December Snow

It has been a fun few days. Thursday they predicted a winter storm that was approaching Delaware and expected to dump some serious snow. I planned ahead and went to the store on Friday during school to prepare to be home for a few days. We ended up getting around 15-18 inches. Santa came to see Jackson on Saturday since he knew that we would be in Texas on Christmas day. Here is Jackson with all his gifts....

Jack got a couple of additions to his Geotrax, a new train that is driven by Santa, and a Tag pen that allows him to read along with books.

I made taco soup since I knew the high was going to be like 25 and it would be a blizzard. We ate leftovers tonight for dinner too.

Here's me at my first attempt at making fudge. It went over ok - I didn't get the fudge all poured before it started to crystallize.

About 2ish we decided to venture out and check out what things looked like. Plus Jackson really wanted to get outside. The snow literally was coming down sideways and was drifting because of the wind.

Here are Jackson and Brandon trying to get through the snow. At this point the drifts were around a foot and a half.

I took a picture first thing this morning right when the sun was coming out. The snow looked beautiful - but there was a lot of it!

Here are our cars.....amazingly enough it only took Brandon about 30 minutes to get both of them out. The snow was powdery and light - easy to move.

You can see how high it comes up on Jack - the sidewalks were cleared first thing this morning, but there was ice all over the street.

The only thing we didn't plan ahead for was the shovels were out in the garage. We walked down there this morning to get them out.

Here's Brandon trying to make a path to even get to the cars.

Jackson climbed up on top of the big snow pile so he could brush off the top of the truck.

Jack did a little bit too much of this today - eating snow. He wanted to try it and try it....

Here's Jackson after he tried snow with salt on it! :)

After a movie and a little rest, Brandon and Jackson went out back and attempted to make a snowman. This was right after Brandon picked up a huge shovel of snow and threw it at Jackson. As you can tell, he did not think it was funny.

Jackson standing next to the snowman. He soon after demolished it.

So that's been our few days of snow-fun. Definitely will appreciate Texas when we travel on Wednesday to warmer weather!

Tomorrow is Brandon and I's 7th wedding anniversary. How time has flown. I'm suppose to have school tomorrow, but its been cancelled due to the snow! Hoping that maybe Brandon and I will be able to go to lunch or do something fun to celebrate the day!