Covered in Snow

Well, I thought I'd post some pictures to document our big snow storm of the year.  It was quite an adventure!  The governor actually passed an executive order making it illegal to drive during the blizzard.  Crazy. I guess the technically winds weren't sustained for long enough for it to actually count as a blizzard, but it was definitely blizzard-like conditions.  It was pretty cold and soooooo much wind.  I think we got about 2 feet.  It was hard to accurately measure with all of the drifting, but there was a lot of snow.  Most of it occurred overnight, so there was not much of an opportunity to shovel in shifts.  We were mighty grateful for our nice neighbor who came over with his snow-blower and helped dig us out.  It saved us hours of shoveling time! 

In the morning, the plow got stuck at the end of our driveway. Scott went out and helped dig him out.  They were there for a good long time!  Unfortunately, after getting stuck, the plow never came back!  But another neighbor has a quad with a plow front, and was able to widen the road for us a little. :)

Our back porch door.  You can see some of the drifting.  The crazy thing was even our downstairs back door (which is under the deck and usually gets no snow) had a foot of snow in front of it because of the drifting.

Alan wanted to go out first thing.  It was bitterly cold though and he didn't last too long.  James had no desire to come out at all.  Which was good because there would have been no where he could have walked.

Cars

Picnic table. :)

Digging out the cars.

 Even though this storm technically dumped more snow than the storm in 2011 that came right after we moved in, it hasn't seemed as bad in the aftermath.  There is just more room here to put the snow than we had in our old house.  And it has been pretty warm most of the time since the storm so we have had a lot of melting.

The boys have had tons of fun playing in the snow on the warmer days since.

James mainly loves stomping in the mud puddles in our little turn around area.

And Alan loves climbing on the plow piles. :)