Thursday, February 3, 2011

Ice Storm

After coming home from Jeff and Jill's house, we saw on the news that sleet would begin falling in the middle of the night and it was going to be super cold on Tuesday (high - 17 degrees; low - 8 degrees).

We woke up to find everything covered in a sheet of white ice! Brent went to work but was home by 10am because his main office shut down and nobody was at the job site. So, we got the kids dressed, loaded up in the truck and went down the street to check it out. The roads were so bad! We did find a sloped parking lot so we pulled over, put Beck in our laundry basket and pushed him down it. He liked it but it was just TOO cold! We stoped by McDonald's to get Beck a Happy Meal and it looked like only the managers were working.

After nap time, I put two layers of clothes on Beck and let him dig in the ice...he wanted to make snowballs but he quickly realized there was nothing to pick up because it was frozen solid. He couldn't hold on to the tool that Brent gave him so he took his gloves off but that didn't last long. At one point, Beck's feet came out from under him and he landed on his booty...we are surrounded by a sheet of ice.

As you can see, the sidewalks, streets and our side yard are all iced over. I also captured a really pretty sight of sunrays beaming through the clouds.

Brent and Kinsey stayed in our warm house while we were outside freezing. Can you see Beck's rosey red cheeks?

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