Our snow measurement is in...

CORRECTION! Looks like 20 inches!! Oh my....lots of shoveling and cleaning out. The kids are out of school now until January 4th! They are excited (to say the least).

I loved watching this scene all day....as you can see now, you can't even tell it's a table on the deck..it's ALL filled in!





As of now, we have 17 inches.....it is beautiful and amazing! The snow has tapered off and according to our 'deck' it looks like we got 17". In most parts of our yard/property there is much more than that however from a measurement perspective, I think the deck is probably the most accurate. Ronnie and I have been in all evening - Chase and Cierra are at Grandma's for the night so we had dinner and we're just chillin' now ...Church is cancelled for tomorrow but I'm bettin' my flight to Minneapolis won't be :( Oh well.....gotta do what you gotta do, right?

P.S. If you're wondering why I am making such a big deal out of this...it's because I don't remember having this much snow since I was pregnant with Cierra in 1996!! I love it!

Inside the SNOW globe!

That's what it feels like. When we went to bed last night it had just started so I snapped this picture. It was starting to blow around on the porch...honestly it felt like 'a BIG one'. I woke up around 4:15 and it was very 'light' out and quiet.....everything was very still. I peeked out and it was still snowing and even blowing a little. We got out of bed around 8:30 and the scene from last night looked like this..The back looked like this
And now - looks like the snow globe is still being shaken (let me also say "with no end in sight") It is beautiful out there.
The bad news is Ronnie and Chase had to go plow and shovel to make sure all the apartments/townhouse residents can get out and are safe while Cierra and I are nice and warm inside with the candles burning...trying to decide what we want to get into.