It is COLD here in Texas.
And by COLD, I mean “oh-my-goodness-I’m-gonna-freeze-my-tushy-off” weather. We knew it was coming, so on Monday night, The Nerd and I packed up and headed to my brother’s house.
It is much a much closer commute for The Nerd from there, and the schools I was scheduled to visit were closer, too.
We had a plan: The Nerd would wake up at 5 am (before it hit freezing) and drive in to work. If school was still in session, I would go about my business as usual.
But when the alarm went off at 5 am, we were in for a surprise. It was 26 degrees outside. And it only got colder.
The Nerd had an important meeting at work, though, and had to commute in anyway. The normally 30-minute drive took 2.5 hours.
I was *really* glad that schools were cancelled.
And so was River!
She got all dressed up in her purple coat and matching headband. Isn’t she a doll?
She was having so much fun…
Until the wind started blowing. With the windchill, it felt like it was in the teens outside!
When the wind hit, she grabbed her hair and didn’t put down her hands the rest of the time we were outside.
It was really cute.
The ground really wasn’t cover with snow, per se, just an icy mixture of sleet.
I tried to get her to stomp on it, but she was too light to leave any footprints.
The road in front of the house was completely iced over, so Andy took her out on it to “skate.”
I think that one day, my niece will be a daredevil. She *loves* anything that involves spinning or sliding or going really, really fast.
It was a really fun snow day! We don’t get those very often.
Is it cold where you live? What do you like to do on snow days?
Oh, this made me laugh 🙂 I live in Canada so right now, it's 13 degrees, feeling like 0. Schools are thankfully all cancelled here too though.
PS – River is adorable! I love all of the pictures you post of her.
I really enjoyed this post as well. It also live in Canada and this is what I would consider a 'fall' day. I am going on my sixth snow day so far this year, we regularly get temperatures in the negatives (yesterday when I got up it was -16 degrees Farenheit or -27 degress Celsius). I live in a snowbelt region so we get a lot of snow. Luckily I live within four ski resorts so we make use of them regularly.
The pictures are adorable. Enjoy your snow day!
WOW! Im by Houston, so they are saying snow by tomorrow night. Crossing fingers. Last year we got 2 days. My boys love to play in it.
Yara @ Once Upon a Twilight
Aw…looks like she had a great time. ^_^ We got the cold over here (FL) but no snow..or icey mixture even. Yesterday and today…we have rain. O_o *le SIGH* Enjoy it while it lasts!
Oh, River is SUPER cute, I bet she had a really fun day! You took some really cute photos of her! Those will probably end up in a scrapbook or some place special! 🙂
I live in Wisconsin, so we're the ice heart of cold. We got blasted last night and most of the snow is up to my hip, and I'm 5"6'! There are also some snow drifts that are taller than me. And today was our only snow day this year! We have to practically have to be in an apocalyptic snow storm for them to let us out of school, as a junior in high school, it's super nice to have a day off!
I too didn't think you had it so bad! haha Chicago just got 20 inches, 3rd highest in history. Will be posting about it tomorrow at adaywithlilmama.blogspot.com 🙂
LOL. I guess I shouldn't complain — you guys have it a lot worse than us! Although, we're not really equipped for this kind of weather, LOL.
The power grid was overloaded this morning and the state instituted rolling blackouts across Texas.
We just can't handle the cold I guess!