Surviving the Storm

The snow started Friday morning and didn't stop until Saturday night. Dan went out 5 different times to shovel the driveway and everytime it was covered by the time he was done. I've read that our snow total is somewhere between 17 and 24 inches. From looking at our deck I'd lean towards the 24 inches.

I am so glad that we haven't lost power. I'm sure a lot of people did. We had a couple of times where it was blinking on and off. I felt so unprepared for a power outage. Just now I saw the first snow plow trying to make it down our street. I wonder where they're going to push all this snow too.

So, we've been in Virginia 3 Sundays and every Sunday church has been cancelled! It's so crazy. Dan and I are starting to think we ought to just wait and go back to church when we're in Tooele. Next Sunday is Stake Conference so we won't really have a chance to meet anyone for 2 more weeks.

We got an email this morning saying school is already cancelled Monday and Tuesday! Since we've been in VA we've had 3 snow days and a late start and now we are getting 2 more! I don't know what we're going to do with ourselves. I was supposed to have my ultrasound on Tuesday but now I will have 5 little tag-a-longs and who knows if I could get off my street and down to Fredricksburg by then.

Speaking of which, we're expecting more snow on Tuesday and Wednesday.

The kids have been keeping themselves occupied with our couch cushions. We don't have many toys so I let them play with whatever interests them as long as it's not dangerous or easily broken. In order to not feel so trapped in our little house they've been building themselves littler houses inside our house. That way, when they swing their make-believe door open and go into the kitchen or living room they feel like they're going out. I think it's a good way of coping. I'm thinking of doing it myself.

Here are the boys on their couch made out of our couch cushions. Charlie also made a store as part of the game and was selling stuff to the kids. How could we live without shopping?

Here are the girls on their couch. I had to let them make two couches because the girls wouldn't get off of this one and the boys really wanted a cool place to sit too. They've definitely been having their disagreements here and there. Today Charlie was trying to get Donald to quit bugging him and Donald grabbed him and pinched him on the chest really hard. Charlie was yelling, "Donald pinched my nibble!"

Yesterday Rebecca wanted everyone to get 30 minutes of exercise because that's what her P.E. teacher told her she needs in order to be healthy. She tied tights and scarves together for make-shift jump ropes and had everybody jumping rope and doing push-ups in the basement while she timed them. I decided not to worry too much about the tights because we don't go to church anyways.

Hopefully we'll get one day out of the house before the storm on Tuesday.