Snow before Thanksgiving!!! Can you believe it???!!!

We got a little over one inch of snow yesterday!!! What a surprise for this time of year! Jaden is having fun outside with Daddy today. Notice his pink mittens? I searched all over the house for mittens that would fit him - it was amazing how many right handed mittens we have in this house without their matching left hands! Ivy's old pair of pink ones fit him best so they'll have to do for now.

This snow really caught us off guard and unprepared! Thankfully I'd already bought Jaden a winter coat, snow pants and snow boots (just no mittens yet) and Ivy told me yesterday her old snow boots are too small. She's wearing Joel's old snow pants and Joel currently has no snow pants, but he has boots! We usually don't need these things this time of year.

However, we should have known..... Last night was the Hempfield Homeschoolers Christmas Choir Concert. For the past 7 years, I would say it snowed for 4 or 5 of the concerts! So this year, they decided to have the concert REALLY EARLY, before Thanksgiving and one of the reasons was that there would definitely be no worry about snow!!!

The roads were very, very slick last night and there were so many accidents all over the place. While driving over a bridge, our car slid on the ice and I braced for an impact. Scarey!!! One car in front of us did crash. The parking lot at the church of the concert was like a sheet of ice.

But the concert went on as planned and it was a really beautiful performance. Ivy sang in the 4th-6th grade choir and they did a really, really nice job. It was very beautiful! Ivy also had a speaking part and did a wonderful job. We were all able to be there to see her.

Yesterday was also Opening Day at the Sight and Sound Theatre's "Miracle of Christmas" Show! Joel performed in the opening show at 1:00 and also for the 4:00 show. I really, really, really wanted to go see it for the opening show at 1:00. Sometimes if there are extra seats, they let the child actor's family have complimentary seating. So Ivy, Jaden and I were all ready to go but we had to wait and make sure there would be seats for us. Half hour before the show, we were informed it had sold out and we couldn't watch it. SO SAD! So we had to go home. So over two thousand people got to see that performance and the mom didn't get to see it! Oh well.

Joel's high-light yesterday was that an NFL football player, the kicker for the Baltimore Ravens was there in the audience at the 4:00 performance. He arrived in a big black limo - Joel didn't get to see him but he saw the limo. All the football loving actors went out there to see it!

Today is a perfect Saturday. No rushing around going places, no frantic schedule.... Just a laid back day to sit by the fire and relax!!! The kids are all playing outside, Joel and Mark both have the day off and it's a nice peaceful day. Next week we'll be really busy getting ready for Thanksgiving. We'll have 13 people around our table and I can't wait!