This was the beautiful sight to which we awoke Tuesday morning. Our front door faces due south and this is obviously looking east.
My children couldn't even get out the front door; they had to go out the back door. By the way, this is an answer to prayer. Let me give you the background.
Where we live we usually get a few inches of snow, a couple of times during the winter. It generally goes away within 1 or 2 days. Also, most snow that does come to our area, stops or fizzles out by the time it gets down to us, so the northern part of Tulsa gets a good bit of snow and we, south of Tulsa, Oklahoma, get next to nothing. I spent the first 14 years of my life in Ohio and do love the snow, for a few days anyway.
We live way out in the country at the top of a very big hill. See!
We love to go sledding down this hill and the last snow we had did not give us enough snow to do so. Consequently when I saw on the news that Tulsa and south were to get snow Monday night, I prayed. Tulsa was to get 1-4" and further south and east of where I live was to get 4-10". I simply asked God to move that line of snow over top of us, so that we'd get about 6-8", but that we wanted enough to go sledding. He is so Awesome!!! (I'm sure it helped that I didn't have to fight my dear friend Joyce's prayers, this time. For 8-9 years we lived next door to each other and we would pray FOR snow and she would pray for it NOT to snow. LOL. At least this time we were in agreement. LOL!!!)
My dd was up and dressed to go out in the snow by 6:30am. I let them go out after the sun came up, after 7. I proceeded to make some banana muffins for my dear family. When they were finished, I took the mini muffins outside and they ate their breakfast on the hilltop.
Of course Beau, our Sheltie, thinks he is getting one too. LOL Beau loves the snow. He chases the sledders down the hill and back up too. He was designed for working out in cold temps, by our wonderful Creator; it is a shame he is stuck here in hot OK. But we love him!!!
Here, he noticed that one of his flock were heading down the hill, so off he went, right by her side. Our hill has two natural 'exits'. I usually take the first 'exit' so that I don't have to walk ALL THE WAY back up this excruciatingly hard to climb, hill. (I'll put that picture further down.) Here my middle son is ready to start down, since my daughter and Beau have made it to the second 'exit'. Beau realized that a second sledder is trying to escape, so he is back to work, chasing this sledder now. (I zoomed way in on this pic so you could see it.) Uh Oh! Another sledder is off! Beau will not be left behind. LOL!
Will a fourth sledder sneek by Beau? No. But wait! Somehow I got turned around, something tells me this is not the safest way to go down this hill. LOL Thankfully, I exit here pretty quick and only have about 1/3 to 1/2 of this hill to climb.
Here's a picture of one of our cedar trees, to give you an idea of how much snow we really got. I did shake the snow off, after I took the pic. I wouldn't want my beautiful cedar to break! After all, it did survive the ice storm last December!
And here is a picture of our pond. I didn't take one of the whole pond all at once, but you can see a bit of it through here.
Oh! I almost forgot! We saw some deer tracks in the snow, on the way back to the pond. And this is where we followed them to . . . Across the pond on the left side, we found this . . . where the deer must have laid during the night.
Well, I hope you enjoyed my little tour through our morning in the snow. As it turned out, we were outside for a couple of hours. Then my dear husband and oldest son, went on into town to work, at which point, the other two children and I did an abbreviated school schedule. It was a great day. I guess you could say, we had an extensive PE program that day.
(Me and my dd, Tiffany on an easy to climb tree limb on vacation in VA in 2007.) These are my ramblings on homeschooling and whatever else comes to mind.
Counting Down
The Holidays are over and I'm not quite ready to start a new count down yet. Maybe I should start a counting up the number of days I've stayed on my "diet".
My children couldn't even get out the front door; they had to go out the back door. By the way, this is an answer to prayer. Let me give you the background.
We love to go sledding down this hill and the last snow we had did not give us enough snow to do so. Consequently when I saw on the news that Tulsa and south were to get snow Monday night, I prayed. Tulsa was to get 1-4" and further south and east of where I live was to get 4-10". I simply asked God to move that line of snow over top of us, so that we'd get about 6-8", but that we wanted enough to go sledding. He is so Awesome!!! (I'm sure it helped that I didn't have to fight my dear friend Joyce's prayers, this time. 
I let them go out after the sun came up, after 7. I proceeded to make some banana muffins for my dear family. When they were finished, I took the mini muffins outside and they ate their breakfast on the hilltop.
Beau loves the snow. He chases the sledders down the hill and back up too. He was designed for working out in cold temps, by our wonderful Creator; it is a shame he is stuck here in hot OK. But we love him!!!
Our hill has two natural 'exits'. I usually take the first 'exit' so that I don't have to walk ALL THE WAY back up this excruciatingly hard to climb, hill. (I'll put that picture further down.) Here my middle son is ready to start down, since my daughter and Beau have made it to the second 'exit'. 
Beau realized that a second sledder is trying to escape, so he is back to work, chasing this sledder now. (I zoomed way in on this pic so you could see it.) 
Uh Oh! Another sledder is off! Beau will not be left behind. LOL!
No. But wait! Somehow I got turned around, something tells me this is not the safest way to go down this hill. LOL Thankfully, I exit here pretty quick and only have about 1/3 to 1/2 of this hill to climb.
I did shake the snow off, after I took the pic. I wouldn't want my beautiful cedar to break! After all, it did survive the ice storm last December!
And this is where we followed them to . . .
Across the pond on the left side, we found this . . .
where the deer must have laid during the night.