Never seen this much snow in my life!

Well, when we returned from Oklahoma on Sunday night we found quite a lot of snow. It had snowed 4 inches the day we left but from the minute we got in the car we knew had missed the first blizzard of the season. As we drove through town we just saw these huge piles of snow in parking lots where they had compiled the cleared snow. They had made a median out of snow on the main street in town! We have never seen anything like this in our lives! Then, when we arrived on our street we found that our neighbors car had been buried in snow but the biggest surprise was when we arrived to our house. Our driveway was covered in 4 feet of snow. Now, I am NOT exaggerating here- literally 4 feet. We were like- what the heck are we supposed to do? Someone had cleared a little path thru the snow to our front door but there was no way we could get Brian's truck in the garage or get my car out. Brian shoveled for like... ten minutes without any progress and then decided there must be a better way.
Monday morning Stuart, one of Brian's co-workers, came with H&P's bulldozer or bobcat and moved our snow to a huge pile in our neighbors yard where apparently everyone is stacking their snow. I seriously don't know what we would have done without it. Today is Wednesday and that car is still covered in snow. Anyhow, the roads are much slicker now so we are having to be extremely cautious driving but the weather is nice, it should be in the 20's most of the week. So sad when I say that. It def should be an oxymoron to say nice and 20 in the same sentence.
None the less, it is still interesting to explore more of the earth that God created. This is def some different creativity!

Beau

Beau needs some blog love, so here it is!

It is now dangerously cold outside. The weatherman said the wind chill is currently -45. As in, Tulsa was prob 60 degrees today so that is a 100 degree differnce. How is that possible??????????????????????????????? He said our skin could freeze within 30 seconds if not covered up.Where am I????

9 degrees below 0, an Oklahoma blizzard

Well, as I said before, it is absolutely freezing, or actually well below freezing. The forecast for this week read something like:
-7, -9, 7, 23
It is so odd to see the 7 day forecast with single digits. You think they are cheating you with a 3 day or something. So, we love 20 degree weather now. We can walk outside or play and we don't even necessarily need our gloves. Anything below that is freezing.

Sunday morning we woke up to our first "big" snow, about 4 inches. Here in ND you wake up to the sound of snow blowers instead of lawn mowers. People wake up early and excited to shovel snow!

We went to a new church on Sunday and we liked it better. I think we will go back. And- big news, we have friends!!!
We had met a couple at church our first week here and hadn't seen them since but we ran into each other at the mall on Friday night. Anyways, they came over for dinner on Saturday night and stayed to hang out. They are a lot like Tyler and Kendall so that is good news for them. Then we went to church together and lunch afterwards on Sunday. Thank you Jesus! Even Baker missed the interaction of inviting people into our home.

This is a video of Sunday as Brian is shoveling our driveway b/c like I said- people are a little OCD about it here.

Wyoming

We spent last week in Wyoming. It was beautiful there too. Lots of snow on the ground and Casper was enclosed with mountains. We enjoyed our stay outside of the hotel at Ross, Hobby Lobby, and eating with other H&P families, which is really our only circle of friends, if they would dare to call us that.

Also while we were gone Baker reverted to peeing on himself again. He goes poop in the potty but he is just too busy to pee in it. He also likes to dump the bucket when he is finished. Sick me out. While we were in the hotel I caught him dumping his own poo and no he is not a good aim. Sorry to say but it was all over him; arms, legs, face, toilet, everywhere. Sick. Sick. My goal now is just to get him out of diapers before kindergarten. Oh how my child rearing ideals have failed me. We have finally mastered the big boy bed though. He falls asleep on his own, in bed without getting out during nap time and bed time. Thank you Jesus! I don't wish that transition upon anyone lacking in patience.
He is doing well with his words too. He has the noun/verb simple sentence down. Eg... Beau poop, Beau sneeze, or adjectives.. Big deer, big gun. Its hilarious. Beau is doing well- just fat and happy. I am trying to get him to swallow cereal, another messy endeavor. Parenthood is great, but it'll kill you if you don't learn to laugh, and we are doing plenty of that!

Anyways, love yall.

Baby, it's cold outside!

As I write, it is 5 degrees outside, Fahrenheit. A couple of weeks ago it was in the 50's and 60's and now we have dropped straight to the single digits. Yesterday Beau went for his 6 month checkup and it was -8, as in 8 below 0, not 8 below freezing. AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!
I have to say it is beautiful. I am fully embracing winter in North Dakota and I am actually really liking it. The snow has blanketed everything and sets the perfect mood for the holidays. The best thing about it is the snowflakes.I guess in Oklahoma it has always just been like sleet snow or something b/c Brian nor I have ever seen snowflakes like these. Our God is the creator God and he is artistic and praise worthy. We all played outside on Sunday and Brian and I both noticed the snowflakes and we were amazed. They are as tiny and intricate as the paper cut outs that you make at school. They are perfect! I think I once heard that there are no 2 snowflakes alike and now I believe it. It reminds me of Crazy Love and how Francis Chan says if we really know our Creator we will be in awe of Him and if you freakin saw these snowflakes, you would be amazed. So, I attached some pics using my Ashley Campbell skills of Macro and you can enjoy them too.

I don't think we will be going outside too much. Baker however, loves the snow. He LOVES his snow boots Mary, and he is always asking to go outside. The only problem is he doesn't keep his gloves on and after about 15 minutes on Sunday of being outside he was just screaming b/c his hands hurt. It's brutal. Poor guy, he will learn though.

Anyways, I saw on the Today show that a major storm is coming through the US. It looks as if it will hit you all worse than us, so maybe we will all have a white Christmas.