Big Winter Storm=Big Winter Fun!

All week long the weather reports were calling for "the first big winter storm" to hit the area. Originally, the forecast called for 6-8 inches of snow, which they ultimately amended to 8-10. Little did we know we would be blasted with close to 2 feet of snow!!! It started snowing around noon...and didn't stop for 24hours! When it first started snowing, the snow flakes were HUGE...so pretty...but it was a very wet, heavy snow! Later it turned to a finer, lighter snow. At times, we couldn't even see our neighbor's house it was snowing so hard!


Here is a picture taken first thing in the morning...meanwhile, it kept snowing for another 5 hours!!!
A picture looking out the back door toward the neighbor's house...yes, that is snow up to the wheel wells of the car!!! I haven't seen this much snow in a loooooong time!
After Russ shoveled the sidewalk, we got Lexie bundled up so she could play in all the snow!!!



She didn't quite know what to think of it all. She wanted to "run" in it, but it was way too deep!
Al, our neighbor, wading through the white stuff!! He is just as tall as Russ...if this gives you any idea as to how much of it we had!!!
Russ trying to shovel some of the snow piles left from the plow. He decided to make an Ice Castle for Lexie!!!
Olivia and I enjoying the snow inside where it was W A R M!!!!

Lexie is enjoying her "ice castle"...
...she kept asking me to come in with her!!!
Time to get out...


Olivia wanted in on some of the fun too...so I bundled her up in what I later coined her "pink straight jacket". She was such a good sport about the whole thing!!! She loved being outside, but the snowsuit was a bit too small--making it hard for her to move much!
The guys needed an adult beverage...playing in this deep snow it hard work! Poor Ginger was buried in it!!!