Snow!

This afternoon we had some friends over for the afternoon and dinner, but this morning, despite some necessary preparation, we had some time to hang out together. Some of us were a bit tired, due to some others of us having a bit of a rough night and early morning...

This afternoon it started snowing. The girls were very excited, and I took the opportunity to take some pictures with snow in the background.

When I brought Naomi down after her nap and it was snowing, I said, "Look, Mimi, it's snowing!" She looked outside and said, "BUBBLES!" It was very cute, and really the highest compliment she could give to it, since she absolutely loves bubbles. She persisted in calling the falling snow "bubbles" for the rest of the day.

Hannah was beside herself watching the snow. "A snowstorm! I can barely see anything because of all the snow!" [Probably brought on by the Little House descriptions of blizzards, since it wasn't remotely snowing that hard!] "Can I touch it? What happens if I go out and sit in it with my snow pants on?"

And as you can see, it wasn't a paltry little fall, either. The footprints are from Michael going out to move our deck bird feeder. It was getting a bit weighed down by the snow. We've got probably 3-4 inches on the deck. It's still lightly coming down, too.
You can see the newspaper Michael put over Hannah's cilantro on the end planting box there. Yes, cilantro is growing in our planting boxes at this time of year. It may not survive the snow, but not because we neglected to cover it up!