MOCHA MORNINGS

Our first official snow, highs in the 20's, college basketball on ESPN, hot chocolate, crockpot soups, ice hockey, cozy sweaters...winter we welcome you.

Kicking a chunk of ice down the sidewalk...my kids are easily entertained!

We woke up this morning to the first sign that Winter is upon us here in Cody. The mountains are beautifully blanketed with snow and the boys are super excited that winter and Christmas seem to be right around the corner. I wasn't too thrilled at the thought of the 36 degree high temps today, but as usually I forgot to grab my coat on my way to the office and surprisingly it doesn't feel "that" cold out....yet!

o ur drive home from church yesterday was absolutely beautiful. on our way to service in the early morning we were complaining about the cold, wet rain. when service let out, we opened the doors to a winter wonderland! we get pretty excited about this white stuff down here in texas!

...or maybe not. a bove is a picture i took Sunday. the first signs of spring. the weather was wonderful. it almost got up to 80 degrees that day. we went for a walk after church, the kids played football in the yard. we went out for ice cream. it really felt like spring was just right around the corner... b elow is a picture i took just a few minutes ago. just two days after our summer-like day. and yes, that is snow on the shurbs and the temp is 38 degrees. seriously??

i love snow. i love memories as a child of playing in the snow with my two cousins. building snowmen, making snow angels and having snow ball fights. i remember my grandmother making snow cream and me just eating snow right out of a tupperware bowl with a spoon while sitting in front of the t.v. when we moved from kentucky to texas in 2007 i had accepted the fact that we wouldn't get to experience those fun-filled winters and our children would grow up being one of those kids who had never seen snow. well, yesterday the unexpected happened and God dropped a little bit of wonderland in our yard.....actually about 6 inches of it. snow days are the best days of the year. it provides endless hours of free entertainment for the kids and to me, there is nothing better than being warm and cozy and stuck in the house with the ones that i love the most. thank you God for these special days. my cup is overflowing.

a bove is a picture taken this morning from my dining room window. r ain. coffee. thunderstorm. windy. hat. soggy. puddles. gloomy. mist. sleepy. fog. wet. umbrella. hot tea. showers. precipitation. cloud cover. change. soup. drizzle. flood. winter. cold. miserable. splash. muddy. pouring. coffee. weather. book. rain coat. temperature. dew drops. lightening. galoshes.

"For as the sun shines on Candlemas Day, so far will the snow swirl in May..." Woke up to another freezing day in Te X as and according to Phil, the ever so infamous weather predicting groundhog, we will have to suffer through another six weeks of Winter. Therefore, like the groundhog, I too would like to hibernate, only I don't want to wake up until it is at least 65 degrees out. And if hibernation isn't an option for me, and with four boys I doubt it will be, I will settle for a warm blanket, a nice bowl of Select Harvest Soup and a mid-afternoon sleazy, drama-filled movie on Lifetime !