This Just In...

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It Snowed in Georgia!!
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and there has been much joy and rejoicing...

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Notice, Adam is wearing gardening gloves and Evan is wearing my gloves. When we lived in Virginia we had plenty of snow gloves, but not anymore.


At least Brian was able to wear hand-me-down snow gloves from our days in Virginia. Here he is working on a snowman.

Here we see Evan trying to make a sled out of the recycling bin. We didn't bring any sleds with us when we moved to Georgia because we thought we would never need them. I told him the recycling bin would never work because it has holes in the bottom...I was also quick to point out that it would probably have worked a little better if he had actually taken the items to be recycled out of the bin prior to trying to sled in it.


As the afternoon wore on and more and more snow kept falling the boys started to make a snow fort to, "Ambush Dad!!" when he got home from work.


The whole backyard was soon covered.


I was trying to take an, "artsy" picture of this tree because it looked so beautiful, but it really didn't work.


The front yard. By the time the snow quit falling I would say we got three inches.

Brian completed his snowman with the help of Evan and Adam. I even think Mike helped...after he was ambushed with snowballs, of course.

...and this is how Little John spent his time during our first snow storm in Georgia.


(He was actually sleeping with this teething bear in his mouth, but the time I got back with the camera he had spit it out)

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I am afraid to drive in Georgia right now. No, not because I have forgotten how to drive in snow in the four years since we moved from Virginia, but because the people in this town evidently. cannot. drive. I feel that I am at liberty to make this judgment because this past Tuesday night marked the THIRD CAR ACCIDENT that was not our fault that Mike or I have been involved in either on the way to, or returning from Young Men/Young Women/Boy Scouts/Cub Scouts. Tuesday night's accident occurred on my way to drop Evan and Adam off at their activities. It was raining and slick and as I turned onto a road and was still in the merge lane the car behind me was following too closely. I slowed down and waited to merge because the light for the oncoming traffic was still green and the traffic was moving quickly on the wet roads and there was a glare that made it difficult to see. The car behind me tried to get around me on my left and scraped the back panel and bumper on the driver's side.

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Again.

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You may remember this little experience. Yeah, same exact driver's side rear quarter panel and bumper took a hit.

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I am thinking of painting a large, bright, target on my driver's side back bumper and panel...you know, just to be more efficient.

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I guess if I didn't want Evan to take the new electric skillet that Mike got me for Christmas to the combined Young Men/Young Women activity for a quesadilla making contest...I could have just said so...instead of somehow managing to get in yet another car accident.

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All joking aside though, nobody was hurt and if being inconvenienced the night of the accident and during the upcoming repairs is all I have to face, well...then, I lead a pretty blessed existence.

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But nobody is allowed to sit in that back seat on the driver's side (like Adam was this past Tuesday night and Evan was during the accident in March'08) anymore, either.

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