You Knew it Was Coming

It's the obligatory snow-day blog!! Can you BELIEVE two days ago we were basking in the warmth of mid-70 degree weather!!?

Still, I love this weather, too. I can't help it...I turn into a big kid again when it snows. I love looking at it as it falls and love how everything looks when covered in beautiful, white powder.
Although this time is a little different. It isn't fun outside. The wind chill is in the NEGATIVE degrees. As in less than zero.

No. Thank. You.

We did go out long enough to get pictures. And it wasn't much fun anyway because there was a little bit of snow on top of a big layer of ice. No snowmen making for us this time around.

(As a side note, here's a picture of the fence Brent built...didn't he do a GREAT job!?)

The girls immediately began making snow angels.

Then they started throwing "snowballs", which pretty much fell apart mid-air.

Hope was just precious...so frisky and LOVING the cold air! She chased the girls all around the yard!

The wind was (and still is) ridiculous...48 mph with those negative wind chills...YIKES!

See?? Even the dog needs to take a minute to catch her breath...it freezes your lungs!

Lauryn created her own "sled". She couldn't wait to go careening down the hill.

Except we don't really have a hill in our yard. After the rope broke when she tried to pull Allie, she gave up and thought she would just push her instead.

Didn't quite work out.

Allie thought she'd give it a try.

No luck.

Because I completely forgot the last time we had a big snow, I wanted to be sure and try to make snow ice cream! We were so excited!

Then, after mixing the milk, sugar, and vanilla, I started to stir in the snow.

And I noticed a small black thing.

And it was a bug.

A frozen one.

We weren't very hungry for ice cream after that.