It snowed!

Ok. This is weird.  Around lunch time yesterday the temperature was 60 degrees.  By 6 p.m. it was raining and the temperature dropped thirty degrees. 

The weather forecasters were predicting snow and there were tons of closings and delays scrolling across the bottom of our tv screen all afternoon.  Sophia's school didn't announce their Wednesday closing until 8 p.m. when it actually started to snow.

As soon as the first flakes fell the girls were dressed and out on the deck.  

Look how excited Lilly is.

Sophia gave up pretty quickly and came back inside, but Lilly took a few extra minutes by herself outside trying to catch snowflakes on her tongue.

Just before bed we let them go out and play in the now a little bit because it was coming down so quickly.  They thought it was great for two reasons.  

1)  They got to play in the falling snow

2)  They got to stay up late

The picture below is what it looked like outside when we woke this morning.  Lilly actually woke up first and ran into Sophia's room and woke her up to look at all the snow. They both came running to my side of the bed to tell me to look out the window.  I offered to make pancakes, but they were already shoveling cereal into their mouths by the time I came downstairs. They quickly dressed and went out in the backyard to play.

After they got sick of being outside they came in to dry off and get warm. They drank hot chocolate, watched a program and snuggled under blankets. I threw all of their wet clothes into the dryer. When the dryer was finished I suggested we take our sleds up to the "big hill" at the entrance to the neighborhood.  They thought I had a great idea. 

I didn't take my camera with me, but you should have seen how much fun they were having. They each had at least one really long run. Right before we headed home I took a ride down the hill too.  Fun fun!!

We came home, had lunch and then Riley came over to play. Eventually they went outside again, but didn't last very long because poor Riley didn't have any snow pants or boots.  They were completely exhausted by the time I put them to bed at 9:30 p.m. They were allowed to stay up so late because they have another snow day tomorrow!   What???