Winter Storms

Yes, You read right... I said storms with an 'S.' We are on our 3rd, maybe 4th storm now... I lost count. We are under so much snow! We have canceled all our plans. Last Saturday, I went to GH to pick up my grandmother to stay with us till and through Christmas. My parents were supposed to come in today to stay with us at our house for Christmas, but GH has declared a state of emergency, which means they are under lots of snow and ice. My parents also live on a hill, so they are pretty much stuck. Christmas with them may be on New Year's.

We have had to also postpone Christmas with Eric's parents till unknown date. Unless they all want to come here Christmas Day, park their cars at the top of the road and trek down a 1/2 mile to our house... but they didn't like that idea too much. ;)

Another party postponed was our annual trip to Eastern WA, with some friends to their cabin. We offered them our snowy abode, but that was also declined. Nobody wants to walk 1/2 a mile in the snow... go figure.

Without further adu... here are some pictures of our beautiful white winter wonderland!

(You may wish to view other pictures of the blog (normal days) to truly see the snowy affects. It is hard to take a photo of snow drifts... it all looks white).

That is our Christmas Tree, still sitting in the back of the truck. There is so much snow (about 4 ft or so next to the back of the house) that the tree pot is frozen to the truck. We do have a tree inside though, no worries. When I was at my parents house, my mom told me to cut down a little tree in their back yard for Isabelle. Her little tree is now our tree. :)

What steps?? There were three there at one point. Now just a trail. After last nights wind storm, some of the railing and that bin has disappeared.

Here is part of our driveway. You can sort of see the rolling hills of the snow drifts. Find the post with Isabelle with the apple... you sill see this same shot in that post, snow free.

Our Neighbor, trying to plow our private road. It took him close to 20 hours to plow from the top our driveway (we share a driveway entrance) to top of the road. He finished yesterday, just in time for last night's storm to hit. He was out again this morning starting all over, since the wind blew more snow on the road.

This is a 6ft fence... Mt. Rainer is just to the right of the fence post, in the pink sunset.