Snow Day

A lot has happened in the past few weeks, so I'm going to attempt to blog about it all in the order that it happened! Three weeks ago, we had a really bad windstorm that knocked out power for about 15 hours, it was cold and windy and not a fun night! The lights went out around 9pm Monday night (conveniently at bed time) and didn't come back on until the next afternoon. I already think my parent's house is creepy enough at night, especially without a fan or something to drown out the noise...but with all the power out there was no fan noise, no monitor noise, no nothing...just the sound of the wind outside, knocking down tree branches and making a big huge mess...again, not a fun night!

So we recovered...and moved on and Timothy wasn't too traumatized by the lights going out, and then that Saturday, Brandon and I spent the day in Seattle while the kids hung out at Aunt Heather and Uncle Kevin's house (thanks again) and while we were finishing up dinner (at the Space Needle - how awesome is my hubby!!), Heather called and said that their power had gone out...poor kids!

Then on Sunday it started snowing and it snowed and snowed and snowed!! I had a doctor's appointment Monday morning, and I decided to keep it, the snow hadn't accumulated too much so I figured we'd be fine. I dropped Timothy off at school and took Charlotte with me. We had to park in a garage across the street and down about a block from the building I needed to be in so I bundled Charlotte up in the stroller and we faced the cold and (light) snow. I had to stop by the lab first to drink that yummy glucose test drink, went upstairs, talked with my doctor - and I'm not sure I've mentioned this yet, but I LOVE her, she's been so great - but the downside of the visit was that their computers kept crashing so it took longer for her to print off a couple of things that I needed, we made it down to the lab in time, thankfully they weren't busy and got me in right away, took plenty of blood (woohoo) and then we had to go back up to the doctor's office to make the next four appointments (still can't believe it's already time for bi-weekly visits) and then FINALLY we were ready to go! We bundled up again and headed out into the cold and a good 3 inches of snow that had fallen in the two hours we had been inside!!!

Poor Charlotte was covered by the time we got back to the car and I was trying really hard not to panic...it was a little ironic since my doctor had just given my a prescription for panic attacks!! I've never really driven in the snow and I was so scared. We slid a little until we got to a clearer road and then it took me over an hour to get back to Timothy's preschool to pick him up. Thankfully, Brandon left work early and beat me to the school and got Timothy on time and then we followed him home, normally a half an hour trip that took close to two hours!!

Once we were home, the snow was beautiful, Charlotte took a good nap, Timothy and Brandon played outside and had a snowball fight and it was a great day. The next day...all that pretty snow had turned into a solid sheet of ice and the temperatures weren't supposed to make it out of the 20's for a few more days...so Brandon and I decided to pack up our stuff early and head to a hotel across from the airport to stay for the night to make sure we wouldn't miss our flight Wednesday morning. We were very thankful for my dad's four wheel drive and the nice warm hotel room and we were incredibly thankful that the airport wasn't packed and crazy on Wednesday...more details about our trip to TX to come, including another ride on the Polar Express!