Now most of my family lives back east and although snow is no big deal to them, as ya'll get it every winter, it is something when it happens here. This year has really been something for us here in Central Texas. First, when the weatherman says we are going to get snow, everyone here in this house starts making jokes about it because snow is not something we see often and it really has never snowed enough for us to make anything out of it.
Now this year Mother Nature decided she was tired of us laughing and really decided to show us just what can happen here in when she decides we have laughed at her enough. For all of us in this house this was not a lot of snow, but living here where it seems like no one knows what to do when it snows can be interesting. First, the weatherman stays we are going to get upwards of 4 inches of snow. Well we ended up getting 6 inches. It had not started snowing when we sent the kids to school, but by 10am schools were starting to close and the roads were getting bad since Central Texas does not get snow often they are not as prepared for it as they are back east and we do not have salt trucks or things like that here. So after it started snowing things started shutting down. It snowed for several hours and then it stopped in the early afternoon.
As you can see the kids had a blast and at least our kids have not forgotten what it is like to play in the snow. One thing that I did think about when looking at these pictures was just how creative Alex can be. Here we do not have sleds and really no place to go to buy any since it does not ever snow in Texas. The kids have this HUGE hill around the corner and they wanted to go sledding so since they did not have a sled to use they came home and asked if they could borrow some lids from my huge plastic storage containers. LOL! This pictures are priceless!
Just to let you know by the next afternoon, you could not even tell it had snowed 6 inches the day before. That is Texas for ya!
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