Ice Storm

Well, the winter weather certainly has been interesting this year! We had the 15 inch snow in December, and now we are in the middle of a 3 day ice storm. It started with rain on Friday, which quickly froze, which meant we got out of school at 1:15 (YAY!). It iced all night Friday, started again Saturday afternoon, and just started again (9:30 Saturday night), and is supposed to continue all though the night. The bummer is that it canceled our youth road trip to KC's Crown Center. But we will be rescheduling! Those of you who know me well, know I can't resist interesting weather! Thus the thunderstorm watching from the front porch and the walks we took during the 15 inch snow! I just think weird weather is fun... I'm glad I live in Missouri so I get to see a little bit of everything! Anyway... true to form, Josh and I were outside playing in the ice last night and again tonight. The pictures are from last night. They're not great because there was so much precip that my camera kept trying to focus on the droplets instead of what I was trying to take a picture of. We played soccer with The Bella, which was pretty fun because the soccer ball really flew! It wasn't too slick for us to run on the ice, it was more like snow, so we had a good time. As you can see against the porch light, it was really coming down. Truman sat at the sliding glass door and meowed to let us know how abused he was since we wouldn't let him out... but when given the choice he decided maybe he'd stay inside!

We spent the day today helping Dad out at the big Indoor Garage Sale, which is usually a madhouse... due to the weather today, it wasn't such a success; I think most of the buying was done by the other dealers that were there! It was still fun, and I dropped and broke my cell phone, so Josh and I ran over to the mall. Turns out I was eligible for an upgrade, and the phone I wanted was buy one get one free, so Josh and I both got new phones for $40, pretty sweet deal! Anyway, by the time we left the garage sale, the ice had started again. It is so cold that when we went to eat and were there for 30 minutes or so we still had to scrape our cars again before we could go anywhere! The ground is much more slick tonight, too... Josh and I borrowed Charlie's sled and we've been using it to "snowboard" down the little hill in our backyard. We tried hooking Isabelle up to it, but she didn't seem to understand "Mush!"

Anyway, it has already been quite the eventful winter... but so far we've made it through safe and sound. Hopefully the family in Springfield will have power again soon!