WE GOT SNOW!

Well, we've been waiting for awhile, (at least it feels like awhile) but we finally got our first big snowstorm! It's really hard to measure how much we really have, because of the fierce wind that has accompanied the snow. On our deck we have about 3 feet, in our yard and driveway about 16-20 inches, by the tree in the front yard, 2 inches, and on the far right side of the house, no snow at all! That should give you all a bit of an idea on the amount of wind we had and the drifting that occurred! The falling of snow ended about 9 AM on Monday, I'd say, but the wind was at it almost all day long, and boy was it fierce! We kids experienced this wind for a short period of time, when we went out to take some pictures, but we were not able to stand the cold for long! ...well, I should say, we girls were not able to stand it for long, because Andrew and Daddy went outside again to shovel the driveway.

This first picture is on Sunday night, and is of our backdoor window...the wind has blown the snow into a very cool design!

This next picture is of the window over our sink: Another specimen of the wind!

Just thought you all might like a picture of the actual snow falling...
This demonstrates one of my favorite features on my camera! (I've had it for almost two years, and I'm still finding fun features!) It's called the Night Landscape setting, and I think it slows the shutter speed down, so that the picture isn't blurry, but there isn't a flash...Sorry...I digress.

Still on Sunday night: this is the ruler showing that we have 15 inches...there was some drifting already, but it wasn't as much as later.

This is the view on our porch that we woke up to on Monday morning. I don't know if you can really see the amount of snow from this picture, but on the porch there was a TON of snow! Our picnic table is in the middle, and the snow has almost completely engulfed it!

This is just another shot of the snow... This time from our front window.

Now we're out in it to take some more pictures! This one is Julie running...If you didn't know that already.

...and this is me, not running in the snow.

This isn't a great picture of Andrew, but it shows that he was having a great time taking pictures of the snow itself.

Andrew was so kind as to take this picture of Julie and me together...you don't want to see the ones we tried by ourselves...yeah, they were all pretty disastrously funny.

So if you weren't able to really experience the snow, I hope the pictures were able to give you a small taste of it!