Sparkle.

We woke up this morning to a sparkling surprise!  Snow!  The first snow, like the last snow of the year always strikes me as beautiful...it's clean (covering up ugly brown fall/spring) and you don't have to shovel.

When I woke Axel up to show him the surprise, the first thing out of his mouth was, "This is Ollie's FIRST snow!"

Wow, I can't believe I was thinking about shoveling when we had someone in our house who was about to have a "first ever."  With little wardrobe thought, we were out of the house in 5 minutes flat.

Eating a banana and a fiber bar on the way to school Axel asked, "Can we pull over and let the snow come in our windows?"

That's just what we did.  I can't think of a single reason why being on time to school is more important than someones first snow of their whole life!  (Please excuse the low-light early morning photos.)

Minnesota Christened by snow.  This made me laugh so hard that yesterdays mascara started to run.  What made him want to put it on his head?