Snow Days

We have finally gotten a big snowfall. Living 14 miles outside of Salem we usually miss all the snow that Rolla gets. I love snow and don't feel like I have had a proper winter if I don't get a couple of good snowfalls. (Consequently, I never had a real winter while living in Virginia.) We got a few inches of snow right after Thanksgiving, but have only had lots of flurries with no significant accumulation since then.


Until this week...Monday afternoon it started to ice. Basically, little balls of ice, instead of snow fell from the sky, would that be sleet? It continued to ice for the next 24 hours. Then it snowed. We now have about 2 inches of snow over about 2 inches of ice balls. It is deliciously white outside!

Here are a bunch of pictures to commemorate the event:Here is Edmund getting his bundles on. Amazingly enough he didn't ask to go to the bathroom once the whole time we were playing outside. I had thought it one of the laws of nature that as soon as a child had all his bundles on he had to use the bathroom.

This is Jaired and Nathaniel. Nathaniel is under the blanket.

Here we are walking through the woods to my in-laws' house to go sledding. That is Justice walking behind me with his surcoat on. (I'll blog about his surcoat some time.) Notice how you can still see the grass and stuff through the snow.

Here is my wonderful and beautiful mother-in-law, Mary.

This is where we went sledding. This is the family's pond. In the background is the dike, which is what we sledded down. On the Flexible Flyers we took turns sledding to see who could go the furthest across the pond. Ellie won, she made it about halfway across!

Here I am with Edmund. He was very apprehensive at first about sledding and wouldn't go down with anyone except me. He did let Jaired take him once.

After sledding, Edmund stayed inside with his Oma. He ate clementines and popcorn.

He also thought it necessary to have a picture taken of his foot to go along with the other sledding day pictures.

When we got back to our house Jaired built a fire which we enjoyed for the rest of the evening.

This morning it looked like this outside.

The ground is completely covered.