Snow!

Last week it snowed 6-8", which is just unheard of here. In the nearly 8 years we've lived here, the most I've seen is half this amount. Austin said he's never seen this much here. Fortunately the snow came Friday night; as it was the schools were still closed or delayed all week, but at least it bought us a few more days. The glaciers have now receded and there's just some icy patches left. A few pics from Saturday.

Ainsleigh went sledding Rippy couldn't figure out what was going on and why he wasn't back inside
A & A

Ripken's final assessment of the whole thing: So that was Saturday. Sunday we couldn't convince anyone to play outside in the snow. Ainsleigh ran around the house in a tank top and shorts and said she wanted it to be summer. I wasn't even going to try again with Rippy. I felt like we truly had two Carolina kids: We finally had snow and they didn't want anything to do with it!

On Tuesday we had to get out of the house (they never plowed our road, and there was a layer of ice, then 6" of snow, then another layer of ice), so we went for a walk. Things were beginning to melt and Ainsleigh liked the sunshine and marching through the snow. So maybe she just doesn't like the east coast version of winter but would like CO or MT where they have powder & sun. I'll still hold out some hope that they will return to my northern skiing roots!