Snow Updates

For all of our friends and family who live far away, I thought I would post lots of pictures from the last week so you can see how our landscape has changed and how truly amazing the snow and ice have been this year. I know that lots of you have had crazy weather this winter too!! The kids have had a blast and I have been having fun taking pictures and staying inside where it is warm and cozy. :) Next year will be my year to buy snow gear. Little by little Kate is willing to venture outside, so my days of staying in and waiting to serve hot cocoa may be over. I will no longer have an excuse and can imagine myself giving in to the pleas of my children to come and play. :)

All of the above pictures were taken last Thursday when we got an amazing amount of snow (can't remember the exact numbers) on top of the already amazing amount of snow we received.

Wednesday of this week we managed to add some ice to top off that snow. The ice storm from the midwest hit us pretty hard. Thankfully we had no power outages and enjoyed having Dean work from home for a couple of days!

This morning I was on my way to our homeschool co-op when I got stuck in the driveway. The pictures don't really do it justice, but I was wedged in between rock hard snow and rock hard snow. The temps were in single digits last night and everything was still quite frozen bright and early this morning. Kevin, the wonderful man who plows our driveway, had warned me that they were having a difficult time finding places to put the snow and that they might have to bring up a loader at some point in time. Evidently, the difficulty has reached the point that I am going to have to be very, very careful as I leave my driveway each day. This afternoon, with the help of warmer temps, ice melt, a shovel and an ice chipper, I was able to get the car moving and parked in a better place. Why do these things always happen when Dean is traveling? Thankfully, he arrived home tonight and I was able to get it taken care of so he didn't have to manage it in the dark.

These pictures were taken today and I tried to capture how amazingly deep the snow is. Because the top layer is frozen, the kids are able to walk around most of the yard without sinking. Isaac's head is not typically at the same height as the bird feeders and Isabelle could step right over the baby swing if she wanted too. Truly amazing!!