January 2011 Rolls in with a White Coat!

We have enjoyed the Holidays.  Even though two children where sick on Christmas Eve and the other in the ER on Christmas Night, as the snow fell.  We have really enjoyed the snow!  I love snow!!  I have always loved snow!!  Ice not so much.  Then we had all these wonderful news reports of the inches of snow we where to get on Jan 9 and 10th.  It was beautiful to wake up to on Monday morning!!  Everything covered in white.  I enjoy taken pictures of all the beauty that God creates.  Then Tim and I had this decision to make.  DO we stay home all day Monday and Monday night and hope the power does not go out, or do we go to my parents where we would have heat even if the power went out.  Tim and I have worked for days to get our gas logs to start and work, but we made no progress and did not want to be in a home with three children and freezing.  So we choose to go.  Thankfully no power lose as of yet.  But then today we had to try to make it back home in the snow, oh and might I add ICE on the roads.  After much debate about even driving, we headed home with an escort to our door.:)  We did great all the way at 20 mph.  The roads where awful but God was guiding us.  Then we reached our wonderful concrete drive way, and let me add up hill!!!  Where after 5 attempts and smelling burning rubber, we where not making it up the hill.  Then my dad and Tim racked and broke up paths of ice off the driveway.  As they where sliding down hill while trying to scrub up the ice.  It was a site to see!!! :)   Then a very peace drive up the hill and into the garage safe and sound.  We made it home.  Still plenty of snow to build a snow castle tomorrow!!!  Welcome to a Winter to Remember in South Carolina!!