Sunday, December 20, 2009

An Early Snow

Well, early for the south anyway. Since the weathermen were calling for snow flurries the first weekend of this month, we decided to head back up to our cabin in North Carolina (we had just been there the previous weekend for Thanksgiving). We knew that if we were getting flurries in our area, then most likely there would be some accumulation up in the "mountains." Sure enough, early Saturday morning this is what we woke up to.


It wasn't even more than an inch or two, but we thought it was wonderful. Tyler was especially happy since his most favorite season is winter, and his one wish each year is that it will snow! Even though the kids had only had a few hours of sleep, they were more than willing to jump out of bed and get bundled up to head outside and play in it.

They first walked up the hill with Pawpaw. That's our cabin in the background.


Then we decided to go for a drive up into the higher mountains to see if we could find even more. It was a beautiful drive!



As the sun came out and it warmed up a bit, the snow started melting rather quickly. We decided to stop and play one last time before it was completely gone.

Tyler got to make his snow angel...


And Allison was amazed with how the snow stuck to her clothes and mittens.


They spent most of their time throwing snowballs at Daddy...

And thought it was hysterical!


It was a FUN day!

6 comments:

Carlia said...

how fun! I love the waterfall picture. so beautiful.

Vanessa said...

Sad we missed it. Beautiful pictures of the bridge and waterfall. I know the kids did have a blast, I just wish they could be out here with Lana and Kayden in the deeper snow. I'm hoping to get up a post sooner rather than later.

King J, Queen M, Princess E and Princess M said...

What a fun time!

Jaedyn, Landon, Tanner and Baby Bryn said...

Awesome pictures! Looks like a lot of fun!

Finn's Mom said...

Hi Wendy! I was so glad to see your comment. I always feel like I am posting and no one is actually reading - please do add me to your blog roll. Your family is gorgeous and I love the snow pictures - I am jealous!

Anonymous said...

It was a FUN day most definitely!! I loved seeing Tyler and Allison all bundled up and playing in the snow. It gets more and more fun every year as they get older. I remember last year when we did the same thing about the same time of the year right after Thanksgiving. So happy we could go again this year. I was so glad you all could come back up to the cabin that weekend. I wish our Quans could have come too. Oh well, I bet they were even more excited to go where there was more snow than we had. Love you all. Grandma