Today, the sun is shining...

Well, it snowed Thursday night and into Friday morning here in Central Texas.  I got up early Friday morning to see how much snow we had actually gotten.  It wasn't much (about an inch to an inch and a half), but it was enough to close the area schools.  For Madi, the cancellation of school Friday also meant the cancellation of her choir's Valentine's dance later that evening.  She was a little bummed about the dance being cancelled but, since she has two other dances scheduled over the next week, she was okay with the cancellation.  She's attending a friends Birthday party/dinner/dance later tonight and next Friday is the Middle School Valentine's dance.  So, she's gonna have plenty of time to get her groove on! :)

The day before it snowed, I was talking to my best friend, Eric, on the phone.  We were talking about the weather and the birds I've been photographing in our front yard recently.  Eric was commenting on how beautiful it would be to see the Cardinal in the snow and I agreed.  So, when I got up on Friday morning, the first thing I did was look out the window to see if the Cardinal was there, in the snow.  He was! As soon as I opened the blinds, I saw him on the bird feeder...

 ~ Eric was right.  Beautiful!

Madi and I were lazy, we didn't really care (not at first anyway) to go outside and check out the snow.  We kind of admired it from inside the house; which is what I prefer - I live in Texas for a reason you know.

Madi took advantage of her free morning. 

~She didn't even bother with brushing her hair.

~She's trying to hide her face

~This is suppose to be her giving me a mean look.  HA!

Bella dislikes snow and cold weather ~ sort of like her Momma. 


She was biting on her "dolly" just before I took this picture.  I told her to "be nice to dolly" and so she started licking it instead.

Momma Cass ~ on the prowl.

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Tex ~ super annoyed that I'm taking another picture of him.Just before noon I decided to go outside and get a few quick pictures of the snow before it started to melt.  

~Just outside our front door.  See, not a lot of snow.

One of the bird feeders



~Snow covering a flower bed and our little squirrel rain gauge.

~Our Oregano.  Not sure if it's going to make it.

My nephew, Jason and Madi's friend, Erin came by later in the morning to play in the snow with Madi; so that got her out of the house for a little while. 

While Madi, the pets and I enjoyed our snow day, poor Jack was having to drive home from Dallas after a very stressful attempt at flying home the day before. He had gone on travel to Arkansas on Wednesday morning and was suppose to be home Thursday night. However, due to ice and snowy conditions on Thursday, he couldn't get out of Dallas (which is a long story, but he didn't find out that he wasn't getting out until after 1am Friday morning) so he had to spent the night.  The next morning (Friday) after learning that his 10:40 am flight was canceled (along with all the other flights that morning), he and his co-worker/friend rented a car and pushed their luck on the roads.   His Mom and I were worried to death, but thankfully, he made it home safely yesterday afternoon. 

Today, the sun is shining, temperatures are in the 50's and the snow has just about completely melted away. We're thankful for all these things but especially thankful to be back together, safe and enjoying this beautiful Saturday!