The top photo shows what it looked like out our entry way door (pretty much) last Sunday - just a little less green with siding on the garage. The bottom photo is what it looked like out the same door this morning, before Steve shoveled us out.
This is a photo out of our garage before Steve cleared snow this morning. Both the car and the truck were cleared off Saturday evening before we went to bed - and here they are, only hours later, very snow covered! Notice the snow piled up where it was next to the closed garage door - Steve said it was easily a foot deep there.Here's the path from our house down to the garage and driveway. It was a bit challenging to get Ella NOT to play in the snow on our way to the car this morning. But she did manage to do so.
Since it's been so snowy here, we've been staying inside doing
"fun" inside stuff - recovering from colds, mostly. But Ella has also learned a new game. Here she is in her very first (and exciting) round of UNO. She's pretty good at matching the colors. We're still working on the numbers.Ella and Elisabeth got to wear their "wintery" dresses to church this morning, in honor of our snow. They are our "little snow princesses" - and we thought you'd enjoy a chance to see them in their winter finery.
Ella also got to try her first meringue this evening, as Steve had some egg whites left over from making a pound cake (see photo) and decided to make meringues. 
It was a new experience for all of us, as we'd never made them before (though Steve and I had both eaten them before, and I hadn't been a huge fan). However, these were extremely tasty - and I decided that he could definitely make them again! Now, just to make some more pound cakes so we have extra egg whites that need to be used...
Right good post, Rachel. Now who wants a little winter vacation? We've got a vacancy in the snow shoveling chalet. Snow shoveling pay (aside from the joys of shoveling) is pound cake, meringues, and seeing Ella and Elizabeth in person.
ReplyDeleteRight good post, indeed! On the weather map, the whole U.P. is white, and now I know why! Great pictures, for perspective, and the girls are darling!
ReplyDeletePicture 1 (w/both girls) Elisabeth: "I'm tellin' ya, it ain't easy being the little sister here, and having two mothers!"
Picture 2 Elisabeth: "Alright! Looks like I'm gonna make my great escape!"
Picture 3 Elisabeth: "Foiled again! See what I mean? It's like I told ya, it's really tough being the little sister, and having two mother hens!"
Picture 4 Elisabeth: "Look! She's even got me in a vice hold! Enough already!!"
Picture 5 Elisabeth: "And there she sits, looking quite innocent, eating meringues! I can see what my life is gonna be like."
Great pictures, thank you. We only have a couple of inches of snow here, and no little girls unless you count Nikki and Twila. No garage either.
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