Snow Princess

Well, today is Snow Day #4!  I can't believe I only worked one day this week, but I didn't have to use any vacation days!  This has to be a first for my work to be closed for so long.  We woke up this morning to a beautiful blanket of snow on the ground.  The afternoon weather report said that DFW got anywhere from 2"-7" of snow depending on where you are in the metroplex.  I measured about five different places in our yard.  They all measured 4 inches of snow!  That's not nearly as much as we received last February when we got a foot of snow, but it's definitely plenty of snow to play in.  I found Mia's pail and shovels to play with outside.  They work for snow just was well as they do for sand!  Mia loved playing in the snow.  I even helped her make a snow angel!  I kid you not, two people walked down the street on snow skis!  When we were both thoroughly covered in snow, we filled a bowl with snow and brought it inside to make snow ice cream.  I had never attempted that before, so I googled it.  I found a recipe that called for 4-5 cups of snow (I used about 6), 1/2 teaspoon vanilla, 1 cup milk, and 1/2 cup sugar.  It was really good!  I gave Mia a bowl of it, and she loved it!  She gobbled it up, then said, "More snow ice keem, Mommy! More! More!"  It was a hit!

Inspecting her mittens (or "mimmits" as she calls them) to make sure she's ready to go outside.

 Fun in the snow!!

 Hard to see but this is Mia's snow angel!

 Eating yummy snow ice cream