Yesterday afternoon we met friends at the Ice Show at Gaylord Opryland.  It's the same theme as last year (they bought the rights to it for two years)  We had a wonderful time visiting with friends and enjoying the show.  Of course, the children love the ice slide (none of my ice slide pictures turned out though -- they were all blury)  I'm quite sure it was operator error as I'm still getting used to this camera. 

After the Ice Show we planned to go out to eat with our friends.  They asked if Bethany Grace could ride with them and we said "yes".  That was all great until the snow got heavy fairly quickly.  Our friends took a different route than we did (they needed to swing by their home) and they couldn't get back to where we were.  They tried but the traffic was at a stand-still.  So the decision was made for Bethany to spend the night with them.  They went to eat on their side of town and we ate on ours.   Once we arrived home the children wanted to play in the snow.  They had a great time playing.

They built a snowman:

And threw lots of snowballs..

I'm so glad we let them play outside last night.  The snow was nice and wet and perfect for snowballs and snowman building.  This morning, we still have snow but the moisture has evaporated (I guess) and you can't make very good snowballs with it.  It is supposed to warm up today so it will all be gone by the afternoon. 

We talked to Bethany a few times and she was having great fun with Marissa.  I will pick her up this afternoon. 

Amazing the difference a few days makes in the weather.  It was just Tuesday that Mark was playing out with no coat.