Snowy, Icy, Wintry

I posted the pics on Facebook, but I've still got to blog about it. Apparently, we had been forecasted to get a big, winter event here in Tennessee several days before it actually happened. I didn't know anything about it, until like the day before! Tennessee is strange, and almost always the weather skips right around our little area, going both below and over us, but usually doesn't hit us. So whenever they call for some big, dramatic event, it never happens or only slightly happens. We also rarely get snow and if we do it is like 1/2 an inch. So a few weeks ago they called for some big winter storm, canceled school for 2 days and pretty much nothing happened. I expected the same this time. Thursday night they decided to close school for Friday. We woke up Friday to nothing, of course. About noon though, it actually started snowing. It was real snow, not little flurries. About 2:00 we had like 2 inches! It kept snowing all night and we woke up Saturday morning to this.





We had probably 4 inches of snow, covered in a sheet of ice.

Literally, when you picked up the snow, you picked up a sheet of ice. It was no good to play in. When you walked, you didn't even sink it was so hard! The kids liked going out in it though, although Sam couldn't do much because of his broken ankle. We wrapped it up in 3 Target grocery bags and a big trash bag, but it was hard for him to walk. Here they are having a little winter fun.





We really wanted to take them sledding at the school with everyone else, but figured it wouldn't be a good idea with a broken ankle. So hopefully we will have another good sledding snow next year.

We ventured out that afternoon, with hardly any body else out on the road. Tennesseans panic and can't really drive in snowy conditions. We made it just fine. We went to Target, Walmart, AJ and Avery went to see Tooth Fairy, and we went to dinner at O'Charleys.

Today, they canceled church pretty much everywhere. We stayed home and made a snowman.






It was Avery's very first snowman!! Sam has made one once before when he was 2, but this has been the only good snow in 7 years.


The kids are out of school tomorrow, maybe a couple more days. I have my final exam in one of my classes on Tuesday, so tomorrow will be spent studying. Yippee.

Here are a few more fun pics.