Baby, All I want for Christmas is You..

...and snow. Mostly snow. I was trying not to keep my hopes up for getting snow before the new year; B & D both told me it was pretty rare for them to get snow before mid-January. Being the tragic optimist that I am, I refused to give up hope. I checked the weather daily and became more and more discouraged as the chances of snow dwindled down to 10%.

So imagine my surprise when I woke up to J& L screaming right outside my window. I went upstairs to investigate and was greeted with the first snow of the winter!!! I was so excited that I literally ran back down to my room to bundle up and go outside and play! J and I had a snowball fight and made snow angels. It was so unbelievably cool!

Picture time:

our house!

ah! i was just so excited, 

i took pictures of ridiculous things just because they were covered in snow.

why have i never noticed this awesome bench?!

statues = boring

snow on statues = awesome

how does it stay up there?! 

seriously, i want to know.

sometimes i wish i lived in a bigger city, 

but i love how german out town looks.

snow, snow, snow!

yay!

snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes

the front yard

the garden

yes. i really was this excited.

snow :D

What a great day it has been (and it's only 4:00 p.m.)!! With less than a week until Christmas, I've been a little bummed that I can't spend it with my family but this snow definitely perked my mood right up. Plus, now I will get to spend a German Christmas with my German family. It's crazy to think how different my life is now from my life six months ago. Crazy awesome, that is.