Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!!!!

I cannot tell you how excited I am to have real snow in Richmond! We've had precipitation; we've had cold. But up until now, we have not had them together. Scouter said the last good snow we got was in 2000. We had a few sledable storms when the kids were really little but since then, only a few dustings.

But now!!! We got between 10 and 12 inches, starting yesterday around 1 p.m. and snowing all night long. It's even supposed to stay cold today so we'll have it for awhile. Taz told me going to sleep last night was like Christmas because he was so excited about tomorrow. They put on warm clothes as soon as they got up this morning and it was all we could do to get them to eat breakfast before going out to play.

Literally all of our snow stuff is in the mountains - coats, hats, gloves, snow pants, boots, even the snow shovel... so we are improvising with sweat pants over jeans and raincoats over sweatshirts. Taz is wearing Scouter's old workboots. And they don't care - they're having a blast making trails and trying to sled.

The only one who doesn't like it is the Dutch. The snow is deeper than she is. She ventured forth for about a step and then turned around and peed in the house. Scouter had to dig her a path and I had to coax her out into the yard. Now, Rainbow has her on a leash forcing her to stay out for a bit. It's pretty damn funny.

Here are some more pics from this morning: