Snow, Sweets, and Santa

Yesterday we tied for a record hi with 80 degrees and then it snowed last night. As everyone here says, "Only in Texas." Either way, I was truly giddy. I couldn't sleep because I knew it was snowing. Every few minutes, I'd get back up and go watch it again. At one point around 11 pm I went out in the street in my pajamas just to watch it fall and feel it. I can't explain enough how much I love the stuff! The girls got to "play" in the snow today...there was mainly sleet left on a few things in the back yard but they were still intrigued. Ava cried when we came back in because she was fine freezing to death, but Elle and I agreed it was more fun to watch it from inside! It was in the 30's with 20-30 mph winds.

When did my 4 year old start looking so grown up???

In totally unrelated news, I made cinnamon rolls from scratch for dinner tonite. If you follow my blog, you know I love to take pictures of food I make and post it...so if you're on a diet LOOK AWAY! They were wonderful and the girls were SO excited that we were having this for dinner! I did try to balance it with eggs and cheese though. Yes, I know, mother of the year award for giving my kids such highly nutritious dinners.

Elle and Ava have really started playing well together. They called me in to see what Elle had done to Ava yesterday and I had to grab my camera and get a picture. They piled every stuffed animal Ava had, on top of her....they both thought it was so funny.

Lastly, I'm calling this the official Santa picture for 2008 unless we stumble upon Santa again before the 25th. Shawn took the girls to the library last week on the day Santa was going to be there. I would have gone too, but I was having my cavity refilled. Anyway, Shawn didn't bring a camera so a nice mommy there took my kids pic and sent it to us on email. I thought it was a pretty good picture. Shawn said that the only reason Ava got on his lap and is smiling is that he was handing out candy after you sat on his lap....that is wrong in so many ways!