Sunday, December 21, 2008

Deep Freeze

That's what a local news channel is calling this weather... I don't think it's that dramatic, but still cold and surely I haven't seen this much snow here since the silver thaw of 1989. 9 plus inches of snowfall yesterday! We are housebound and trying to keep us and the kids from going crazy, but it is really beautiful!

We have been baking cookies, working on projects, playing outside, watching movies, and playing trains. Doug was pretty diligent about keeping the driveway cleared off a bit. And we tried to keep the snow off our canopy, but failed as you can see... It gave up the ghost this morning with a loud bang!

I am a little disappointed to see the freezing rain this morning- the snow was much more beautiful, therefore more worthy of putting up with. Rain (freezing or otherwise) is just plain boring... and it looks like it might warm up just in time for Christmas, so instead of having a beautiful and really rare white Christmas, we will have a beautiful and quite common green Christmas. Gotta love Christmas in the NW...

5 comments:

Kristy E.B. said...

Beautiful pictures! Hylton looked a lot like Evany in that picture where he's smiling big, which I hadn't noticed before.

Rachel said...

Do you still have The Rowe's camera or is yours just as good? Those pictures of Hylton are so cute and professional looking!

I hope it's a "white Christmas" for you but we are stuck at home right now and it looks like we might be having food storage for Christmas dinner! One of our chains broke yesterday morning as we were tightening them and we hope we can make it to Les Schwab in the morning (without getting stuck) to get another pair and be on our way to Eugene. It sure is beautiful though!

I particularly want the snow to stop because the baking has got to cease in this house... Last week was plenty (201 cookies total) so tonight I turned to sewing- it kept me just as busy.

Have a wonderful Christmas and be safe if you have to drive to see family.

Adrianna said...

So this our camera now. It's just a point and shoot with some manual settings (that I never use), but mostly it's just about lighting and editing (and that only in Picasa) -it's pretty easy to get good looking photos with a little editing.

Poor Rachel- I hope you get down to Eugene. I think you'll be okay once you get past Salem... As far as the baking- I wish I lived at your house! Yum!

CëRïSë said...

Akkkk! Hylton is such a doll. Keep the pictures coming!

Heidi and Matt said...

those pics of hylton in your arms and on his belly are soooo cute. What a sweet little guy. Can't believe all that snow! WOW!