First Snowfall

It snowed today! This is something that made me a little hesitant to want to move to Utah, because me and snow just haven't had the best relationship in the past. It's even tried to kill me once, but I decided today to be the bigger person and to like snow, hopefully snow will decide to play nice too. The kids really make this easier too since they both were so excited to play in the white powder.

To see their enthusiasm over the snow and the thrill of just stomping around in it makes it totally worth me getting over my dislike of it. Okay, I should clarify and say I don't hate snow, I just want to visit it and leave it there, not live with it. But it is so beautiful to see everything blanketed in white and feel the crispness of the air. It  almost makes you feel like your secluded up in the mountains instead of surrounded by tons of people all of the time.  We did have to go to the store to buy the kids some gloves and boots and a hat for Elijah. That was the only drawback from the day since they couldn't play too long without us going to the store first. Luckily, I thought a little ahead and bought them jackets for snow while I was still in California visiting.

As soon as Jed said there was snow outside this morning, Elijah was clamoring to get outside.
Their first touches of snow:

Don't you love Elijah's pajamas?

Elijah trying to throw snowballs

All day Elijah wanted to try to build a snow man "like Calliou" but it wasn't wet enough to actually make one

Elijah thought it was really cool that icicles were coming down off the tree

it does make everything so pretty

 Watching the sun slowly disappear through the snow covered trees