Snow Storm in Texas 2011

At around four A.M. we woke up to the sound of ice hitting the windows and knew that the winter storm that was predicted to hit had finally come. The entire week was school free and work free due to the "arctic freeze" that hit Dallas and the surrounding areas. We started off our snow day with a few homemade donuts and were all excited to have the chance to spend the day together as a family.



Charlie and Linus enjoyed there breakfast together as they do every morning. Talk about total opposites attracting, we still do not understand how these two have become BFF's.

After breakfast we all put on our winter gear and headed outside to check it out. We started sledding down the neighbors driveway. There was a thick layer of snow on top of a thick layer of ice everywhere.







The scenery around our house was absolutely beautiful...it looked like a winter wonderland straight out of a Christmas movie.


Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday we all spent time outside enjoying the snow and the company of all of the kids neighborhood friends. They all played in the snow together and hung out in Sean's room watching movies. Even Charlie came outside to play for a bit.







Saturday morning we all got up and got dressed to make a run to Home Depot. While we were there they had a kids workshop so we stopped in and helped the kids build wooden heart shelves.




We decided to go back to Wylie high school and get one last shot at sledding before the snow melted for good. It was sooo much fun!!! There were quite a few people there sledding as well and the kids were having such a great time that we stayed for most of the afternoon.










and of course wipe outs! :)