Ice & Snow Storm

The kids have officially been out of school for 10 days. We have lost power 4 of the 10 day, making for a cold, boring house. Everything here has been shut down, they don't mess around here. After living in AK, snow & ice don't really faze me. But, here in TN - It is a BIG freakin' deal. The ice covered everything & was absolutely beautiful! Unfortunately though we lost a large limb of one of our trees. It could have landed anywhere in our huge yard - but landed on & broke our pool pump/filter. Ugh. We have trees that line our driveway & the ice weighed down the limbs to the point the limbs were still attached, but touching the driveway. Crazy.

The kids have played in the snow before, but have never been sledding (We didn't have enough snow in WA). And, to be honest.. sledding is scary to me. If you know me well, you will remember the very bad sledding accident I was in as a child. But, I bit the bullet & bought the kids some sleds and the 3 of us went sledding in our neighbors yard. Grayson loved it from the get go. Garrison was a bit more apprehensive, but loved it all the same. We spent a couple hours outside & the kids exerted much of the energy they had built up.

This is what I mean by a little apprehensive

This tree already had buds, probably because it was 70 degrees 2 weeks ago!

The tree limbs we lost