More Snow-y Adventures

Right now, we still have power and are enjoying the warm fire!

The snow is falling constantly!

wow! Look at the snow!


We can't even see anything with all this snow!

Let's throw snowballs at daddy!

I LOVE this!!!

Even if it IS cold!

Bradley: I DON'T like this, even if it's

the biggest snowfall I'll probably EVER see!!

Take me inside!!!!!!!!

the snow had reached about 4 inches by 4:00pm

Ironically, after I posted yesterday's picture, we lost our power!!! It was out from about 5:45pm till 1:30pm today. Nick and I really debated about what would be the best thing for us to do with no electricity; go to Nana and Pop's or stick it out (Gege and Papa's was out also). We were hopeful that our power would return some time during the night...but it didn't! Nick knew he had plenty of firewood to keep the den warm and Rachel really wanted us to camp out in the den. Of course, I wasn't sure what I wanted to do, and since we were tired and irritated that we had no power, we were having some "strong" discussions. Rachel kept wanting to chime in with her two cents about what we should do. Unfortunately, this just kept making me and Nick more irritated. We kept telling her very sternly, "Rachel, Wait just a minute, mommy and daddy are trying to discuss something important." Finally, after we begrudgingly reached a decision I was aggravated that we even had to make, Rachel said, "excuse me, mom and dad." We said, "what is it?" She said, "why don't you just pray to God and ask Him. He can take care of anything." I immediately started crying, because she was 100% right. And, this was not something I had even considered doing. So, we had a family prayer right then and there. I calmed down and we all made the best of a situation that we didn't want to deal with. As it turned out, Nick dragged our king-size mattress into the den, we grabbed every pillow, quilt and comforter that we owned, Nick went outside in the 5 inches of snow and brought every single piece of firewood up to our deck, and we made the best of it. We were NOT cold at all! In fact, I was hot and even sweaty all night long. The only way I could handle the heat from the fireplace was by keeping my unsocked feet out of the covers all night. Nick put logs on the fire every hour and the kids slept pretty well. Nick and I didn't, but we were sweetly snuggled with our 2 little babies and they were so precious with their snores and sleepy sounds. They wiggled all over and touched us with their 100 degree arms and legs. They slept pretty well until about 4 when Bradley woke up and was disoriented and sad. He decided he wanted to then sleep next to me. This made Rachel sad that she would no longer be right next to me. But, she gratefully snuggled up next to Nick. Then, Bradley said he needed "moy juice" (more juice). So, when I got up to get him some, the kids thought it was play time. They ran around and then got back in bed and were VERY silly for about 45 minutes, each of them keeping the other one going. Then, they fell back asleep at a little after 5 and slept until 8:30 or so. It really wasn't such a bad night, but I'm VERY thankful that we have our power back on, that we'll all be in our OWN beds tonight and that I won't have to smell, listen to or feel the warmth of a fire. (It's just too warm for ME!)