Where we've been.....

In case you missed the news, we had quite the ice storm here last week. It's amazing to see these pictures right now, since today it was in the 60s!! We had a pretty eventful week.....Monday all the schools dismissed early and we met Matt at home around 2:00. By bedtime the freezing rain was coming down pretty good. When we got up Tuesday morning, it was STILL coming down and everything around us was icy. Our lights started to flicker and around 4:30 Tuesday afternoon they went out.....just as Harrison was waking up from his nap. Great timing since it's dark around 5:30. :) We managed to keep the kids occupied for a few hours, but by 7:30 they were bored out of their minds.....so we all went to bed, in our bed. Needless to say it was probably the WORST night of sleep I've ever had. And, by the time we got up the next morning, our house was a chilling 50 degrees and falling. So, we headed out to brave the elements (the rain had stopped and we just were having snow now) to find somewhere warm for breakfast. We managed to find somewhere open to eat, then spent a couple of hours bumming around Target where they had power and heat!!! We decided that we'd just spend the $$$ on a hotel.....and avoid pneumonia.......and after landing what was probably the LAST hotel room in NWA we headed home to pack. As I zipped up the suitcase, of course, the power came ON!!! That was probably around noon. So, we survived the ice storm of 2009. :) Here are some pictures that I took from our back porch. The ponds were frozen SOLID. It looks like snow, but it's really about 2 inches of ice with about a half inch of snow on top. It last until Saturday and now it just pretty much looks like a war zone here with all the trees down.