of snow, more snow, frozen ponds, and cold

This moring I woke up upon beautiful snow all over the hill country. I took about a million photos, too.

Here's Kirsten making a snowman! Yes, now the snow is melting, but my brother and I are going to have a snowball fight soon. ;-)

We went up to the huge, long, steep hill near our house with our skim board (skim board = a wooden boogie board, about the size of a doll surf board only wider, that you use at the beach) and then we had at least an hours' worth of fun total sledding down the hill. My dad was driving to his work this morning just before daylight when, on the snowed-over, icy roads, he all of a sudden slid, skidded, and nearly busted our truck into a telephone pole! His truck also did a one hundred and eighty degree turn-around, which obviously means spinning completely all the way around. It was scary, but he made it, thankfully.

Then he, my brother and I went to the pond near out house. It's fed by a natural spring underneath, but it froze - it was a skating pond! My brother whooped and screamed that he was going to go skating or something like that, and he started to get on the ice, but my dad said that our Goldren Retriever, Sunny, should test it first. Sunny ran across the pond and the ice immediately cracked! Poor Sunny was frozen, but he dried off mostly in just an hour or so, and then he ran out with my brother and I as we took in all the snowy fun. We got about 1 1/2 - 2".

I'm so excited that it snowed here!! It was such a miracle. The next time it will snow is probably when I am about thirty, LOL!

I've had such a fun day, more than words can describe, and I will enjoy it even more now because I've discovered really just how amazing God is when He gives us even small blessings such as snow! You northerners, please don't take your snow for granted. It hardly ever snows where I live, in the Texas Hill Country. ;-)

That's all for now!

I'll see you later,

-Hannah-