57/101 -- Make a Snowman in NC

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

We don't get a lot of snow here. Coming from Colorado, it was culture shock to me. Every winter I get really sad and depressed because of the lack of actual WINTER in this state. I LOVE snow. I would prefer -10 degrees and piles of snow to mild winters any day. YES, I'm serious. Then why did I move? I ask myself that too...

BUT ANYWAY. Christmas came early this year with a beautiful snowfall on December 2nd. Snow that early is unheard of in our part of NC. I didn't make it out to build a snowman and I kicked myself. When would I ever have another chance? Who knows. I may not see that good amount of accumulation for another 5 years. Seriously. It just does not snow like that here.

But then Christmas actually came. And there was snow. ON CHRISTMAS DAY! We had a white Christmas in NC. We were out of town in the mountains and when I peeked out the window at 7am Christmas morning, it was snowing. Big, white, fluffy flakes. And it was coming down hard. Not blizzard hard, but a lot at a time. I cried. I admit it. Never in a million years did I ever dream I would see snow on Christmas morning living in the South. It was the best Christmas present I could get.

We enjoyed the beautiful fluff until about 3:30 and headed home---a typical 4 hour drive. When we left there was about 5" on the ground and still coming down hard. It took us 5 hours to get home battling bad roads, but we made it. It had just started snowing at our house when we got home about 9pm. We had planned to do our family Christmas the next day (the 26th) since we got home so late. When we woke up the next morning we had at least 4" of snow and it was still coming down. TWO white Christmases!

View from our back porch

After opening presents the husband headed out for snow boots for the kids. To all of our surprise, we found some!

Keira did not want to take hers off after trying them on.

Time to bundle up and head outside to play! AND BUILD MY NORTH CAROLINA SNOWMAN!

Keira was not too pleased with the layers at first, but she had fun.

She is so stinking cute in all of that pink!

Time for a snowman! Took some time to get the balls packed down enough, but they finally came together!

Not too shabby!

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