches of snow right now......

..... and it's still falling!

Perfect light snowfall

I think kids just don't feel the cold the same way adults do.  On New Year's Eve we had a really pretty dusting of snow.  Enough to make everything pretty, but not enough to disrupt our lives.

Riley volunteered to go out and shovel the driveway (We wondered where our real son was and who was this kid that had replaced him)  He did our driveway, Grandy and Grampy's (Elna and Howard) and our immediate neighbors.  Then one of the boys that lived on the block came out and said he would help him and wanted to know how much he was charging.  Riley said he was doing it just because.  That's my good boyscout!!  He ended up doing every single house on our block!!!  (Thank goodness we live on a short street!)  I will say that the snow was pretty light that day, and he pretty much just had to push it with the shovel, but I was still impressed - he even did the sidewalks!

Ciara went out to supervise and throw snowballs at her siblings.

Ella wanted to clean off our cars with a handy dandy long handled brush.  I'm praying that the layers of snow protected my paint from any scratches!  I told her to put a hat on - as you can see, she complied.