Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow...

We had a pretty good bit of snow yesterday. It started around 5 or so, and pretty much kept going for a few hours. Stopped, then started up again around midnight. I'd say we got close to 3 inches. Everything looks so pretty after a snow. I know that this amount is considered a sprinkling in some areas, but for here, it's pretty amazing. There were more than 700 closings around the city & county--just about every place is closed or were on a 2 hour delay. Luckily, there's not any place that we need to be today, and I can do everything I need to do from home, as long as the internet connection holds out!

I just love snow--maybe not the technicalities of it (shoveling, ice, etc.), but there's something about waking up in the morning, and seeing that particular light shining around the curtains, the kind of light that you only get when there's snow on the ground. I love how it makes everything hushed, and clean and crisp. I love the sound of it crunching under your boots, and the way trees look like sculptures. I love when it snows big flakes (as it did last night), and just before the flakes melt on your hand you can see the intricacies that make each flake different.

I do NOT like cold feet, however.

So, I pretty much used the memory card all up last night & this morning taking lots of pictures, and tried to pick out some good ones for y'all to enjoy. Oh, I'm also posting Noah's early driving photos, too.

Enjoy!

This is Noah, sitting on his new ride.


Noah taking Hippo (pronounced HEEpo) for a ride. Note the bungee cord ingenuity.


LOVE this picture!!!!! He can't quite reach the pedals to make a full rotation, but he's almost there...he's figured out, too, if he puts the Big Wheel on a hill, he can zoom down!


Getting some last minute driving instruction from Daddy, I think.


Get yer motor runnin'....head out on the highway....lookin' for adventure...


The snow last night, probably around 7 or so...about an hour after it had started snowing. Note the big flakes and the accumulation on the railings & car.


Noah's first snowball! Actually, iceball, since it was a very wet snow.


Okay, so the pics are a little out of order. This is when it first started snowing--the white patch is where a tree used to be, so the snow showed up there, what with the contrast and lack of vegetation.


Okay, another random picture. Noah was pretending to be a CD player. I don't advise you try this at home, boys. (Look very closely at where the movie is attached...)


Another shot of him & Hippo, going for a ride.


Noah and Patrick, playing in the snow. About 2 hours after this, you couldn't see where their footprints had been on the back deck.


Looking at the snow falling.


Lots & lots of snow!


I think it's just the camera angle, but I like how it looks like a big flake landed on his nose.


Playing on the deck...

This morning...
This morning.... Those plants to the right of the frame are usually standing up so high that it's impossible to see the house behind them.


Note the accumulation on the railings, and you can sorta tell there are cars back there...


This was last night, around midnight. I love how the flash hits on the snowflakes.