Our little family: Bring on Global Warming!!

Evan experienced his first blizzard this weekend! The snow started falling Friday evening and lasted almost 24 hours. We lost our power first thing Saturday morning, around 6 am. :o( As cold as it was outside, our house started to lose its heat rather quickly. Thank goodness we had this little propane heater that we set up in Evan's room to run in small bouts to keep us warm. We kept Ev in a fleece slepper, an extra pair of fleece pants, and this fleece jacket most of the day, so he was quite warm, but Josh and I got a little chilly when we were evicted from his room during nap times. Nevertheless, we survived!! :o)

Josh and Ev getting toasty by the heater.

Since his room was the only warm room in the house, we threw all of his toys in here to try to stay busy.

Josh and I played some Lord of Rings Monopoly by candlelight during his second nap. I promise the room was not this light while we were playing, so we must have a pretty nice flash on this camera... :o)

The electricity came back on around 7:00 pm, long enough so that we could reset our water supplies. When it went back out just before 9 pm, we raised our white flag and went to sleep. This morning, we had power again and Josh went outside to access the damage.

Yep -- that's a lot of snow! And no, those tire tracks are not ours... our caring neighbor drove his tractor up to our house yesterday to check on us.

We have no front steps or access to the front door...

Whew...

The snow measured about 20 inches in the driveway. There were drifts on the back deck that I'm sure are up to my waist, if not higher!

This is our road, which is basically a sheet of ice. We are pretty certain the only reason it was plowed yesterday was because the two plows that passed by were each followed by an ambulance.