Snow My Goodness

To say that snow fell would be an understatement. Snow fell and fell and fell. And wind blew and blew and some more snow fell and fell. For about 18 hours straight, leaving about 20 inches of the white stuff on the ground. The 3rd largest blizzard in history, basically shutting down Chicago on Wednesday. We hunkered down on Tuesday night, had a few glasses of wine and just listened to the "thundersnow." It was quite an evening! We woke up the next morning to white and lots of it!
Here is the first path Matt made from the house to the garage. It would be the first of many that day!

All the snow meant that everyone was at home and outside ready to build forts, sled, have snow ball fights and just enjoy friends. Ethan had a blast playing with all our neighbors and they sure enjoyed showing him all the fun you can have in the snow.

Our little house! Because we are on the corner, we seemed to take the brunt of the drifting snow. As you can see, the snow is almost as high as our front windows. I don't think anyone is going to make it to our front door anytime soon!Matt, again, snowblowing. We figured it took him from about 8:30 until 3:30, with a break for lunch, to clear all the snow. Look at those straight lines!!This is looking out our front door after Matt cleared the walkway. Kind of gives you perspective on how much snow we really got!Henry didn't get to go outside so he took advantage of some major mommy time inside the warm house!Brothers enjoying some major bonding time. It has been really fun to spend a lot of time together as a family, we don't do that often enough!Ethan enjoying all his new cars! A gal in newcomers was selling her son's stash of cars from the Cars movie. I scooped up about 50 cars for $7.00. Not too bad for several hours of entertainment. Ethan is in heaven.

We hope everyone made it through the Blizzard of 2011 safely. Even though we will probably have snow on the ground until April or May, it was pretty fun to be a part of history. Makes the long winter months somewhat interesting and gives people something to talk about for the next week or so!