Snow!!

Last weekend we went to my parents house in the mountains of North Carolina, about 45 minutes from Boone. When we initially planned the trip, we assumed that the winter would be similar to the past two- lots of snow on the ground by now! I had been disappointed because Jefferson has had essentially no snow this winter and I was worried that my plans for Adelyn to see snow for the first time would be thwarted by mother nature. Thankfully that was not the case! We drove up with my parents on Thursday and Adelyn, despite her lack of sleep, was very excited to run around. We hiked and had a nice lunch in town on Friday. The snow came on Saturday. A lot of it (at least for us southerners :)). We bundled up and drove to Mt. Rogers, in Virginia, just to let Adelyn play in some deep snow (probably about 8in or so). With the wind, it was very cold, but she absolutely LOVED it! We had snowball fights and ran around and she was infatuated with brushing the snow off of every surface, watching it fall to the ground. After an hour or so, it got cold (the high, at 8am, in town, was 29 degrees and dropping- with the wind chill, it was probably closer to 0-10 degrees). The snow fell all day and we enjoyed playing around the house after we came home. Here are a few pictures.....

It is hard to believe Adelyn will be 2 on Sunday.... I suppose I will have more to post after her party :)

PS. It was amazing to see Adelyn's hair so straight in the un-humid mountain air! It was so long and she looked like a completely different person... almost.