Winter Wonderland!

It has been another whirlwind of a week! Yesterday we had our annual office Open House and our Christmas party was last night. The weather didnt seem to cooperate very well. It has been raining for two straight days and yesterday morning there was a horrible wreck with one fatality, and a few others along the day on interstate 65 that had the interstate shut down for some time. There were a few people who were stuck in it for over 4 hours. Needless to say we had only about a third of the people we expected to show up for our Open House. I was watching the weather all day to make sure that all was clear last night. We had planned on leaving work, picking up Connor, driving to Lebanon to drop C off at my parents, head downtown for dinner, back to Lebanon and back home again. For those of you who dont live here, that is quite a trek. About an hour out of the way, one way. Let me just say that the weather men missed this one big time! We left work about 4 to get on the road and when I got to our subdivision so I could change clothes, the ground was getting covered. As we are driving to pick up Connor the roads were turning white. Then after we picked him up and got back on the road to head to Lebanon we hear that there are wrecks on the bypass so we head another way and traffic was slowing to 20 miles per hour so it wasnt looking good. I know that everyone makes fun of the way that we handle snow in the South, but it really was coming down. It was most people would call a "white out". You could hardly see right in front of you. We called one guy in our office to ask what he thought about it and he didnt even know it was snowing. This is how fast it all hit. By the time we got to the interstate we probably had about 2 or more inches of snow on the ground. We had to make a split decision and decide whether or not to chance being super late to the party because going to Mom and Dad's was going to take a while OR take him to the "adult only" Christmas party OR just go home. After talking to the boss and several other people we decide to just take him with us and make the best of it. I was afraid it was going to be a disaster because we werent prepared, I had one juice box, no snacks, no toys, etc. Connor ended up being the best behaved little boy and everyone was very impressed! I was so proud! We had a great time and despite the weather there were only two people from the office who didnt come. The funny thing was that Nashville didnt get ANY snow and when we were telling the people who lived north of town they almost didnt believe us when we told them. It was a little tricky getting home. SR 840 was icy, so I was a little worried. We made it fine but saw several people who werent so lucky. Everything was so beautiful! It was a very wet snow which stuck to the trees and made it very pretty! I tried taking many pics from the car of all of the trees and pretty landscape but they didnt turn out because the flash wouldnt go that far. I took some when we got home and you could tell that the kids had already been out as there were several snowmen. We let Connor enjoy it for a few minutes before going to bed. This morning we got up and headed straight out because I saw the sun peaking through and you know what that means. The clock was ticking... We had a great time playing with the neighbors. I think that Brads old snowsuit fit Connor much better this year! Almost perfect!! Enjoy the pictures from our day!

This is what it was doing when we left our house on our way to the party.

I thought the neighbors snowman was great, so I had to take a pic.Daddy measuring to see how much we got!Connor was very curious to see the white stuff.