Snow in Seattle!

This was the view from our balcony Sunday morning.

We showed up to church, like normal, to a practically empty chapel. The bishopric decided to cancel church after Sacrament meeting, so we came home and played in the snow!

 Lainy had fun rolling a head for our snowman (over green grass!).

 Leah pretty much just ate snow.

 Brad and I sported our matching hats - a Christmas gift from my parents.

And we built this guy! I personally like the sticks poking out of his knees. The girls thought it was a nice touch.

 We named him Jack Frost.

Sadly, we woke up the next morning to find that Jack had been torn apart (likely by some rowdy fans headed to the UW vs WSU basketball game). Poor Jack. He had character!

This snow batch melted away by Monday afternoon but the weatherman promised more snow would be coming Tuesday night.

We were slightly amused when ALL of the school districts and universities canceled school in mere anticipation of a snow storm, before a single flake had fallen. We come from Idaho where it has to be snowing, and blowing, and below 0 in order to get out of school. I was hoping for snow partly so the superintendent wouldn't look ridiculous if it never came.

The snow did come. Quite a bit actually. And the whole of Seattle shut down for the rest of the week. Barely a car ventured onto the roads, though I did see quite a few people outside enjoying the snow on foot.

We had ourselves a nice vacation alternating between going sledding, eating yummy food, watching movies, and driving around in our nice 4-wheel-drive Subaru on the uncharacteristically empty Seattle streets.

Thank you for gracing us with a few inches, snow!

Thank you Lainy's principal and Brad's president for cancelling school for the whole week! Though it was quite unnecessary in my opinion, we sure enjoyed ourselves!

Thank you, darling girls, for these pictures of your rosy cheeks and red noses! It did my heart good to see you discover something I grew up enjoying.

 And thank you Bradley, for fashioning this sled out of a cardboard box and a garbage bag.

The snow is now completely gone. The local newscasters have dubbed the storm Snowpocolypse and are calling it the worst storm in 30 years. I'm glad we were here for the ride!