Snapshots of Snow

  The past month has been pretty exciting seeing that we've have had our first "real" snows since we've been here (we've lived here for about 2 1/2 years) about 2-3 weeks apart!

We've been enjoying snow days, hot chocolate, and snow cream while we cheer the USA teams on at the Olympics.  (So proud that we took the gold in ice dancing, by the way! :)) Since we are homeschooled we still did some school while we enjoyed watching the snow, but, much thanks to mom, she made it easy for us. :)

  The first time it snowed was my dog, Snickers', first time to walk in snow. Let's just say he wasn't impressed. Especially when I put some snow on him to take a picture. It's probably a good thing I didn't know what he was thinking. ;)

We were very thankful to see snow again and really enjoyed it, but as you can tell from the picture, we didn't have much on the ground. My poor little brother was trying to make snowballs to throw at us, but ended up throwing more mud and pine needles

than snow. Poor boy. Maybe sometime we can spend the winter up north where he can throw real snowballs till his little heart's content.

 That was the first snow. The second time was more like it. We didn't get as much as they were expecting, but at least it covered the ground except where the wind had blown it bare. :) After the snow was finished coming down, freezing rain decided to chase after it making us afraid we were going to lose power. (When you don't have a fireplace, candlelight kinda looses it's appeal, ya know?) Thankfully we did not lose power and after the fact I was happy it came. The snow/ice mixture made for some mean snowballs! And we were able to make a small←(I'm lazy) snowman, even if we didn't have the right stuff for his face and he ended up looking very unique.

   I just wanted to stop in and let you know that I have not totally forgotten about this blog, and to tell you about my life recently. I had planned to write more (my life has been a little bit more than snow!), but you know how that goes. Too many words for so little time to write them in. ;) So I guess that's it for now. Thanks for stopping by!