winter is here!

so we had our first snow as official kansas natives yesterday. i called in 'texan' to work - which was a little unnecessary because it didn't snow until 6 pm, but hey, i needed the time off! :p


it WAS very icy and treacherous - and snowing in lawrence - so we decided that since there wasn't anything necessary i'd stay and work from home. (thank you remote desktop!) after some laundry and some newsletter articles, went to lunch with j.  that's one of the things i miss the most about kinston - we nearly always had lunch together.  it had been a long time since we had had an unsupervised meal together. it was nice.


came home and started decorating our christmas tree.  on saturday we loaded into the car and had ains pick out a christmas tree.  it was great (and cold) to see her running through the tree area in the nursery and spinning around and playing with trees. 

 j told her santa claus was hiding behind one and she ran away screaming! (had an unfortunate visit with santa at j's church's breakfast with santa.  suffice it to say that she is not a fan of jolly old st nick.)  we even got a fraser fir - something unexpected but a nice surprise on our first christmas outside of north carolina. 

j was very pouty all day because he really wanted snow.  i figured 'hey we live in KANSAS. it will snow soon enough!"  and finally after we had dinner and i gave ains a bath it started.  around 8:30 j suited up and we went outside and made my first official snowman. 


all in all, a good time.  it snowed, and was pretty snow, but only about 1 inch - an ideal amount, not enough for me to freak out about.  


so thank you kansas for letting me get acclimated before dumping 4 feet on me.