A Beautiful Snow

Snow was in the forecast- several inches in fact- so when the girls woke up to no snow...big time disappointment!

 Then several hours later- still no snow...where was it?!?!

THERE it is! Turns out it was busy pounding Durham (Alli was thrilled to eventually get about 11 inches!) before it made its way to Raleigh.

 It was officially go time! Time to gear up...

It was a beautiful snow that kept falling for hours upon hours...loved watching the kids play in the backyard while attempting to make a chicken pot pie- all while the world was turning white.

After all was said and done, I think we ended up with 5" in Raleigh. Not bad!

 After Luke's nap, we headed to find a hill for sledding. Turns out there wasn't quite enough yet to make that happen...

  so we just walked around the neighborhood and made a sad little snowman (according to Collins) in Gigi and Pop Pop's front yard. By the way it was COLD outside...

 So we headed home to warm up our hands...

But as soon as we got home, we realized that was not going to happen because the power went off. The girls did not like this, but strangely enough, my husband did. He jumped to action pulling out all the lanterns and special lights he uses for tailgating. Then he built a fire and had us all kinds of light and heat going when the power turned back on two hours later. He was actually disappointed. :) I wasn't b/c it meant I could finally bake my pot pie! It was a late dinner for us, but a fun one.

The next morning, we woke up to a winter wonderland. Even Luke was impressed. 

 

It was definitely a pancake kind of morning with the official snow day.

We hung out inside a bit, and I had a scary moment when I almost got stuck in the car trying to get the large plastic flamingo out (don't ask), but finally we made it outside.

And found a great little hill in the grandparents' back yard. Turns out flamingos are quite fun in the snow!

 

 We tried out a few other hills and then headed home for some rest...

but were back out hours later headed to Adair's house for cookies and sledding. The girls had a great time!

Snow day #3 and #4 were a bit much, but we made the best of them. The girls were over the snow at this point so the only person I could get to help me make a snowman was this cute guy.

The girls missed out b/c it was perfect snowman-making snow!

That snowfall might have been the prettiest one I have ever seen in Raleigh. We loved it, and we also loved it when it finally went away. :)