Snow?

Californians have been quite anxious this past week looking toward Saturday (yesterday) when we would actually have snowfall. All of us with fancy droid phones thought it was pretty neat to see the snowflakes falling across the screen adding to our anticipation. Well yesterday came and it was COLD. But it was also beautiful. Where there weren't clouds there was crystal blue sky. At about 9 a.m. we could see a very dark cloud coming our way. My dad called and said it was hailing at his house and sure enough it started hailing while on the phone together. Sara and Zac ran out to feel the ice that we so rarely get, Claire was content watching from the window, and I battled to keep Luke in my arms. It was cool. Not snow, but still cool!

Unfortunately for Sara, it snowed in Burbank where she lives. She got off the phone with her mom and was in tears. Apparently it snowed enough that it stayed on the ground and dusted everything white. And Sara missed it. Damn. Not what you want to happen when she is already not visiting regularly and our weekend happened to be pretty dull.

Dull except for Claire's party finally happening!! Here is a quick recap of the fun illustrated in pictures.



Here I am. Solo parenting since Eric was in Washington D.C. for work. Claire is wearing the present I bought her not really as a bribe but something to sweeten the fact that a gymnastics party was NOT the original plan.



The kids got to hula hoop, jump rope, jump on the trampoline, do obstacle courses, a pinata and more.



This is how Zac and Sara looked the entire weekend. They were a little too cool for the five year old gymnastics, but they were still helpful.



Here is the amazing Barbie cake that Oma made! Wow!



Here is Claire with the Barbie after all of the cake was eaten off around her. Thanks to the help from my wonderful family, we pulled it off!

Where was Luke? I'm sure my mom will blog about that soon. :)