Let it Fall!

Friday night we got a cool surprise.  Snow!!!  We were headed up to bed when Maddie pointed up to  the skylight and clapped.  I looked up and whoa!  It was spotted with....snow?!  Of course I yelled down to Andrew in excitement, and sure enough when we turned on the outside lights we could see that it was snowing!  Bedtime was then delayed so Chloe could go outside.  We didn't think it would stick past morning so we wanted to make the most of it that night.  But to our shock, not only did the snow stick, but there was A LOT of it when we woke up Saturday Morning.  It was beautiful, and very very exciting for the girls (and us too!!).  Went went on a snow walk, but it took a while because Chloe kept diving in the snow at every possible opportunity.      

 Here I am brushing the snow off her face and neck so she can continue her snow quest.

Madeline was nice and toasty in the Chariot and took a crazy long nap in there.  I "had to" (got to) keep walking in loops around the neighborhood until she woke up, while Andrew took Chloe in to warm up.    Andrew decided we should celebrate the day by having an early Christmas.  We listened to Christmas music, and even had a Christmas dinner complete with (traeger smoked) turkey, stuffing, green beans, whipped sweet potatoes, and brown sugared acorn squash.  It was such a wonderful day.  I think Christmas at first snow will be a new tradition :)  The only thing we didn't do was presents but that is only because both girls crashed hard on the way to the toy store and slept like little rocks while we ran all of our errands.  Chloe only vaguely woke up to drop off a birthday card to "close-by Grandma" for her birthday.  I'll bet Donna didn't expect snow for her birthday, but it sure was a happy surprise for us!