Snow Butterflies, Not Snow Angels

Normally the monsters around here hang out in various high places - nicely away from the cats and excited children. The top of the curtains are a popular spot. I think they like the view.

Anyway. Around these parts when there is a bit of snow everyone is surprised - usually it is just sleet and insta-ice on the roads. I’ve been in this weather, tried to stop, and the only reason why the car ahead of us didn’t get hit was…. they couldn’t stop either. Everyone just kinda slid for a while and came to a nice gentle sideways stop. Kinda nice when the boss says “if you see snow or anything close to snow, work from home - nobody even try to come in, even if the systems all go down, until this clears”.
Low and behold - we had snow. I stepped outside and couldn’t help but notice some tracks in the snow.

This, of course, attracted attention and somebody couldn’t help but try to toss a few (small) snowballs at each other. I think Saturday won by virtue of Not Being There until the other two were done.

And why is it that the little ones are always the ones that pretend to not mind the snow the most? Caught in the Snow Angel attempt…

Turns out Makenzie makes a better Snow Butterfly. An awesome butterfly, I say.

Then came the ” I’m cold… ” and the ” I didn’t even bring socks, can I borrow yours?” talk. Hmmm…. time to go inside.

Much better. And they aren’t alone either:

I think they had fun. But, it was a work day for me. So I did have to get something done. I would have let the monsters watch me work longer, but they had odd ideas about ‘helping’.

Makenzie and Saturday at the Dentist

Howdy Mommas keldar5 and april
We went on a drive in the country. Guess what we found?! COWS!

Saturday arrived on Wednesday right before The Blizzard of 2011 occurred in Austin. We hopped in the car and make a quick run for eggs.

Thursday morning, Aleah and I had checkups at the dentist. Mackenzie and Saturday made the waiting part a lot easier. Miss Aleah had another cavity free visit! (YAY) I had to get a filling repaired. :/

They also wanted to know what this funny box was for.

So Thursday night, the Blizzard was supposed to start but I thought I had time to go drink coffee and knit for a bit.

Heh yeah, when I left all the cars near the building were fine, but what I couldn’t see was the sheet of freezing ice that covered my windshield. Did I mention my heater/defroster wasn’t working so hot? I am so glad Makenzie was able to remind me to GO SLOW and what to do when the car fishtails. I was going slow and it happened anyway. It took us a while to get home because I had to stop and scrape my windshield way too often. Saturday and Mackenzie were troopers. All you guys that live up north are troopers too. I’ll take my horrible hot summers and leave all this icy/snow business behind me.
About 3 in the morning, (thank you Donavan) we were up and noticed there was white fluffy stuff collecting.
OMG SNOW! ok now both Makenzie and Saturday are sitting here laughing at what we call snow. It WAS snow (and ice and sleet and freezing rain along the way) but when we got up for the day… we had THIS!

and THIS!

My wonderful husband took everyone out front to play in the snow there. He has pictures too and he will be posting them shortly. :) (psssst alrick it’s your turn!)

Makenzie misses the snow storm

I wish I was in Texas, there's pratically no snow.  And Makenzie is enjoying it.  Here's another update from her on the road from TwistedString.

A quick picture of Olivia having one last swing on the bamboo chime before she took off…

Albert jumped right in his box before we could even take a picture but it was really loud today and we were both a bit absent minded.
Makenzie went with me to Home Depot for some pipe insulation this evening after we saw Olivia and Albert off. The big cold front is coming tomorrow afternoon.

Makenzie very astutely noticed that the lawn tractors were probably not big sellers right now. Even in Texas the grass is dormant for the winter.
Tomorrow we are hoping to visit friends before the weather gets really cold. Well cold for Texas. We showed Makenzie the weather report and she laughed! Lol
Eta: we are glueing the button back on her now tomorrow. It fell off :/