blizzard 2009--pt 1

So Blizzard 2009 headed into Oklahoma on Christmas Eve. We were pretty much the only ones we know that were excited. Of course, first thing when the white started collecting on the ground we had to head out to play in it. But the wind was pretty darned miserable so no one stayed long. Poor Carter bailed after about 90 seconds, the big monkeys held on for about ten minute intervals.

A quick pose with Daddy (notice the squinty faces, the wind was absolutely skin piercing)...

A dog pile after a good attempt at a snowball fight...Emi on top and Trev on the side, Joshua and Art on the bottom, and Reese looking on.

Em and Trev attempting to make snowmen, but the snow was so dry they couldn't get anything to stick together...

Trevor, Joshua, Emilee and Art posing and trying not to fall over in the gust of the wind...

Trevor on the mountain of snow that was drifting on the side of the house (it ended up about three feet deep by the end of the storm).

Christmas Day morning...chatting with our neighbors as they dug out their driveway and told of their wary night adventures of getting their car stuck and having to abandon it in the middle of the street and sleep at the relative's house.

This is their car before it was dug out. The front end and entire under carriage was buried in the snow about two feet deep. It took five guys to dig and push it out. Besides this car, Joshua and Art hopped around the neighborhood and rescued/dug out/pulled out about a dozen people. It was sort of like Joshua's towing service again lol. He enjoyed helping everyone, and had a BLAST hot rodding and sliding and 4x4ing all over our subdivision...Joshua to the rescue!

Our house in the calm after the storm.

One of the most amazing sights of the storm...the view out the front window with snow gathered on the sills.

Posing for some snow pics...


The bundled up monkey in this pic is Trevor...

Red neck sledding in a laundry basket with some rope...thanks for the ride, Art!

The three foot horizontal drift that formed from the snow blowing off of our roof. Poor Reese couldn't even jump it to go potty lol, we had to dig him out a path!

More rides in the basket!!

And this is one of the best treats of a blizzard...SNOWritas! We were out of ice so Joshua headed into the backyard to utilize nature. It made THE MOST soft and delicious margaritas!!