Rachel and Daryl's Family: Snow: Round Two

Having already been stuck in the house for two days and then choosing not to go out Wednesday when the kids had late start while Luke's preschool was still closed, I naturally stocked up on food on Thursday instead of that Friday. I was able to avoid most of the craziness that ensued of Friday as everyone made a run at the grocery stores before we had more snow hit us Friday afternoon. I did go into a Safeway Friday morning for three things and it was a little intense. Apparently the first thing to go in a situation like this is bagels. Otherwise Friday before the store hit I was preparing by going to our local chocolatier, Boehm's.

Luke went to preschool that day, but was done at noon. Daryl tried to go into his office until noon, but he kept getting to me calls in the morning to leave his computer at home. He wanted to pick the girls up from school even though they had an early dismissal at 1:40 because it was supposed to start snowing before then. Daryl was home with the girls by the time Luke and I came home from preschool. That proved to be a very wise decision. The bus the girls would have rode took three hours to get the kids home, and this was after it got stuck halfway up our hill. The parents of the children were forced to walk 45 minutes in the heavy snow to go claim their children. It was an absolute nightmare.

We stayed home all weekend. Avery made a run to the store Friday just as the snow started for tortilla chips, but we walked. We really enjoy living in walking distance to our local market. I went to the store Saturday and found it humming with activity. It didn't have any bread left and the milk was slim pickings, but other than that there was plenty of food. I think the Starbucks was having its best sale day ever too. A park with perfect sledding slopes is adjacent to the store, so everyone was going there after sledding. Sunday church was cancelled, so now we are just waiting for round three of snow to come in the evening. I'm not sure when the kids are going to go to school again because snow is supposed to come almost every day this week.

Luke and I while waiting to go into preschool. He had a grand time pretending to drive.

Luke was upset with me for not driving the way home he suggested.

Hitting up Boehm's Candy before the storm hit.

Avery and I walking to the store.

The park on Friday as it started to snow.

Avery holding her mitten up for some reason.

We shoveled a lot of snow this weekend.

The kids staying cozy at home.

The snow stopped Friday night around six, so we went out to shovel and Harper loves helping with snow shoveling.

Daryl and Harper shoveling. After this we rounded up the rest of the kids and went sledding on the side road next to our house. It was really fun and kind of eerie with how quiet everything was at seven at night.