Eric and Court: It SNOWED in Tennessee!!!

I know, I know... for you Iowan's, a little snow is no big deal, but you have to understand..this NEVER happens here! (Well, hardly ever!) The way our morning started, I would have never guessed it would end so well! Little Miss Eloise decided that she needed to be awake at 5:30 this morning, so we were eating breakfast at one of our favorite hole-in-the-wall breakfast joint when it opened at 6:30! We got home, did a little picking up around the house, sorted some clothes for Goodwill, played with the Weeze-meister, and what do you know... I look outside and it is snowing! At first, not too much, but after about 5 minutes, we had some hardcore snow coming from the sky and it was STICKING!!!! I would say by the time it was all said and done (about an hour) we had a good 2 inches on the ground. Pretty exciting! So exciting that while it was snowing, Eloise stood at the back door with it open saying over and over again, ITS SNOWING!!! It's so pretty!! :) Of course, we do not turn down a chance to play in the snow, so we bundled up Eloise and headed outside. Eric brushed, yes brushed, the snow off the driveway and sidewalk while Weeze, Izzy, and I played in the fluffy white stuff. I learned a few things about my daughter today...
1. She remembers how to make a snow angel (taught her that over Christmas break)
2. She ~~likes~~ loves to EAT snow (we had a little lesson about not picking up and eating the yellow snow, or any snow that has any bit of color!)
3. She could spend all day in the snow, her snow pants and snow boots.
Below are a few pictures from our morning in the snow :)

Ready to go outside!

Look Mom, I can make a snow angel!

Yum...Its tasty!

I will call him Squishy and he will be mine!

In other news (since I haven't posted since October...) we have made two trips to Iowa (Thanksgiving and Christmas), I have decided to try to become National Board Certified (this could be a bad idea), Eric has gotten a little promotion (and a new office!) at work, and Eloise is continuing to LOVE her class at school.

For Thanksgiving, Eric and Izzy drove up on Tuesday and Weeze and I flew after school on Tuesday. We did this last year, but Weeze was little enough that she doesn't remember this adventure at all, but THIS year was another story! First of all, you have to know that she is fascinated with airplanes and helicopters (really anything that flies in the air), so she was very excited that she was going to get to fly! She was great, seriously, GREAT on our trek. Especially considering during our layover in Atlanta, our flight to the Quad Cities was cancelled...yes, CANCELLED! I panicked at first, but we got it worked out. We got the last two seats on a flight to Peoria which worked out wonderfully because Eric and Izzy had not yet passed Peoria, so they were able to pick us up on the way home! Phew!! At Christmas, we drove home and it was a doozy drive! Weeze got the stomach bug on Friday night before we were to leave on Saturday, so we waited until Sunday. Well, she hurled...all.over. about 3 hours into our drive...YUCK! Needless to say, Ruby (my car) got a good shampoo and overall cleaning once we got to Iowa. It was a stressful drive, but all was well, and the flight home at Thanksgiving was memorable enough that the bad drive was easily forgotten!