SNOW!!!

I think it's safe to say that we had a pretty big snowstorm.  For this "west of the mountains" girl who watches the weather religiously and gets pretty excited for a few snowflakes, I was just as excited as T&T to watch it dump snow continuously for five days straight.  However, it was poor timing that it also happened to be the same week that Brian had a work trip in Nashville for the week.  And had to take the car to Portland to catch his flight after his Bend flight was canceled last minute.  And since the Land Rover was out of commission for the time being, that meant we were stranded at home the entire week without a car and with only one thing to do - play in the snow!!  By the time Brian flew back into Portland on Friday, there was also a massive storm there, but since we'd been stranded for the whole week, I needed him and the car home ASAP!  Even if it meant taking him 6 1/2 hours in a blizzard to get home.  Ah, the joys of living on the "other side of the mountains" :)

Day 1 of the snow. They loved watching the huge flakes falling from the sky. Notice where the height of the snow is on the fence. It gets considerably higher as the week continues!

The dogs probably love playing outside more than we do! 

A snow selfie :)

Not sure what they are looking for, but digging and sniffing in the snow is one of their favorite things to do!

Day 4.  So pretty at dusk.  And really starting to add up!  This was actually just hours before Brian got home.

And then the next morning, this is what we woke up to!  Notice the Snow Grand Canyon we had to dig for the dogs :)  And how high it is on the fence!

This is how much snow fell in one night.  Brian had just arrived home the night before and in less than 12 hours, the car easily had two+ feet of snow covering it!

Tristan helping to dig us out that morning.  After being home-bound for most of that week, we were beyond ready to get out of the house and do something!  And luckily, we had two birthday parties to attend!  Little did we realize that the roads were almost impossible to drive on with our low Audi.  But we were determined to get out of the house and be social!

More play time for the dogs.

Playing Where's Waldo with the Land Rover became our new favorite game :)

 This is how it looked when we opened our back door.  3+ feet piles of snow ready to spill inside.

Trip to the mailbox was a pretty big event.