The Calm AFTER the Storm

Was it the "Snowpocalypse"? Or was it the "Shopper Stopper Storm"? Whatever you called it, we had a whole lot of snow here yesterday!
I first heard mention of snow on Thursday morning. I overheard a shop keeper mention 5 inches while I was out on an errand. By the time I was running on my treadmill on Friday morning, they were talking about 8-11 inches starting late Friday evening. My parents were supposed to come on Saturday morning to celebrate an early Christmas with us before they left for their vacation. They changed their plans to arrive Friday and try to beat the storm. I spent Friday running around like a chicken with my head cut off trying find boots for little C - Target only had rain boots, but they worked better than him wearing his only pair of shoes with sandwich bags over his socks.  After realizing that the snow was going to impact our Saturday dinner plans (going out!) I had to face the fact that I needed to go to Wegman's to get some groceries... I've always prided myself on not rushing out to the grocery store on the day before a storm. But there were extenuating circumstances right?
So we survived that, and I spent the afternoon creating my video submission for MeRa Koh's Soar With Mera Scholarship.  It shouldn't have been too difficult to do, but I let the pressure of it get to me and got myself worked into a tizzy about it.  My wonderful husband came home early to help me record it and edit it, and then we spent the rest of the afternoon cleaning up for our early arriving company.  My parents arrived about 20 minutes before the first flakes began to fall, and we spent the evening enjoying their company and watching the snow pile up.
When we got up yesterday morning, there were already 6-8 inches on the ground and it was coming down like crazy.  We bundled the boys up and they set out to help shovel the driveway.

Like the boots?!  He sure does.

 

Big C decided that it might be a lot of fun to try his off-roading remote control car in the snow.  Turns out, the snow sticks to the wheels pretty quickly and jams it up.

About an hour after these pictures were taken you couldn't even tell anyone had shoveled.  Another 10 inches came down during the course of the day, giving us a total of 19" officially.  Last night I took a few pictures looking out the front window.  These aren't totally in focus, but I like them.

After a restless night of sleep, punctuated by the scraping and beeping of plow trucks, (can't say the plow guys here aren't thorough) I woke up early and took my camera out to document the peace and beauty of the fresh snow.  This is what the sunrise looked like today.

This is my Dad's car that spent the day in the driveway.  The drifts were amazing!

Our neighbor's back yard.  Care for a picnic?

Back to work again this morning!

So that was our weekend.  In between the snow, we had a lot of fun celebrating with Noni and Pops and Uncle Kev.  Hope you stayed warm and have managed to dig your way out!