Snow / Ice Day

The deep south experienced a winter storm Sunday. We got lots of ice and not so much snow. Since we are not equipped in our city to deal with ice it was a day off from work and school. Anna Claire ran in our room this morning to tell me we had not gotten much snow but she thought the across the street neighbor had gotten more than us. Then she said, "Mom, can we get on their roof to make a snow man?"

We went outside and the girls wanted to have a snowball fight. Lizzie had to work pretty hard to get enough ice to make a ball then she threw it at Russ. After our lack luster snowball fight we started skating on the street since it was covered in a thick layer of ice. The girls loved skating - who needs an ice skating rink? There were lots of people out in our neighborhood sledding down the icy hills.

And since we really cannot deal with wintry weather we have tomorrow off too!

New Coats!

Russ's mom bought the girls new coats to wear to church and they are too cute! We have needed these coats with all this cold weather.

Happy New Year!

We hope everyone else had a happy and twirly new year like we did!

Let it snow

We planned to drive to my grandmother's house on the 26th to have Christmas with my extended family. She lives an hour northeast from our house. However, the snow was still falling when we got up Sunday morning and we are not seasoned wintry weather drivers. After a treacherous trip to church that ended in us being told church was canceled for the morning we weren't sure how safe it would be to drive north.

Fortunately, the roads improved for us to make the trip and it was so much fun visiting with my family. Between my brother, myself and my two cousins there are 8 girls - my grandmother has great granddaughters. Ages: 12-6-6-5-4-3-2-1! WOW! All the girls play well together and have fun. This year we got to go play in the snow! Since we don't see snow we don't have sleds so we use laundry baskets!

Merry Christmas!

Lizzie and Anna Claire had a great Christmas even though they did not get a "real cat" or an IPOD touch!

Merry Christmas!

We had a white Christmas in the deep south for the first time that I can ever remember!

Christmas PJs

Every year the girls get to open one present on Christmas Eve and it is always pajamas to sleep in on Christmas Eve night. As you can see the pajamas are so cute! I picked this pair because they have footies and I knew Lizzie would like the silver sparkles on the top. Well Lizzie fell apart at the thought of having to sleep in the pants so she slept in her "sleep skirt." (I think it is a nod to summer time in the southern hemisphere!) Pajama fashion has become all the rage with Lizzie these days and I failed to deliver fashionable pjs for Christmas.

However, on Christmas morning it was very cold and despite herself she had to put the pants back on:)