Snowtober!

Happy Birthday to me!  A foot of snow and a five day power outage!  who could ask for anything more?!  well the kids were quite happy with the results.. at least for two days before it melted.

Looks pretty, aside from all the branches we lost

Rob cuts the branches away that were lying on our power lines.

And we thought it was just sand that Cole liked to be upside down in, guess we were wrong!

Caden was the happiest boy in the world!

We are even raising helpers!  And they actually do a pretty good job!

Snowballs.... sure to cause a fight, and not just with snowballs.

Cole having a small meltdown after getting hit from one of Caden's "snow bombs"

Whee!! This Pooh Walker has seen better days, but they still use it!

Cora trying to keep up with Charlotte on the snowbank, and not liking the trudge.

Riding in from the horizon, Rob had gone on a gas run for the generator... Most of the stations had no power, the ones that did had a long line... Thankfully we weren't yet on 'E' so he went back out later once some of the stations had regained  power.

We had to build a bridge over the puddle at the bottom of the driveway because it was a very popular hang out and they were all going to go home with wet boots!  I should mention part of the puddle was due to the fact that we had to drain our pool because it was over flowing from the snow and all the rain we had had previously!  Whoops! 

Snowtober.. pretty fun in the long run!  Thank goodness for the generator, it's really earned it's keep :)  Who knew we could build snow forts in October?!