Our Blizzard

Well, I'm sure most of you have heard but on Tuesday of this week, we experienced a bit of a blizzard! Although I am very much ready for spring, the blizzard proved to be an unexpected gift from God!! Our schedules have all been pretty crazy/busy and we just haven't had a lot of time together as a family...so the Lord provided a way for us to have just that! Although Brian went in to work for a couple of hours, he was home by 1pm and then we had the rest of the day together in our jammies!! We read together, played Uno together and just hung out. It was great!! Here is a picture of the blizzard happening outside:

Please note that this isn't as bad as it was at times - you couldn't even see the trees at times!!

Here's a picture of the blizzard in the house:

Cute story about this one. At one point I wasn't sure where Ellie was and she was being quiet (which usually means she's in her room getting her blankie and paci) so I was looking for her. And Ian said, "Aww, she's just looking outside the back door watching the snow." So, I went to see her and it turns out she wasn't just WATCHING the snow, she was playing with some that had made it inside our door!! She also enjoyed eating some of it. Pretty handy if you ask me, didn't have to get out in the cold to enjoy the snow!

Here's a picture of our front stoop the day after the storm. It took Brian quite a while to get it dug out and he had some help from a friend with a snow plow! Oh, and don't let the sun fool you - although it's BEAUTIFUL, we only got up to about -20 degrees!! You can see one of my elephants, but can you see the other?!