It's all about the memories

YES...is the answer when I think about how nice it would be to have a snowblower or a backhoe or a nice plow. BUT.....the memories we are creating would never be as memorable. Don was driving home from work on Friday trying to think of a way we could plow our driveway. He came up with a great idea and we spent a bit of time putting this together and going up and down the driveway plowing out the snow on Friday. The kids took turns taking a ride in the trailer (for added weight). We drilled the wood onto the trailer and then drilled the homemade plow onto the wood. Then we hooked the trailer up to the Expedition. Don and I took turns driving while the other was in the back holding down the wood to make sure it stayed firm. It really worked better than I thought it would. I was happy with the results. Yet we knew Friday night was going to bring much much more snow and it did. SO much more that this little rigged up piece would never be able to perform. BUMMER. Zach was such an awesome help. He had such great ideas when we told the kids what we needed to do. His little brain went to work thinking of all sorts of ways to plow the driveway.

This is what our garage door looked like when we opened it on Saturday morning. SO FUNNY.

You can barely see the trampoline. It is really sagging too.

Kids are playing out the front of our door. Can't even see our steps. We haven't even touched this area with our shovels yet. We are too burned out from doing the driveway. The plow has still not come by so I am not sure how Don will get to work tomorrow. Hoping they come.

Here the kids are having a blast getting up on the railing of the front porch so they can jump. Rachel was so brave. She just crawled up there and jumped. The other kids were a bit nervous and would just climb over the railing and jump.

Here Caleb is getting braver.

Ethan is working his way over the edge so he can jump.

He is so proud that he got to the other side. Now he can jump.

Here is Rachel so bravely just jumping. She loved it and kept doing it. She even crawled over the edge and did a belly flop. Crazy kids.

OK so this is our Expedition. You can see parts of it. LOL. We parked both of the vehicles down at the bottom of the driveway to make it easier to get them out.

There is Don's car. OH look. You can see the outside mirror.

WOW....that is what I say to all this snow. This area is not used to all this snow and we should have been prepared and had more than one shovel. I know that most of the stores in the area ran out. We ended up using our snow shovel and our regular garden shovel. Now that our boys are older we have more man power but without the tools it didn't matter. Zach and Caleb are getting sick anyway so they have been inside not doing much of anything. Don and I take turns trading shovels and popping Ibuprofin. :)

But I know this is a time when our family will never forget. Our power has gone out a couple of times and thankfully we have been super blessed. We received an email from a neighbor and he said that the power wasn't supposed to come back on until Feb. 12. I am so thankful that it is on. I think it is cool that we have this much snow. It is hard work trying to shovel it but it is so fun to have Don out with me. We have done a lot of talking and we go out TOGETHER every time after we come back in to get warm and rest. The kids have had fun playing and watching us sweat. Don asked me if I was still glad there we got so much snow and I said YES.