First snow of the season!

When I was driving back home last night, it was pouring down rain and thundering and lightning. When I woke up this morning, there was about 4 inches of snow on the ground and the wind was howling outside! Christopher, who has been hoping like crazy that we would get more snow here than last year, was thrilled to see the white stuff this morning. After trekking over to Pawz at Play to drop off Kasey (and holding onto the steering wheel for dear life; it was so icy!) we spent the morning over at the Groden's house playing in the snow with Lahna and Liam and one of their neighbors. Chris was very happy to play with the "big kids." It was not until later that we got to spend some time in our first snowfall in our new backyard. Here is evidence of the fun that was had...

And of course, one must try to taste the snow to be sure it is real...