white Christmas

I'll admit it. I've always thought it would be so festive and fun to have a white Christmas. So, I couldn't help but get all excited when the weathermen started talking about the possibility of it actually happening this year (we never get snow here...ice? yes. Snow? no!). However when it did actually happen, to the magnitude that it happened, I couldn't help but feel ashamed for what I'd been wishing for. I got my white Christmas alright, but oh my goodness, I sure have learned the hard way to watch what I wish for! As our local weatherman said, "This is one for the record books folks!" Central Oklahoma has never seen kind of wind/snow combination(blizzard...can we really have one of those here?) ever. It is beautiful for sure, but what a mess it caused. We only have to drive 5 miles to get to mom and dad's house, but it sure was work to get out of our neighborhood to get there! Here are some pics from the past few days in OKC....

back porch only midway thru the day...it got much more than this

Darren had to work the day of the "blizzard" and couldn't get the car up the driveway by the time he got home so it sat at the foot of the driveway all night

snow got stuck between the window screens and the window. it looked so pretty

after the wind died down (after dark) the boys ventured out to play for a bit

they didn't last long (they were inside by the time I had Cale dressed and ready to head out!)

I think they had fun even if just for a short time!

I think maybe Coby stayed out a little too long...he looked FROZEN when he came in! Thankfully he thawed out quickly :)

three hot chocolates with marshmallows coming right up

we had some large snow drifts outside of Connor's windows and look at the snow on Connor's windows

you can see Darren in the garage on Christmas morning...he was taking a break from shoveling. He was trying to get the car unstuck so we could hopefully head to my parent's house. After a few hours the car was free!

Here are the boys in the car, less than a block from our house....and we were already stuck! Daddy and some wonderful men quickly got us out of our predicament!

This is the street we needed to get down, but can you see that there were FOUR cars already stuck there. SO, we went off roading thru this field and were able to go around all of them and get on the road to mom and dad's YAY! It was a Christmas miracle...ha.

After lots of shoveling and pushing (on Darren's part) we made it out of out of our 'hood!!!! Where there's a will, there's a way.

WE MADE IT! An hour and a half late, but we got to spend Christmas with family.

More on Christmas in a day or two....