Dreary Winter

I gotta say, snow is great for Christmas and maybe even a little bit in January, but I don't remember ever having Spring fever like I do this year! We got hit with several big snow and ice storms the last few weeks and it makes me really miss the Las Vegas winters we used to enjoy! I've lost count of how many snow days off from school Addy has had, I think we are at 7 or 8.

Watch out if you come to our front door! With a house facing North we have an ice skating rink. And heaven forbid if an icicle fell on your head...or you walked into one (yes, they are THAT long)

The ice storms do make for some cool pictures. It was so nice to see the sun, even if it was in the negative digits.

We have spent so many hours outside shoveling. Seth has dreams about using a snow-blower on our 200+ foot driveway.  I told him he's lucky he has a wife who helps him shovel it ;) It has been a great workout! This is after one of the big storms, I never thought I'd have to bend down to check our mail.

 Boy, was I in for an awakening when the next 14 inches of snow came! We had to dig out our mailbox! Living on a pretty busy road means our road is plowed before most, however, the snow plows are constantly pushing more snow into our driveway and we are forever doing extra work to dig ourselves out again. I think we dug through 3 to 4 feet that was piled up after the last storm.

The daunting driveway.  The snow piles are so big, we ran out of places to put it.

 

 

Seth scraping away a giant snow pile so we could put more on. Driving on the roads is crazy, all the snow makes the lanes very narrow and it feels like driving through tunnels everywhere because it is piled so high.

 

Did I say 14 inches? I wasn't exaggerating. Here's proof. 14 inches of NEW snow. Did I mention we already had at least a foot and a half of other snow from earlier in the week? 

Buried car

I wish I had a picture handy of what our patio looked like in the fall for comparison, but this gives an idea of the snow on top of snow on top of rain on top of snow, etc...  

 

 

 

I have to give a shout out to my awesome husband. After spending the day working from home, then shoveling and being completely exhausted, he built a snowman with Addy just before it got dark. She loved it even though it didn't look like "olaf" because she has been obsessed with all things "Frozen" after she's seen the movie countless times. (She's told me a few times that "the cold never bothered me anyway.") Since Seth is the newly called Edler's Quorum president at church he found out that they are in charge of clearing the walks after all the snowstorms. Thus, after spending countless hours shoveling our own snow, he makes the 15 minute trek to the church to do the same thing there. (Luckily, there is a snowblower--although it broke for the 14 inch snowstorm!)

 

No, Cohen did not play in the snow in his pjs. He just went out for the photo. He couldn't take his eyes off the snowman.

This is just a glimpse of our winter.  It's hard getting so much unwanted snow and rain when people in Utah are fasting and praying for it. Boy, do I wish I could send some over! I am grateful for having 4 seasons, but it seems like winter is taking over right now...