We'd landed in Charlotte three days before Christmas, and every radio announcer on the way home from the airport was talking about the coming snow. Christmas snow, for the first time in 50-some years. We hadn't even seen snow in Denver yet this season - where the first snowfall is usually in October - and it was hard to believe we might have to come to Charlotte to see some!
Nothing happened on Christmas Eve or Christmas morning, but around dinnertime on the 25th, we looked out the window and saw huge white flakes sailing through the darkness. Just in time. It didn't add up to much, but it made for a beautiful scene that night - the towering oaks that line the street draped in white, the lawns and even the streets coated and glittering, all of it reflecting the Christmas lights.
The next day, many of us went out to play. Adam and Isaac built this snowman. You can see that the snowman didn't leave much snow behind, and he ended up kind of dirty, but the fact that there was enough snow to build a snowman at all was a rare treat.
Below, Jonah watched Isaac running outside and asked to go out too.
When I took him out, he was surprised to discover, as Isaac once was, that snow is COLD.
Cork came out to play too.
Jonah was still overtired and didn't last too long.
But Isaac loved it!
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