Christmas Vacation

We hadn't been to see my parents at Christmas for 7 years, and thought we were due. Our hope (Traci and I) was that on the trip we would see some snow. Being from southern CA, the only snow we can see is on the mountains around the LA area, which we can only see on good days (i.e. non-smog days). There was no snow all the way to KS and back, except for a small patch of dirty snow scraped off of the to the side of the road in Williams, AZ. So here we are, unloading the kids from the Trailblazer, in the cold, with locals driving past us wondering what we're doing, trying to get them all in front the only bit of snow we could find during the whole week, just so we could have a picture with snow. Are we a little desperate for a white Christmas, or what?