Winter Update

It's STILL SNOWING! It has been crazy weather today. It has alternated between snow and sleet and freezing rain, making for a very interesting landscape outside. We have never seen weather like this before. The nice fluffy snow of yesterday is now a fluffy facade that is actually ice chunks. We woke up to this, this morning (I know it's dark). Our trees in our backyard have completely deflated. I know you can't tell well but these are tall trees and they have just bent under the pressure of the ice. Every branch is encapsulated with ice. And it continues to snow.

I guess we shouldn't have left that little folding chair out.

Here are our baby icicles that the girls love.

And when the power started to flicker not too long ago we decided to pull out all out flashlights and candles and such just in case. Well Dustin remembered that he had left one of the flashlights in the car. So he headed out to try and get it out. This is what the car looked like.

It is literally covered in like a half inch of ice, and then covered with snow on top of that.

He kept trying and trying to get the door open by chipping away at the ice. Finally he realized......it was locked! Just thought that was funny.

He decided that he would try and clean it off a little before it got any worse. And this is what it looked like after he chipped away a big chunk of ice.

A hole so big he could fit his hand in it!Luckily we have a gas fire place so if it is just the power that goes out we should hopefully be able to keep warm all snuggled up together in front of this.

I know it has been cold it seems everywhere we have loved ones. I hope everyone else is keeping warm as well!