Snowmaggedon 2012

We survived!  Thankful to be online again, I had to pop on and share some of the pics I was able to shoot during the past few days of what the news has deemed “Snowmaggedon 2012”. Really the snow isn’t what did us in. It was the freezing rain. That stuff is crazy. We have nothing short of 50 trees down in the back yard. It looks like the forest was clear cut. The trees just couldn’t handle the weight of all the snow and ice and if they weren’t falling over completely, the tops were just snapping off!  We stood outside our back porch and just listened to what sounded like shotguns going off but what was really trees falling every couple of minutes. 

We spent the majority of our 3 days without power hanging out on the “Edwards compound” (Thanks Alice and Cory!!).   The girls played lots of cards and spent time doing some menu planning while the cousins had fun playing all day.  (I did feel slightly guilty for enjoying myself so much while Aaron was working six 12-hour shifts in a row.)  Yesterday, Alice and I took a short walk and were able to capture some of what kind of impact this freezing rain had. Here are some of my favorites…

 

 

 

Snow day

Well, we finally got the snow the boys have been dreaming of.  Of course this meant that Daddy had to go to work, so as usual, the boys and I bundled up for some fun in the snow. It should be noted that the boys are finally getting to the age where the “bundling up” process is not nearly as torcherous as years past.  They have also toughened up a bit and can now handle a bit of snow down the shirt or partially wet gloves. This is refreshing to say the least. It does get easier!

The boys played some snowball baseball in the front yard. 

He’s so tough…





And here is the yard just after the last major flurry of the day.  There was a beautiful sunset behind the trees but I wasn’t willing to get bundled back up to get a better shot than this!