A White Christmas

I have several things to catch up on and hope to do that tomorrow when the kids return to school, but I did have a moment to get these up today during lunch when all three kids overlapped their naps (so rare!).

We were at my mom's this year for Christmas so we missed the snow at our house, but there was plenty at her house. My sister and her crew weren't coming over for the family festivities until the afternoon so after breakfast I bundled the kids up and headed out to play in the snow. Of course, being in Texas, I didn't have gloves or snow boots (I left the rain boots at home :-). Oh well, how often do we get a white Christmas!
The kids were excited and ran out to play in the snow. It was too soft to build a snowman, but it was fun to throw in the air. However, after just 15 minutes of running around in the snow, the kids started crying because their hands hurt they were so cold and wet, their pants and shoes were soaked too. We came back inside and had Grandpa start a fire to get warm.

Love this shot of Abby!!!
They loved making tracks.

And of course Lily didn't miss out on the snow. She didn't get to play in it, but just looked on from the patio.