White Christmas . . . well almost!

So Christmas night it started snowing in Raleigh - not our part of town, though. It took a little longer to start snowing at our house. It was about 1am - so not technically on Christmas. We were still up playing cards with my family.

By Sunday morning, it was ALL white - and still coming down pretty good! When it was all done, we wound up with about 9 inches! That's the most we've had in years!

Here's a picture Grant took of a pretty red cardinal at our feeder in the snow:



And of course we had to take advantage of our great sledding hill in our back yard again. Olivia LOVES to sled - she is such a daredevil! We even let her go down by herself - with one of us helping her at the top and one catching at the bottom. Every time she reaches the bottom, the first thing she says is "I wanna do it again!"

Here are some pictures and a couple videos of our snow fun:

We also made a little snow man - Olivia named him Frosty! The snow wasn't the best for making snowmen, it wouldn't stick together very well - so we did our best.

Then afterwards we had to come in and get some nice hot chocolate (well, Olivia's was more like "warm" chocolate). Here she is cuddling with her daddy drinking hers:

We had a great time playing in the snow, but it is already melting away. It has been close 50 degrees yesterday and today. It was fun while it lasted. Maybe we'll get some more snow before winter is over.