Crazy Beautiful

We are now officially in what I call "yo-yo weather."

Exhibit A: last Thursday

Exhibits B & C: today


























Seriously! Yesterday, the last vestiges from this week's ice storm was waning away. This morning I could barely see outside our window for the snow plastered to the screen. Add in steady downfall for the better part of the day and crazy drifts caused by gusting winds. Then, it stopped. And the sun began to shine. February would not be February in these parts o' the woods without a crazy winter storm.

beautiful

beautiful sight:

(melted snow running down the gutters)

beautiful sound: trickling water seeping into the ground signaling a most-likely-temporary reprieve from the snow

beautiful thought: cabin fever days are coming to a close as we get more days like these outside


beautiful play:
















(jackets discarded, faces to the sun, first swing of the new year)

(Ben practicing his snow shoveling techniques - practice while you can, Ben!)


Beautiful day.

You Know It's Cold When...

...you look at the weather forecast, 17 degrees F and think "it's warming up!" and then see 24 degree F a predicted a few days later and think spring is just around the corner.

These are pictures from March last year (since I don't have ones from this week) but it's about the same idea...

Here's a picture from Luke last year...once a crib-dwelling babe, now a big-boy-bed, ball-chucking little big man.

Snow (re)Cap

Wow - were we ever blessed with a great amount of snow this past weekend! Fortunately, the snowflakes weren't huge or I think we'd still be digging ourselves out. The snow fell for about 32 hours and between our house, the rentals, a friend and our church, Dave had to shovel/use the snowblower too many times to count. It gave people a lot to talk about as we all swapped stories. Here are some pictures to capture the event

our front steps up above!