Snow Much Snow

Well, you'll be astounded to know that after eight snow days this school year already, Mother Nature decided to make it nine (as of this posting)!  Sunday morning we got up to snow flurries.  My mom and dad were in town visiting, and they hurried home, passing over ten cars in the ditch on their way!  Within a few short hours, the snow was really coming down.  We ended up with around five inches by the time it was over, and Ryan had a very cancelled birthday party on his hands.

However, using his keen foresight, Ryan went early in the day to pick up the Slim Chickens order, and we still have enough Slims to feed an army in the event of a zombie apocalypse.  We did have the neighbors over for the Super Bowl, so all was not lost.  All just did not go quite as planned.

It warmed up to 40 degrees on Monday, which means we got a lot of melting.  But it also means that Alli was able to enjoy going out to play in the snow (I asked her to go play with me Sunday when it was coming down and 20 degrees, and she said "Can't you see it's cold out there?!?").  She went over to our neighbors' house for half of the day, and when she came home we decided to make a snowman.

She rolled the snowballs across the yard until they were big enough to stack.  Then we added eyes and a nose.  We worked on the mouth for a little while, but decided we could use a scarf and a hat instead.  Please meet Olaf.

I am sure there were quite a few Olafs built this weekend thanks to Disney's latest movie Frozen.  I highly recommend that one - thanks for jumping on the empowering females train, Disney!!  Alli decided that Olaf could use some arms, so off we went to an undeveloped lot in our subdivision to find some branches.

We found the perfect ones and added them to Olaf.  Alli decided he needed gloves too.

Isn't he great?  She checked outside for him several times later that night.  We're supposed to get more snow this week and weekend (insert ugly cry here).  Is it summer yet?  Not that it matters to Alli - she'll still be in school!!

May Snow Brings...?

We've been asking each other over and over the past few days - if April showers bring May flowers, what does May snow bring?  I don't have a good answer, other than cranky people and cancelled plans!  We've had temperatures in the 30s and 40s since Friday, and that morning we woke up to the first ever snowfall on record in Arkansas in May.

And you bet your bottom dollar I had Ryan out there covering shrubs and moving pots into the garage. It melted pretty quickly, but Saturday had a high of 45 as well.  Alli's friend Fletcher's birthday party went from an outdoor barbecue to an indoor swimming party at a local hotel.  Alli didn't seem to mind the change of plans one bit.

Afterwards, Ryan and Cash displayed the best thing to do on a cold, rainy Saturday evening.

According to the forecast, we should be back in the 60s tomorrow and not going this low again in the foreseeable future.  Thank goodness.  Arkansas weather needs to get it figured out.  70s at Christmas and 40s in May is unacceptable!!