White Christmastime...

we got a little snow today in Nashville...

More snow updates

A few more notes on the snow..
when the boys woke up that morning, Aidan looked out the window and saw all the white stuff he said "Yes! Thank you, God!"
Bryce: "Boy, that sure is a lot of snow!"
Aidan: "Now that's what I'm talkin' about!"

Posing with our Snow-Cowboy

Yeah, I did finally manage to get the boys to come out and have a picture taken with the snowman.. this was the day after (3/9)-- and you can see the temperatures were way up and nearly everything had melted-- as we were heading out to Gramma and Grampa's house for a visit.

...and then it melted..

Listen to this. This is the sound of spring to me.. always has been since I was little. This is the sound we waited all winter to hear... and when we heard it, we were filled with dread. This is the sound that tells you the days of snowforts are ending and the muddy season is coming. At least, back home, that's what it was.
But here, less than 24 hours after it fell, the snow was melting, and fast.
Even before we finished the snowman, I could hear that sound, and I knew our poor old Snow Cowboy wouldn't be long with us.

Paddy O'Flamingo in the snow

Snow!

And just when we thought we might have seen the last of freezing Winter temperatures here, last week, we got a pretty good snowstorm. I'd guess we got 4-5 inches around our house. It started snowing here at about 6:30pm and snowed lazily through much of the night.. it was a beautiful snow to watch out the window that night..

Then, in the morning on Saturday, the snow kept coming down. We woke up to find this sight out our front windows.




And out the back.. you can see we're anticipating St. Paddy's Day!







So it wasn't long before Aidan and Bryce were scrambling to get dressed and get out into the snow... and I don't know who taught them to make snowballs, but they're both pretty good at it!












And I must say that eating snow seemed to come quite naturally to Bryce, as well!






Then, once the boys had tired out and wandered back inside, I was left to build a snowman... by that time, the snow was already beginning to melt (more on that in a bit), so it was good and wet and, with as much snow as we had, I was able to whip up a pretty sizable snowman-- bigger than I've made since I was a kid-- in no time. Here we are standing with our "Snow Cowboy"..

February Updates

Yes, okay, I know.. It's been ages since the last update..
So let me catch you up on what's been happening the last month or so.

February can largely be summed up with the following:

Flu!

For what seemed like, well, a month one or another of us in the house was laid low by some form of the flu. So while the weather was cold and ugly (and a little snowy, even) outside, we holed up in the house and tried our best to get (and stay) well.

But we did take a few pictures along the way.. so here's a look at what we've been up to:

Aidan and Bryce have been playing lots of WebKinz on the computer...









Bryce has been doing a little art..










We got a little dusting of snow (2/13/08)









and of course we celebrated Valentine's...
...with Transformers!