The First Snow!

It is now March with beautiful, sunny, 50 degree weather, so I figured it was the perfect time to post some pictures from our first snow this winter season.  Ha Ha!  Not only was this the first snow of the season, but it was also Tybee’s first time to really play in snow.  She loved it!!  She even loved having me take her picture (which never happens).  She kept telling me to take my camera out and then she would pose for me.  I even had fun and I HATE dealing with the cold, wet snow.

Spring…where are you?!

 

We haven’t had snow in quite a while and it has even been in the 50’s for a bit, so I kept feeling like spring was just around the corner.  This has been a wonderful thought…until I woke up this morning and found this…

There’s nothing like scraping snow off your car to put you in the right mood for the day :/

Starting off the Season Right

Halloween and Thanksgiving came and went so quickly that it didn’t really even feel like they happened.  So we are really wanting to get into the Christmas spirit this year.  This afternoon we wanted to do it right by going to our very first German Christmas Market.  It was as much fun as I thought it would be, but super cold.  We’ve been home for almost two hours now and my toes are still frozen.  I’m a little worried about this winter and whether or not I will survive it.  As you can see from the pictures, it is already snowing and sticking.  It sure does make things beautiful though.

The Christmas Market was full of good smelling food, yummy hot chocolate, shops with all kinds of fun trinkets, music, lights and christmas decorations.  It definitely got me into the spirit and of course we didn’t come away empty handed.  In fact, there are chocolate covered strawberries on a stick downstairs that I’m dying to try, but I have to wait for James to get home.  This is taking a lot of restraint and self-control on my part!

Ethan looks so happy and full of energy right here, ready to go explore the market.  It didn’t last though, he was dragging by the end and fell asleep on the way home.  I think that means he had a good time.

 

That IS Ethan in the picture, if you can find him.  It was so pretty with all of the Christmas lights.  The picture doesn’t do it justice.

Rudesheim was a great place to go for our first market, but it is not going to be our last.  We are going to try to go to another one this weekend, maybe in Weisbaden.  I can’t wait to see what we will find there.  I have the christmas shopping bug in me now.