White Out

(Yes, we know, it's actually February 1st, not March :)
 Although we can dream, right?!

Only the beginnings of the storm! It snowed like that non stop

all day long.

In the 2 winters we've had here in AR. we've never received so

much snow. Probably double what we would in one storm on average.

You can barely tell that there's a big two-story house

behind those tall trees to the left of the picture.

Which normally can be seen quite clearly (even when its been snowing

in the past).

We are fortunate to have not lost power at all.

This storm has shut the schools down for the entire week,

except for Monday.

The temps. at night have been dropping to around -3 degrees

with wind chill factors causing it to feel like -15 degrees.

The high for yesterday was around 14 deg.

There truly is something to our bodies acclimatizing to the elements.

I ventured out into the snow bundled up in snow pants, snow shoes,

& a thick jacket & was surprisingly not cold in 14 deg. weather.

Though, it did help that the sun was out & it was not windy at all.

Just my hands froze since I was taking pictures w/out gloves on.

That was one deep snow drift. It was quite neat

to see the wind whip the snow around like

you would on a sand dune.

Jace scooped up the snow off the back porch

 more than half way through the day to make it easier

to clear later on, & yet the snow still continued to dump

on us quite a bit more.

It piled up deep. From what we're used to ever getting anyway.

Snow is an amazing & beautiful thing to me since I did not grown up around it.

I agree with many when they say that its better to just go

& play in it for a few hours than to live in it.

For kids, snow = Fun!

For adults, snow = Work!

Can we say - Perfect place for snow angels!?

We're planning on taking the kiddos out to play in it

on Saturday.

The twins have never really "played" in the snow, just

touched it a few times.

We shall see how long it lasts.

I am grateful that here, the snow stays just long enough to play in it

a little & then melts away usually with in a few days to a week.

Oh, yeah!

 And this is what we were doing just 2 days before the

snow storm hit in lovely 67 deg. weather.

Warm fronts are the best!

Mr. Grant enjoying getting to toddle around &

explore the backyard with out a huge, puffy

coat on (As well as Merrill. Wondering off the opposite

direction I'm sure).

 Cole feeding the ducks at "I Street Park".

 Big boy Merrill going down the windy slide all by himself.

Grant was really "dig'n in" to that sand.

He Loved! it.