Pictures of our minor snowstorm... yeah right, just a little snow

The tree that fell down at our neighbor's house

See the table, Pete cleared it prior to the snow storm.

Yeah right, Mommy, I can really travel through snow that is taller then me.

Now this morning...

See those cars, they are stuck at the entrance to our development!

Our street, we dug our cars out and then realized, we couldn't go anywhere if we wanted to!

This is the street right outside of our development, it isn't a major road but not a "side" street.  Typically it is quite busy.  I wonder if it will be plowed today.  If you look closely you can see how low the power lines are dipping.

Monkeytastic Unbelievable

That is right- we have already gotten more then a foot more snow and likely will get another 6 inches at least.  It really just doesn't seem like anything though because there was already so much snow out there to begin with.  Basically there are white outs all over the area and we are considered in a Blizzard.

I believe it as we were out not too long ago.  A neighbor's tree fell down and Pete and two other neighbors helped to move some of the limbs.  It was quite bad.

Pete is thinks he is going into work tomorrow.  I feel safe in saying, there will not be school tomorrow.  Skeptics are 100% agreeing on that.  Pictures maybe later!

Third Snowy Day round of pictures

These are some pictures of fun outside.  It was hard for me to take great pictures of Celia because I was also trying to, well watch a 2 1/2 year old!

Our neighbor, in what I thought was a cool action shot!  Celia had a blast sledding with her.

Sledding with Daddy

Yes, 28 inches starts to literally bury your car

"And I shall climb Mount ... no wait a minute, I am so bundled up that my knees barely move, I'm not even climbing stairs.  My Mom also thinks that this snow suit that is size 12 months fits me perfectly.  But I am not so sure, she isn't the one with the constant wedgy" (It does fit her though, I just add alot of layers underneath it, probably overkill).

So you see all this snow?  Imagine another foot on top.  That will be us evidently by Wednesday evening.  I will believe it when I see it.  That would be monkeytastic unbelievable.

Oh and a side note.  Today's commute was likely one of the more scary commutes to work.  I don't understand why it was so necessary that we fit a day of school in when the side roads were clearly in need of some work.   

Update with no pictures

I have superloaded the blog with photos and I still do have some more snowy photos but I am feeling too lazy to load them right now.  I am also bummed.  We have 28 inches outside- 28 mind you!  I don't have off tomorrow, I have a 2 hr delay.  What does it take to get a snow day???  7 years ago when we got less, about 20 inches, it took the area 3 days to clean up.  We had off from school 2 days (it would have been 3 but that Monday was president's day).  So the large amounts of snow mean nothing really this year.  I love it but I need my snowdays!  I suppose 2 hr delays are better then nothing.

In anycase, I have done a tremendous amount of cooking this weekend so the freezer has some new things in it. 

Friday I made muffins.
Saturday- 2 Potpies, the filling for a 3rd
Sunday- The crust for the 3rd potpie and baked that, 2 1/2 freezer containers of taco soup, a whole chicken, and crescent chicken is cooking for tomorrow's meal.  I am hoping to freeze half of that.  Oh and apple crisp for dessert.  I have the chicken carcass in the freezer, ready for a chicken soup.

I need to do this again.  Having the freezer filling up again is satisfying!!

Please send happy, happy, snowday thoughts for me on Wednesday.  We are expecting another storm Tuesday night.  Oh and please send prayers to my sister that my niece goes back to school sometime this week.  She had off all but one day last week and they just got more snow this weekend.  My niece doesn't have school tomorrow again!  My sister is going to go nuts.

Carrie

2nd Snow Report

Pete is infuriating me by saying that there is no way we will have a snow day on Monday.  This is likely the biggest snow storm in history here.  I think we should have a day!  I am optimistic, definately a 2 hr. delay.  What do you think FIL?  Don't you think I will have off, you are always reasonable!  I mean the major roads are one thing, the side streets are another.  We haven't ventured out yet, but I want to.  I just might after lunch or after Celia's nap.  So what have we been up to while this has been going?

Valentines Day is coming and Celia has lots of Valentines to make!!  She practiced her cutting (I turned the paper for her).  She primarily cut out the hearts that are shown on the kitchen table.  She liked the fancy edge scissors and did very well with it.  The hearts right below were done by placing them in a box with a painted ball.  She loved it.  We sang "rock, rock, rock the boat" to rock the box.  Pete tried to help her and used a different song.  She quickly informed him that was'nt the right song.

Oh we also used some stampers.  We used some big stampers from Mom Mom and some smaller stampers from Cousin Mikki.  I am not loving the stampers as much because she tends to set them down any where.  The washable stamp pads that we have are not as washable as I would like!

So I wonder what more we could do today!

Lots of the White and Silly Stuff!

So about an houur ago they just updated our snow totals to between 20 to 28 inches!  Maybe I will have a two hour delay on Monday.  The last storm when we got 18-20 inches I had a two hour delay.  In Richmond they would be shut down for a week.  As a teacher with snow days built into the school year, I am bitter about this.  Of course I have the disadvantage of living outside of my school's county and we do typically get more here.  Pete thinks I am crazy, I am when it comes to snow.  I get excited about it, I watch every single news broadcast (until I eventualy do get bored).

So what has Celia been doing so far on this snowy day? 

Pulling her toy drawer chest out of it's spot to make her "grocery" list.  Evidently no one has told her that they have banned 2 year olds on trikes for a long time.

Removing some drawers from her toy chest and cracking her self up

Did you notice the curls, still there- until after she lays down!! 

Oh and currently she is traveling up and down the stairs to bring Daddy various play food items.  I have been told he needs cereal bars, eggs, pizza, and coffee.

Here are some snow pictures

Check out the table in the deck photo!  That was taken about 2 hours ago and the snow is coming down heavily.  28 inches would be cool to see, I don't think we will get quite that much.  My prediction is around 22 inches.  Getting out of the house is going to be interesting, the snow is piled against our door.  I guess we should shovel some out of the way.  I will update with pictures later.

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