bored of snow pictures yet?

On Tuesday night it started snowing. And snowing. School was cancelled Wednesday in anticipation of the all-day snow event. The storm came in 2 parts. The first 5-8 inches or so was a wet and nasty snow, so we got outside earlier in the day to shovel out and avoid it freezing in place. The second part of the storm was blizzard0like conditions with lots more snow. All in all we apparently got 15.8 inches in Philadephia, making it now the snowiest winter on record. So much snow that we were able to make a snow cave and small sledding hill within our own yard. And no school on Thursday afternoon. Crazy. Excuse the pictures because most were taken with my cell phone cause it was too snowy and windy to bring the camera out.










As I said, the snow was a wet icy snow. We watched the trees get lower and lower with ice. For a long time there was a tree across the street bent over the street into our property and resting on power lines. And it was windy. Very windy.

After losing power 7 times prior to that, the 8th time left us totally in the dark. Tyler enjoyed playing lincoln logs by flashlight and later "camping" in his room. Surprsingly both boys went to bed without hassle. Me, on the other hand, was bored out of my mind!

Luckily the power returned by 10:30 or so, as it was already getting quite cold in the house.

On Thursday we awoke to a truly beautiful site. I wish I would have gotten outside to take some pictures right away, as these were taken through the window. By the time I got out later in the day the snow had fallen from the trees quite a bit. Oh well. Lesson learned.


So Tyler wanted snow this winter, and boy did the weather gods deliver. I'm pretty sure that this winter has made up for the past 4 winters we missed in balmy Florida.