SNOW ANYONE?!?

Yesterday/Sunday we woke up to a total blizzard. When we went to go to church at 9:00 we decided to drive since it was so windy and snowy outside. When Bill opened the garage there was more snow than we realized. Because of the way our garage is set back so far and the way it sits between the house and the neighbors fence - there was probably a 3 ft tall drift of snow behind the van, but it was only about 1 ft tall behind the Jeep. So we had our first family ride in the Jeep all the way to the church (maybe 150 yards from our house)! ;)-

Church only lasted long enough to have Sacrament Meeting, then the bishop decided to cancel the rest of the meetings and encouraged everyone to go help our entire neighborhood dig out. It ended up being a pretty nice day after the blizzard ended:

Here are Chaffee, Mason, Ethan and Madden posing while all their parents shoveled snow.

Chiara and the boys searching for the sidewalk leading to our porch.

Mason playing "London Bridges" under the neighbors snow blower shower!

The boys thought running through the snow thrown by the snow-blower was the greatest thing ever! I thought they were CRAZY!

Bill figures we had at least 16-18 inches of snow (35 inch tires half way covered + a couple inches packed underneath....so he says)

Sick of shoveling already!! Thanks to Lori and Eric for letting us borrow their snow-blower once they were done....Three and a half hours later, our whole street was FINALLY done! Wheew! What team work!!