Our snowy day

On Monday(yes, Monday of this week- I'm blogging an event the same week it happened!) we finally had some measurable snow.  I really can't believe I typed that.  I'm not a snow fan... I'm not a winter fan.  I've loved this winter because we have had so many warm days and no snow.  But I have a 3 year old who so badly wanted to have snow and build a snowman... so I share that we "finally" had snow.  O was so excited when she woke up to see the snow.  I think I would have had issues getting her to go to preschool if it wasn't the day of her Valentine's party.  So here are our snow pictures....

As you can see, O is not leery about getting out there.  S was.  He also was a little slow walking into O's school to drop her off.  O on the other hand was walking in the flower beds because that's where the snow was!  As we were walking in, I heard one of the dad's who was dropping off his child start laughing and say "hey, save some for us!"  I look over and O has her mouth open and her tongue out trying to catch the few snowflakes that were still falling.  Yes, she didn't get it from me but she does love snow!

Funny side note... on the way home from dropping off O, S said "Mama, I eat snow."  I'm driving so I just say something like "yea, you can eat some snow if it's clean buddy."  And S says, "No mama.  I eat snow."  I look back and he IS eating snow... snow he has picked off his shoes!  I, of course, say "Buddy, please don't eat the snow off your shoes.  That's dirty snow."  His response... "why?"

After nap time we got bundled up again and headed out to make a snowman... something else O has been dying to do!  Thankfully it was perfect snowman making snow since we really only hand about 1.5ish inches.  Here she is rolling the snowball....

Putting the scarf on....

Trying to put what we found for the nose on but it wasn't working very well...

We finally decided on chalk eyes and nose...

Wondering what S was doing during this time...

Yes, not much can complete with the front loader.

The completed snowman...

Doesn't she look so proud??

I made S pose for this picture...

And because this is one of the strangest winters I remember this is what our snowman looked like in less than 24 hours...

Surprisingly, O was ok with the melting.  She just wanted to make sure we got the scarf and the chalk. :)

I said I would blog the second part of our Branson trip in December.  I just looked and I really don't have that many pictures.  The Butterfly Palace really was the highlight I guess!

Here are two family pictures we took at the "chicken restaurant."   They really were the best family photos of the trip.  And yes, S does have corn bread in his hand.  In his defense, it was good corn bread. :)

Later that day we went to Silver Dollar City.  We ran into a huge traffic jam on the way there.  Apparently the weekend before Christmas everyone goes to Silver Dollar City!  It took us about an hour and a half to get a parking spot.  It should have taken a 1/3 of that time!  Anyway, we got in and it was packed but we managed to get to go on a train ride and a carousel ride.  The train was a bit cold but fun since you don't get to go on too many train rides in the dark with Christmas lights!  The carousel was fun.  We have gone on carousel rides every time we go to our zoo but O always wants to sit on the peacock bench and not on an animal.  There wasn't a bench at this one so she had to sit on an animal.  I wish I had my camera(there was a mix-up with the battery- it was still charging at the condo when we were at Silver Dollar City!).  O loved the carousel!  Her face was so happy, I will probably never forget it! Now if I could only convince her to ride on of the animals at the zoo carousel!

The next day we headed home.  On the way we stopped by Fantastic Caverns which is a ride through cave.  I took a few pictures but none involved the kids so I'll only post my favorite pictures.