Saturday, December 19, 2009

Let It Snow!

Two weeks ago, I was complaining that East Tennessee got snow and Western North Carolina just got the cold air. Today, I am eating my words (literally almost thanks to homemade snow cream). We were a bit surprised Thursday by the news of a snow storm heading our direction. I have to be honest and admit that we didn't really believe it would be anything serious since news of snow is mostly a ploy to get ratings for local news stations. However, this time they were right. We woke up to about 2 inches of snow Friday morning. Thinking this was going to be all we got, we bundled up and headed outside for a snowball fight. By lunch, it was snowing again and did not stop until after Abby went to bed. By this morning, we had about 12-14 inches of the white stuff greeting us. We luckily only lost power for about 8 hours during the night when we were all snuggled in bed and warm. It kicked back on right after Abby woke us up around 7 this morning. So far, so good. Otherwise, we have enough food and entertainment to last until we can get out and about again. Here's some of the pictures from our snow excursions.

Round 1: Friday Morning snowball fight. A rare snow day for Buncombe Co. meant the neighbor kids were out to play. Abby was able to enjoy her first snowball fight.

Testing her favorite hangout.


She had to try a snow angel.


She's a natural. Without any coaching, she made
a great snowball and threw the first shot in the
snowball fight at our neighbor Will.


Daddy was not immune to her vicious attacks.
She has quite the arm. :)


"Check out my Abby ball, guys."


"Here's another one I made."


A couple of people are missing in this picture,
but it was pretty much
each one for him or herself.


Round 2: Saturday morning, with LOADS more snow

Abs and Daddy bundled up to check out the fresh snow
outside.


Our Abby-meter was not heavy enough
to sink to the bottom of the foot of snow,
but she had fun walking around in it anyway.


She's laying down waiting on Daddy
to clear off the steps.


"Can I come down yet, Daddy?"


She ended up in the snow a lot. It was so deep that she
could not walk very well. Here, she is in the middle of our
road. Never fear, we were not experiencing heavy traffic. ;)


Having a ball in the snow.


Steve giving Abby a quick snow angel
lesson.


She did pretty good.



Watching her silly daddy.


"Anyone up for a snowball fight?"

Our neighbor decided he wanted to take
a drive. You can sort of see how deep the snow is.



Here's our car without any drifts around it.


Mini-avalanche from the car landed on her head.


Meanwhile, Daddy cleared the stairs
a little more. Soon after this,
he discovered the missing bottom step.


After some snow melted down her shirt
and she lost her boot in the snow,
Abs was ready to "go inside"
for awhile.


We got many more pictures and it was hard to pick the ones to post. Needless to say, we had a blast and are in no danger as long as the power stays on. We are excited that Steve had already taken the day off well before the storm was mentioned and we were able to have everyone home and safe. We hope everyone is warm and enjoying the week before Christmas. See you soon!!


1 comment:

Tiff said...

LOL, the top snow angel picture - Mike says she doesn't look like a snow angel so much as she looks like Ralphie's little brother Randy when he falls down in the snow. Then he says, "Randy, just lay there like a slug."