Pictures From the Ice Storm

For some reason Photobucket doesn't like me. You'll have to click on the pictures to get the full picture. It's cutting most of them off.


Here are some of the pictures I took from the recent ice storm.

These are from around our house. If you go to the "Winter Storm" post below you can compare some of the pictures.

The above 2 are of the huge Blue Spruce tree we have beside the house. I'm surprised it didn't break any of the branches with the amount of ice it had on them.

This is the Japanese Maple tree.

Just a picture of the front yard. The cable hanging down is the cable/internet line that snapped off the pole.

The spruce tree branch is one with Tom's car. (Same cable line as noted above.) LOL That branch had to be cut from the tree.

Pictures from my parent's house.

Behind my parent's house. The top half of the cedar trees snapped off. We're hoping it didn't bend the back end of the tractor's trailer.

Blackberry vines covered in ice.

The huge tree branch barely missed the corner of the roof.

I just like the icicles hanging from the front.

Ice covering a burning bush.

Just to give you an idea of how much ice we had. The porch rail is about an inch thick. Tom had up to 4 inches of ice on his car.

I'm Finally Back

So we've been without cable for about a week thanks to the ice storm that hit. We were lucky and were without power for 2 days, but my parents just got power back on Sunday. I have lots of pictures from around our house and my parents house of the damage the ice did and some "pretty" pictures of the ice. We were lucky that my parents had a gas fireplace, especially with the little ones. It made me realize one thing. We weren't as prepared as we should have been! But as long as we learn from it and that we are all well, that's the important part.

On a good note, Victoria cut her first tooth yesterday. She had been "working" on it and cranky for the past week or so. She also has another one right beside it coming in so I expect her to be cranky for a lil while longer.

I got the kitchen painted. I've only had the paint sitting around for about a month! LOL Not sure how I'm gonna like the blue color, but I'm sure when we get everything the way we want it that it will look good.

Jumble of Randomness

Ok so I am just gonna clump all my thoughts into one post.

1) Tom was finally able to find a Wii Fit and surprised me yesterday with it! He does love me. LOL So I got it out today and I must say I am sore, but it was fun. I spent 47 mins on it and it didn't seem that long! I love to hula (though I'm sure I look ridiculous!). I am so out of shape!

2) We almost have the play/family/sitting room done (yes it's one room). I just need to get my console radio from my uncle's house (he bought my nana's house) and sort toys into toyboxs. I plan on using the plastic totes we used to move with and customizing them for each kiddo.

3) I need to find curtains for our bedroom. We are so picky when it comes to patterns it isn't funny. LOL We also will have to then get a paint color that will look good with it. That is one bonus for not living on post. I like that I can paint the walls and not have to worry about repainting before I move out!

4) We are also going to re-tile part of the bathrooms and get new cabinets. Take the border down in the kitchen/dining room and paint. Paint the living room and hang curtains. Get rugs. All at the same time trying to stay under budget (which is hard). Everything is getting put on a priority list and we get things as we get the money for it (lol which will probably take at least a year if not more to get everything done that we want done...we are also doing alot of it ourselves to save on labor costs).

5) Victoria is wanting to sit up more now! She actually fusses if I don't hold her in an upright sitting position (unless she is going to sleep). She is growing so much! I'm glad that Tom is here to see it. He missed alot with Katheryn.