Blizzard 2016

Well, we have officially survived our first blizzard in our  new house. I've been through a few blizzards since I moved to the East Coast, and I gotta say it feels a LOT different when you own a house!! When I lived in the apartment, my only real concern was about my car in the parking lot. But for this blizzard we had our cars in our garage (so that is AWESOME), but instead I was worried about things like our roof, gutters, windows, trees (they all stayed strong!), bushes, etc...  I think we definitely ended up getting over 24 inches of snow, but I don't know the exact amount. I found a total for the town of Malvern which is right next to us, and they got just over 28 inches. It was impossible to just measure the amount in our yard because of the insane winds... It was blowing the snow all over the place and creating these massive snow drifts that were WAY over 2 feet. The snow drift on our front porch (blocking our front door) was almost 5 feet tall. We could only leave our house by the back door or the garage door.

On Friday night it was already snowing pretty good by the evening, and when we woke up on Saturday morning we had probably about 12 inches of snow already. It continued to snow quite hard throughout the whole day, so we didn't do much! We made some homemade waffles and some coffee and had a nice breakfast, and then we bundled up to take Guinness outside to play. He LOVES the snow! We had three or four trips out to play with him throughout the day yesterday, and it was exhausting for us too because trying to walk in the crazy amounts of snow was difficult! Guinness loved hopping around like a bunny though. We watched a LOT of movies yesterday, and we had a fire going all day in our fireplace. It was quite a lovely day!!

All of these pictures are from Saturday, when there was still lots more snow falling: 

He was digging.. He thinks it's super fun to bury his frisbee in the snow! We lost one yesterday...

Our house yesterday afternoon. You can see the snow drift on the lower roof over the front door. 

Here's a photo series I call "Bounce through the snow and attack the frisbee":

 And today we spent about 4 hours shoveling our driveway (just half of it) and walkway and front porch. It is a LOT of snow. Oh and McGee climbed up on our roof and was shoveling some of the snow off, because it was SO much snow! The wind had caused quite a snow drift on our roof, so it was quite heavy and that can be dangerous. After about 4 hours, we could no longer shovel (our muscles were giving up), so we came inside to eat a very late lunch and now we're watching football! So far this Broncos-Patriots game is good!  I'm rooting for the Broncos (most people are very aware of my hatred for the Patriots...), and then I'm rooting for the Panthers in the next game. I think Broncos-Panthers would be a great Super Bowl!  Here are some pictures from today, so you can maybe tell that we got a lot more snow since the pictures I took yesterday:

This is after we'd started shoveling.. You can see how deep the snow was we were having to shovel! 

Here's some of the snow hanging off our roof... McGee ended up slicing it off the roof with our pole saw.

This is when I'd been shoveling our walkway for quite a long time, and I'd almost reached our front porch. 

Here's a photo series of McGee sledding down our street. When we first moved-in he'd joked that he wanted to sled down our street (it's insanely steep), and this was his chance! There was a HUGE mound of snow at the bottom of our street, so that made it safe-ish because it'd stop him (plus no one was out driving because the roads weren't very drive-able yet): 

And here's a few more pictures of our house area: 

There's our beers to help us with shoveling. We had music going too. 

 Here's some pictures of Guinness playing in the yard today:

Burying his frisbee... I was keeping an eye on this one since we already lost one yesterday!

 That's the Blizzard of 2016! Sorry for the abundance of pictures (but not really! :) ).