Snow Heaven

The boys had a great day in the snow and we had some good laughs watching and listening to them. When Zachary woke up and saw the snow, I asked him, "what's that?" He said "um, it's raining?" and later told Aunt Doe that it was white rain. Josh saw it and said "wow, cool!" They immediately, PJ's or not wanted to go out in it. We had made the mistake when we first came here of telling the boys that we would get to see snow here in Colorado, but first it would be Halloween, then Thanksgiving and then at Christmastime it would snow. So one of the next things they said was - "Is Santa here?" "Where's my presents". A little while later I could hear them out back yelling "It's Christmas Eve!" Later, I stepped out on the balcony to take more photos (I think I took about 60 photos today, plus some videocam time) a car horn honked and Zachary yelled up to me, "Happy New Year, mom!" The snow immediately threw them into Christmas and New Years- I guessed we sort of messed them up on that one! They could have spent all day out there playing- there was snowball fights, running, eating snow, playing house and work and bears. We had to make them come in every couple hours to warm up and dry off a bit. They had red little noses and faces, but were loving every minute of it. At one point I did not see them in the yard so I stepped out and called to them. They emerged from under the balcony and said they had found "suckers" and they were really good. Their first discovery of icesicles.