Snow in Mobile!?!?!?!

Was the impossible about to happen? Weather reports were calling for several hours worth of 100% chance snow--here...in Mobile... Now, to some of you...(most of you, no doubt) you may be asking: What is so special about a 100% chance of snow? Allow me to restate...Mobile...100% chance...for 1-3 inches of snow...on top of ice.... That just doesn't ever happen here. In fact, I don't think it's EVER happened here. I mean, really...two Christmases ago I was outside wearing short sleeves and flip flops, ya get me? It just does not happen...

Therefore, I confidently stated (while it was heavily sleeting) that I would not be surprised if we did not get the 100% chance of snow...So we sat..and we waited...and we watched...Waiting for it to start snowing. That night we went to sleep, the weather report assuring us there would be snow coating the ground tomorrow morning--100% chance. (Question...if it is 100% chance...why isn't it 100% fact? o_O) 

Very simply, I was not surprised the next morning to see that the 100% chance may as well have been a 0% chance, for there was no snow. Ice, yes, plenty of that; but alas, no white, fluffy stuff. Which meant no snowballs being pelted at Gabriel by his sister's avenging hand *longing look*...no snowmen...ect.

Nonetheless, our homeschooling was canceled that day for "snow day," in which there wasn't actually any snow, but I've never heard of it being canceled before for an "ice day" either so I'm not complaining. (Yes, all this beautiful white stuff was just ice..)

At any rate, Dad and Laurisa naturally didn't have to go to work for the day because the roads were too dangerous. Dad stepped outside and announced to us that we could go sledding! Or...skating. Gabriel was trying to skate down the driveway using shoes that had hardly any treads. 

Dad was the one who had the idea for that. When he had walked across the driveway the night before, he realized the ice was so slick that you really could skate on it in regular shoes, granted that there were no treads or very worn down ones!

The whiteness made everything look so pretty!

Esther and Gabriel found a few "ice fossils" of leaves. Anybody know how they form so perfectly?

We, of course, didn't have any sleds..nor am I sure they could even be found down here...So, we used pieces of card board boxes and a pizza pan too!

After a while of sledding down the driveway by ourselves, Dad invited Matthew, Daniella, and our cousins over to join us!

We all had alot of fun sledding!
Sledding down the driveway...Going back up...

Down the driveway.....back up...

Down the driveway....ba--yeah, you get the idea. ;)

Oh! How could I forget? Icicles...We. had. icicles. First time..Ever. Hanging from our roof....

And from the bushes....o.O

And from the cars...

It was nice to see ice in the woods..

After a while of sledding with our relatives, we all gathered in our living room to thaw by the soothing warmth of our wood burning stove and hot chocolate. :) 

Then we were back at it for a while!

I heard we would possibly get some more "snow" this week, buuut we'll see if that happens. :P