Birthday Blizzard

This year I had dinner/movie plans in Amarillo for my birthday weekend, which was March 27th. They didn't happen, but it was ok because we had the best blizzard in years! I love snow, and we haven't had a really good one since we moved to Booker four years ago!



We were only out of power for about 8 hours Saturday afternoon. My parents had power, so my dad dug out of his driveway with his new bobcat and came to town to pick us all up. All the streets in town were covered with about 2 ft. of snow and the drift in front of the garage was about 7 ft. so we couldn't get out! This is Tristan on top of a drift outside my parents house!

It started snowing Thursday night, and by midmorning Friday, it was a winter wonderland. The kids and I made it over to my sister's house in the van before the driveway got too bad. But, by the time we got back, it had already drifted about 18in. in front of the garage. We suited up and the kids played while I shoveled in front of Matt's side so he could get in to park. He came home early from work before lunch. What a fun snow day! As the kids and I were out in the blizzard conditions, (we were pretty protected from the wind by the garage) I thought to myself...There is no way that my mom would of let us play in this weather!

On Saturday, we were supposed to cook out with my sister and her friend David, but none of us could get our cars out. David didn't have snow clothes, so I packed a backpack and hiked over to Steph's house to take him Matt's clothes. We loaded up the food and all hiked back to our house. Just as we got back, the power went out! Matt fired up the grill and we cooked/heated all the food outside.

Spring snows are the best because after the initial storm it warms up to play in. Usually there is not much snow so it melts too fast to have much fun, but it took several days to melt all of this snow. The kids had so much fun...and so did we!