Winter Was Here!

Icepocalypse!  Icemageddon!

Icepocalypse and Icemageddon were a few words floating around North Texas last week as we had a huge ice storm.  Our storm started last Thursday; it's now nine days later, and we still have a few patches of snow.  (Snow rarely stays around that long around here!)

The storm was starting on Thursday.  Thankfully, I had just been grocery shopping on Wednesday night; there were many reports saying our grocery stores were out of bread, milk, and eggs until earlier this week.  We spent Thursday evening huddled around our TV with hot chocolate while we watched the live "Sound of Music" on NBC.  (I know there are a lot of opinions about this version of "Sound of Music"--but it was a hit at our house.  We even let Isaac stay up until the very end.)

Hot chocolate, The Sound of Music, & jammies...also, notice Emma's necklaces?  One of her favorite new things to do is find my necklace tree and pull as many off as she can.  :)
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here are a few other pictures from our "snowed-in" days

On Friday morning, we all went outside and tried sledding around our backyard.  It was still very windy and icing, so I took Emma in after ten minutes.  She stood by the back door and cried, "more outside! Outside please!" over and over.  

 We read a lot of Christmas books by the fire.

Isaac and Emma received one of their Christmas presents early--another Jingle book!  Emma wasn't too eager to let go of Jingle the Dog.  She loves when he barks and howls in response to the Jingle book.  

A family from church gave us a set of Tinker Toys that Isaac especially loves.

We really weren't homebound for the entire storm.  We looked at houses with our realtor on Saturday, which ended up being quite an adventure.  We got stuck several times and even had to get pulled out once.  :)  When we arrived home late that afternoon, our driveway was glare ice.  Dave and Isaac chipped away at it for almost an hour before Dave could pull up into the driveway!

On Sunday morning, we watched a live feed of our service at Keystone!  

We also ventured out on Sunday afternoon to my parent's house.  Their snow was "stickier" than our snow, so Isaac was finally able to build a snowman.  He told me, "Mommy, this is not a snowman--this is a Snow Isaac!"

Since Dave was heading back to work on Monday morning, we knew our little snow-cation was winding down last Sunday night.  After we put Emma to bed, we let Isaac stay up that evening a little bit later for hot chocolate and our new favorite game to play with Isaac, "Spot It!"  Isaac also received his 2013 Christmas ornament--a crab since we had so much fun crabbing at the beach this past summer.

Our forecast is set for 60s later this week, but we definitely enjoyed our wintry weather while it lasted!