"Though the Weather Outside is Frightful"

Never fear - we stayed warm and cozy during our first North Dakota blizzard! It helped that we didn't get as much snow as other spots. Saturday night the wind started blowing and the snow started falling. The wind huffed and it puffed but it couldn't blow down our house - thank goodness! It was kind of fun to be warm and cozy (and have power) inside and watch the wind whip around the 5-6 inches of snow we got outside. Late afternoon yesterday Jon and I bundled up to face the wind and the 35 - 45 below wind chills and scooped out the sidewalks and driveway. It wasn't too bad - just lots of drift piles to clear away. It seemed better to us to go out and do the major scooping while it was still light outside rather than to save it all for Monday morning and have to get up at 5 or 5:30 to get the big piles scooped away.

We spent the day watching some movies, playing on the Wii, reading books, and baking lots of cookies. All the girls worked on a batch (a SINGLE batch) of gingerbread cookies and later Jon even helped out making a triple batch of peanut blossoms. It was fun to tromp back out in the snow again later to deliver fresh baked cookies to a few of our neighbors last night too.

All in all, I would say it was a very good first blizzard experience for us up here! Although the snow piles are as big and deep now as they usually are at the end of January or early February.. . . which leads me to wondering. . . . where will we keep piling the snow by the time we reach the end of February?! :)