Ice Storm 2013

Yep, it was 83 degrees last Wednesday and the ice storm hit Thursday night.  Cooper came in our room ecstatic on Friday morning because there was snow outside his window.  Nope, that's not snow buddy, pure ice!  This city/state shuts down in weather like this…schools, businesses, our trash service, you name it.  Seriously, it was crazy!  We didn't leave the house until Sunday night for dinner and grocery shopping.  What did we do all those hours together in the house?  Well, glad you asked...

 Nineey the Elf brought a gingerbread house!  

 I am not a licensed gingerbread house builder.  Of course it doesn't help when you have 2 kids asking if you are done every 2 minutes and a 2 year old that won't stop eating the candy.  Adam intervened here and re-assembled the home…I had given up.

 The finished product, they loved it!

There was lots of coloring…more on their current coloring phases later.  I am in love with their artwork.

Here's what it looked like out our backdoor, a couple inches of ice.

You know you live in Texas when…you have to use socks as gloves for your daughter because you don't own any of the actual things!

 Here's where fun Dad comes into play.  There was no way I was taking the kids out to play!  If you know me, you know this is 110% true, I don't do cold weather.  

 The dog had to be forced outside on a leash to go to the bathroom, otherwise she was just going in the house.  Adam was thrilled by this :).

 It was so cold, in the 20's!  Laney didn't last long, lack of gloves was probably a main reason.  Cheers to a fun Dad that got those kids some fresh air each day!

Shockingly Cooper lasted quite a while!  He is like me in the temperature department, doesn't do cold.  Here's another way you know you live in Texas, you use a recycling lid to sled down the sidewalk and driveway.  Click here to see video of Cooper in action.

 Another day, another Pinterest project.  I had to keep these kids occupied without watching TV and not going crazy playing pretend myself ;).  

 They loved building these marshmallow snowmen!  They turned out really cute, wish I had a final picture to share.

 Lots of basketball and dance parties…not sure which was happening here.

 Because when it's below freezing outside, who doesn't love a little naked Christmas book reading?

 She read to Mickey and Minnie for almost an hour!  She wouldn't let any of us in her room, kept her door closed.  It was just about the cutest thing ever!

 There was lots of dress up and pretend play.

In her hour of story time, she pulled every.single.book. we own into her room.

 We finally escaped the house Sunday night!  The temps had went above freezing on Sunday and we were just about out of food to eat!  These 2 live for the free grocery store cookies and my shopping sanity does as well.

 They were cuh-razy kids in the store, they had clearly been locked up for days.

 This is what most of the shelves looked like!  There were no bananas, strawberries, ground beef, eggs…basically everything I needed.

 Monday came and Adam attempted to go to work.  After an hour and a half in traffic and not being 1/2 way to work he turned around.  Keep in mind he travels a busy, busy highway…this was 4 days post ice!  There were insane stories of people being stuck in traffic on Interstate 35 for 10-12 hours!!!!

Thank goodness for Pinterest!

We had lots of dance parties.  Here Cooper declared himself Pitbull and Laney was Kesha as they rocked out to Timber.  So inappropriate but oh so funny!

Are you still with me?  Believe it or not, I had more pictures to share!  Today is Tuesday and all the schools were cancelled again…what?  This weather is basically unheard of down here and no one has the right resources to react.  It finally went above freezing most of today and the majority of the ice on the roads has melted.  

Adios Ice!