Snow?!

I woke up on Friday morning and looked out my window and the first thought that came to my mind was, "What? Wait, where am I living?" It was SNOWING!!! And not just a little bit, a lot a bit. When we moved here everyone told us, "Oh, yeah, you moved here during the miserable part of the summer. Just wait though, because winter is awesome and it's, like, 70 degrees everyday." Seriously? You lie!!!! Just kidding. It has been really nice here. It's just been this last week where it's been unseasonably cold.

Of course Nate's nose was glued to the window and he begged to go outside and play. Well of course we'll go play outside! But where? There really aren't any big open areas to run around in close by so I suited him up and we went down to our lap pool. Yep, the lap pool. It was the only open area we could find that wasn't ankle deep in gooey mud.

The snow was so wet. Everything was soaked. The snow immediately turned to slush when it hit the ground. That made for a lot of fun stomping and splashing.
Can you go outside in the snow and not try to catch it in your mouth? Nope, you can't. That's a prerequisite for playing out in the snow. Nate didn't find it very amusing because he couldn't get enough in at once so he walked over to the sun chairs and grabbed handfuls of slush off of them and would lick it like a Popsicle. I know, dirty and gross, but it's about having fun and I'm pretty sure he's eaten grosser things!
It snowed for a good half of the day. We even got accumulation on the roof.
We had fun even though we didn't last long. It was so wet and cold. If it hadn't been so wet we would've played longer but once you got wet you froze. We hear this is only the 4th time in 19 years that it's snowed here in Houston so we tried to make the most of it since it may not happen again during our stay here.