With balmy spring-like temperatures behind them in Louisiana, New Orleanian sisters Audrey, Lucy, and Evelyn Burvant — ages 7, 9, and 11 — could not be happier to be spending the New Year holiday in frosty Boston.

“We love playing in the snow,” declared Lucy as she and her family stopped in Boylston Plaza outside the Prudential Center on Sunday to admire ice carvings for Boston’s annual First Night celebration.