Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Tennessee Snow

On January 20th, we awoke to our first Tennessee snow (well at least for THIS move to Tennessee!). Ok, I know all our Northern friends and family are snickering at this "snow", but the girls were thrilled and insisted on running out in it before heading off to school.
Emma doesn't remember the snow from the first time we lived here so she especially thought it was cool.
Here's the view out our backyard.

And here's the view from the front door. As you can see our subdivision still has a lot of undeveloped land and we LOVE it.
So this is the same view but on the 28th of January. This was a lot better dusting and they actually cancelled school for this one. Funny, I know but I guess they were worried about the buses. It really was beautiful.
This is a shot down the street, towards the back entrance of the subdivision.
And this is our house, for those of you that have been asking to see pics.
A shot from the screened-in porch into the backyard.
Another picture of the backyard

So mid-morning we got a call that the golf course (attached to the subdivision) was inviting all the kids from the neighbor to come over for sledding (on the course!!), hot chocolate, and s'mores. I was hesitant, but we ended up having the BEST time. We met the nicest people and everyone was so excited to be out of school. It ended up being a wonderful day. The other children eagerly offered up their sleds so Hannah and Emma could have a ride. This was a first for both of them and it's easy to see how excited they were.
This is the golf course. You can see the roofs of some of the houses in the neighborhood way in the distance.
Hannah and Emma zoom down the hill.

Emma enjoys the beautiful snow.

Hannah gets busy roasting a marshmallow for her s'more after they tire of sledding.

Emma chows down on her s'more. What a cutie!

Although I didn't mention him earlier, Jake was with us during this entire excursion. He reminds me so much of Emma at this age; he's very much a "watcher" in new situations and so was very content to stay by my side and see what everyone else was doing. He really enjoyed his s'mores as well!
As we left the course, I just had to stop and take this picture. It's the road leading out and it was just so beautiful.

2 comments:

Nancy Alina Szczekocki said...

Love all the new "winter" pictures and love the house! Glad you all are settled and enjoying yourselves. We miss you all!

Jenn said...

Love the swingset canopy color Rebecca! It's also funny to think that we got more snow down here in La. than y'all did-ha ha