Keeping Warm and Wind Storm Update

Our weather lately has been very chilly.  It’s dropped into the low 30’s at night.  Brrr!  Above is a photo of the kids keeping warm in their jammies.

A little update from the wind storm last week.  It appears our neighborhood of Brigden Ranch was one of the harder hit areas.  We lost 80 trees and most of them were between 70 – 110 years old.  The streets are still cluttered with tree debris.  Every house has a huge pile in front making it difficult to travel in a car.  I included a few more photos below.

This is a tree from our park.  I hope to have more park photos to share soon

This is from my friend Emily.  A huge tree fell on top of her neighbor’s Ford Explorer and crushed it.  That is black object underneath the tree.

This is a small glimpse of what the roads look. 

This is a tree that fell in another friends yard.  That is their 4 year old daughter sitting on the tree so you can tell the size.  Luckily it did not hit their house.

A Snowy Night at the Mall

Tonight we went to our mall for their Snowy Nights.  (They have a new part of the mall that is all outside.) First we took a train ride around the shops and tree.  Then the kids ran around in the (soap) snow.  It actually looked like real snow falling from the sky.  Andrew was really excited.  Wait until he sees the real stuff. 

On the cute train

Piper wanted to ride in the caboose

Andrew stood and looked out the whole time

This is Andrew’s expression as soon as it started to snow.  He was so excited!

It’s snowing!

Running through the snow