SNOW!

It snowed ALL DAY here in Austin! It was amazing!
Joseph woke up first, and immediately pulled on some jeans over his pj's, grabbed his jacket, and went out to investigate the snow accumulated on our deck over the wee hours of the morning.


Brigham wasn't far behind, although he did get fully dressed before he went outside. He was just about to throw a snowball at me here.


Mosey was asleep, and I told the boys, "Do NOT wake up your brother!" (Mosey is a serious night owl and needs every minute of sleep he can get). But soon enough, he was downstairs, too. The big boys were worried the snow would melt by the time he was up. Not a problem!
He was pretty excited to taste the snow. "It tastes like nothing, mom!" All the boys got cupfulls of snow from the deck and poured strawberry ice cream topping over it to make snow cones. I'm not sure how sanitary they were, but you know what? You're only a kid once.


The boys were in and out all morning long. Joseph soon realized what a hassle it is to get bundled and unbundled every time he went in and out of the house, so he just braved the cold in his pj's and cowboy boots. My boys use my old high school cross country and orchestra t-shirts as pajamas. He's wearing my Mt. Sac invitational shirt from 1993, I think.


Snowball fight!


Here they are going crazy in the snow:


Mosey was enthralled with the huge flakes of snow coming down.


He even made a snow angel!!


Joseph made a video of the making of the snow angel:



He also thought it was great fun to smash snowballs against our back french doors. I didn't find that quite as amusing.
The front yard was even more impressive since there is more space to see the snow flakes.


Joseph did eventually get dressed, and he and Mosey built a "snowman" out on the back patio. They wanted to make a big one, but we don't have any gloves, and this was as much as their hands could take.


Stomping the snowman!


Snowman murderers.


We didn't get much schoolwork done today, needless to say. But this kind of snow in Austin is very rare, so what the heck.
Ben came home from work early, to avoid the snowstorm traffic, and he and the boys had a giant snowball fight out in the front yard. The dogs were completely hyper over the snow. Mister I'm sure has no memory of Utah snow, and Squirrel of course, being a Southern California dog, has never seen it. Chrissy, on the other hand, was less than thrilled.
I hope our newly planted garden makes it! That's what is in all those containers on the deck. We'll see, I guess. I don't think it was ever below freezing. I'm not sure what our total snowfall was, but we had at least 3 inches that accumulated on our deck over the day. Fun stuff!