Snow in Katy?!?!

We woke to a super cold morning last Friday. I got a text message from Kristen a bit before 7:30 telling me it was sleeting/snowing. Lovely. So I had to load up everyone in the van and drive down to the bus stop. The bus driver informed me that the kids would likely be sent home from school early. Apparently the weatherman was misinformed as to the timing of the winter storm. The snow actually started coming down hard around 11:30, not the 3:30/4:30 he mentioned during the news the night before. We had a lovely lunch at the Olive Garden with Aunt Kristen to celebrate her birthday and what a wonderful birthday present she received. Snow on her birthday for the first time since she moved to Texas from Iowa as a child. John enjoyed playing in the snow in the backyard while waiting for James to get off the bus at 2. James got to throw snowballs at Brian for a bit before we loaded up in the van and headed out to wrap the pipes at my parents' house (it was going to get down well below freezing that night). By the time we were ready to meet Will for dinner at 5, the snow had stopped falling and the sun was shining. We still had snow on our grass and roof Saturday morning and well into Saturday afternoon. James is sorely disappointed every morning when he wakes up and there's no snow. I have to keep telling him that we live in southern Texas and snow is very rare here.

Here are a couple of photos of the snow we got last Friday.