Snow Day!

The last time I remember snow like this on the ground was March of 1993... the weekend that Barry, his Dad, Kayti and I were all supposed to head out to Utah for Dawn and Shawn's wedding. We had to postpone our trip a day because the roads were so bad. Last week as I listened to the weather men all talk about the possibility of snow that was moving into our area, I really doubted that we would get much. But at the same time, I also knew that we had to get prepared, just in case this time they got it right. Growing up in the South taught me that you can never be too prepared when snow actually does hit... I can remember being showed in and without power when I was a teen-ager. That storm lasted weeks, and we were all so stir crazy by the time it was over.

I planned on trying to leave work a little early on Friday to get my grocery shopping done. Saturday was my regularly scheduled day, but I knew the stores would be PACKED and I wanted to avoid them. I didn't get there as early as I would have liked, and the place was a total zoo. There were a few aisles you could not even walk down, and lots of bare shelves, too. But, I got the majority of my shopping list checked off, and decided that what I didn't get could wait.

Barry and I watched the skies yesterday afternoon and evening. We were actually a little surprised when the weather men were still predicting 4-8 inches, then 6-10 inches of snow. These things usually go all around us, or fall apart the closer they get to us. Barry was cracking me up last night. He would check the radar, then run outside to see if he could see any flakes. Finally around 9:00 last night, he opened the front door and the ground was already white. He and I decided to bundle up and go for a walk. Kyle and Megan joined us... we didn't go far. The snow was coming down fast and hard, and so we turned around and came back home. The sky was so weird last night... we even saw the lightening and heard the thunder - Snowthunder. One of the weather men was saying that conditions like that could dump as much as 4 inches of snow in an hour. And on top of that, everything was just kind of glowing.

What a wonderland we woke up to today. We have been more out today than in, I think. Went for a walk, tried to build a snowman, then spent a long time sledding. The pictures can say it better than I can, but we have had a BLAST today!


We are so glad that Barry has been home with us today! The kids and I will be home again tomorrow, but I'm not sure if Barry will get to or not... we hope so, though! I've hated having to give up our spring snow days, but at least we have something fun to show for it!!