Monday, April 4, 2011

The Great Blizzard of 2011

Lauren had fun on the snow Daddy shoveled from the driveway.


This was our back patio; the snow was as deep as the cushion on our chairs and drifted up to the grill.


The girls playing!


Katie lost her snow boot in a huge drift; she tried to step out of it and her foot came out of her boot!  "Handy Daddy," as Lauren likes to call him, came to the rescue and poked around in the snow until he found it!


A blizzard in Oklahoma--definitely one for the record books!!


The boys played in the snow for a little while...and then they decided that was enough!!

Well, now that we are safely into April, I thought I would post some pictures of the blizzard that we had on February 1st.  Wow...what a couple of weeks we had during the first half of February!!  Record snowfall (15 inches when the blizzard hit, then another 17 inches or so the next week), record cold temperatures (-27 degrees in Bartlesville), and school was cancelled for 7 days (they had already missed two days for snow/ice previously).  I must say that, although the snow made getting around town a real hassle for quite a while, it was beautiful and the kids had a lot of fun playing in it!

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