Well, as many of you may have heard in the last couple days, Springfield has been preparing for a major snow storm. Early computer models from three days ago indicated 16-20 inches but later predictions backed off of that total and told us to expect 6-12". However, as the storm drew nearer, they continued to push the heavy snowband further and further away from us and when we went to bed last night, they were predicting 1-3 inches. We were pretty sad because we got excited just to be let down once again. Furthermore, the snow was supposed to begin at 9pm but when I went to bed at 12:30am, there wasn't a single flake falling. Sometime during the night, however, some band of snow popped up out of nowhere and this is what we woke up too...

That's almost 7 1/2 inches! We've never seen anything like this down here! This morning was so reminiscent of snow days from my childhood because Kayla woke me up this morning to tell me that I could go back to sleep because school was cancelled. It was so awesome. Kayla didn't have to go to work either so we slept in till about 9am. Once we woke up, though, we were just too excited to stay inside so we bundled up and headed out into the snow. We decided it was time for us to make our first snowman as a married couple so we grabbed a bag of coal, found a couple large branches in our yard and thus a snowman was born...

We were pretty proud of it. It took quite a bit of work. Here is a picture of me posing with our creation...

Alright, so maybe it is a little smaller then we were originally planning but the snow was way too fluffy to get anything to stick together and this little guy actually took quite a while to make. Next, Kayla decided to make a snow angel but I thought it would be more fun if I buried her. You can tell she's pretty thrilled about it.

We finally got too cold and headed back inside. Mom, does this picture look familiar?

Now I think we're going to make hot chocolate and cookies. Snow days are the greatest. Here are a couple more pictures of the snow just because we thought it looked pretty cool.