First Snow of 2011

 Although this is not the first snow of this winter season, this is the first snow of a fabulous new year.  Our family loves the snow, and since the south is just not prepared to deal with the lovely white stuff, I actually have been out of work and school for the last two days, and Evan has been out of school.  The city and state do a decent job of clearing the interstates and main roads, but they just don't have the resources to clear all of the secondary roads.  I guess it wouldn't make a lot of monetary sense to invest heavily in expensive snow equipment for the one or two snows we might get a year.  We are so thankful for the precious time we have gotten to spend together as a family, for the yummy snow cream we have gotten to enjoy, and just for the happy memories we have made.  The snowfall yesterday was beautiful with big soft flakes until late in the afternoon when it turned to a nice cold icy mess.  By this morning, all of the beautiful snow was covered by a very slick coating of ice. 


Evan's first look at the new snow.



Our backyard under a blanket of white.



Our house looks pretty in the snow.



Time to go out and play!



A family picture in the snow.



Going sliding in the snow.



Wheeeeeeeee



A family that swings together!



Uh oh, someone's going to get a snowball!



"Another snowball please!"  We had to keep him supplied!



"Thank you!"



Cousin Reade eating his rice cake in the snow.



Cousin Lanny tried to make his own snowballs.



Cute cousin Reade really loved the snow this year.



That's quite an arm he's got there!



Emma's snow angel.



The kids decided to decorate the wall with snowballs.



The big boys were up to no good!



The Crazy Kids...can't believe we are adding two more to this mix! ;-)



They were about to hit the photographer with those snowballs!



Snow makes them CRAZY!



Getting some energy out in the trampoline cage!



They had a ball jumping in the snow and throwing snowballs inside the cage.



Reade kept saying, "I want no ball.  I hit Evan."  It was so cute, and Evan was a good sport to let Reade practice throwing at him!