Life as a Snowmad

As I am sure most people know, Arington had record snowfall this past week.  It started snowing early Thursday morning and did not stop until Friday morning.  The storm brought a total of 12.5" of snow in a 24hr period!

Snowcovered tree across the street, 2/12/2010

Our electricity went out a little past midnight on Friday morning from fallen limbs somewhere in the area.  It was nuts!  We had to pack up our things so we could begin our weekend as nomads.  Who knew we needed so much crap stuff for one night?

Pile of overnight stuff

After taking a shower at Tita Mandy's, we headed to the park to take a few pictures to document the occassion.  Can't you tell Noah is excited?!

Noah all bundled up in his potato sack and sleepywrap

"I'm cold!!! Take me home!!"

We hoped that our electricity would only be out for the night, but it ended up being out for over 72 hours.  Each morning we hopefully packed all of our bags and put it in the car, thinking it would be the last night we would be without electricity.... and kept getting disappointed!  To add to all of the drama, Joyous Creations had three cakes due this weekend.  The Sky Boss helped us out by nudging us to work on the two Saturday cakes on Thursday (instead of our original plan of Friday), so we only had to worry about one cake.  We loaded up all of our supplies and headed over to Joyce and Aaron's to work on it. I think it turned out pretty well, especially considering all we had to go through to get it done in time!

Nascar Cake, created by Joyous Creations

All in all, we lucked out.  We are SO blessed to so close to all our family... so close that we consider my dad and Patti to live "far", and they are only about 15-20minutes away.  We stayed at Micah's parents house and my mom's house, both who live less than 5 minutes from us, so that we could easily go back and forth to check the status of the electricity and get things as we needed them. They took great care of us... and we ate really well! Although it was a total pain in the butt, we had a few fun overnights, and I am pretty sure the grandparents loved every minute of it!

Here's to spring time coming sooner rather than later... and to swimsuits and sunscreen this summer!!!

xoxo,
~The Grant Gang