Christmas Eve Rocks!

Wow, wow, wow - we had the best surprise EVER when we woke up on this Christmas Eve morning.  And what was it??  I'll let a picture do the talking:

 

Yes, that's right - it finally snowed!!  The weather people kept saying we probably wouldn't get any before Christmas, but it looks like they were wrong.  I peeked out the window right after I got up and couldn't believe my eyes!  Hodel and I were afraid it might melt quickly because it was already looking a little bit soft and tired early in the morning, so we threw off our pajamas and bundled up and ran outside to play in it, before we even ate our breakfast!

We wanted to build a snowman, but sadly the snow was not good packing snow.  You need thick, wet snow for that, and this was very dry snow and it wouldn't stick together.  So no snowmen or snow forts...but you can always make snow angels no matter what!

 

We were pretty soaked after that, so we had to go inside and eat our cinnamon rolls and change into dry clothes.  It's a good thing we went out and enjoyed the snow so early, though, because the sun came out and melted most of it by the afternoon.  So we read lots of Christmas books and watched Christmas specials.

Then we played another game of dreidel, and guess what - I finally, finally won!!  I couldn't believe it for a minute, then I shrieked!  Hodel cried "Nooooo!" very dramatically, but she wasn't really upset, she was just being silly. :-)

Now we have to go put some cookies in the oven to leave out for Santa tonight!