Snowy Surprise

 We had about 6-7 inches of snow on Monday and as the week went on, the forecast looked more and more like we would be getting more snow. Based on all the different forecasts I saw that we were predicted to get anything from 3 up to 10 inches. The snow began Saturday morning and it snowed all day! We did not even leave home yesterday or today.
 We got close to 20 inches of NEW snow!! Yes, on top of the 6 to 7 inches we already had! The pictures above are on the back deck before the rain began and packed the snow down a bit. The pictures below were when Brent went out in the yard for just a few minutes yesterday. The snow actually came up to his knees and it snowed for at least 3-4 hours more after this picture!

 The girls and I ventured out for a little while today when it warmed up around lunch. I had Brent get a couple pictures of the girls just so we could remember how big they were when we had this much snow and how deep this snow was. This is the biggest snow any of them have been a part of in their lives! This is all that could be seen of their toy car from the grandparents and it wasn't going anywhere today!

February 23. 2015

 The big girls are standing as close to the ground as we could get with the snow and ice crusted underneath. You can see how deep it would be on each of them after it had been packed down by the rain some. Yes, Bethany is sound asleep. I bundled her up and took her outside and within 10 to 15 minutes she was sound asleep again. Brent made her a little opening in the snow for this picture with her sisters and I held her up and she slept through it all! Yes, I laid her down in the sled and she slept on! I couldn't believe it!

 This snow was definitely the packing type that you could build with so the girls wanted to build a "gigantic" snowman. This is the base of the snowman.

 Here is Brent and the big girls midway through the building.

 Here is the completed project. Meet Emma Olaf! Bekah contributed Emma and Rachel contributed Olaf to the name.

 I am thinking it might be awhile before we see the ground without snow again as temperatures are supposed to plummet again and all this is supposed to refreeze. I have also seen a couple of forecasts saying there might be more coming later this week! Oh my!