As most of you are aware, we had quite a winter storm here over the past week. It all started Monday night and people are still dealing with the aftermath 8 days later. At first it was fun. These pictures are from Tuesday morning. There was quite a bit of snow on the ground and it was actually beginning to sleet with some freezing rain. This made for good sledding. We went to a local church that has a big hill and took the kids for some fun.
Tracy and Benjamin joined us also. Here's Mommy and Ethan getting ready to go down the hill.
Emma slept for about the first half hour and then woke up and got inside Mommy's coat. She even went down the hill inside the coat. She didn't really know what to think.
Ethan said he was done sledding but Nana decided otherwise and took him down with her. He had a good time also.
Tuesday night the weather got alot worse and many people lost their power, including us. We lost power at about 4:00 am and when Daddy called it in, there were 15,000 people without power. By morning the number was 75,000. Wednesday evening, there were over 100,000 people and that's all the recording would say. The news gave the official estimate of over 250,000 people lost power during the storm. Today, 8 days later, there are still around 50,000 people. Wednesday evening when we heard that it could be 7-10 days before we got power back we started to make calls to find a hotel room. There were none within 100 miles that had power and rooms. After making several calls, Daddy decided that it would be fun to go up to Ohio to Great Wolf Lodge. That was a very good decision. We stayed Wednesday night through Saturday. It was a little mini vacation. Nana and Grandpa Greg went with us and so did Mamaw Ann, Garrett, and Sean. These pictures are all from the vacation. We had a blast.
Ethan loved going down the slides. There were a lot of big slides and Ethan could go down all of them except one.
Daddy, Ethan, and Trystan up on the water playground.
Ethan going down the body slide, all by himself.
Ethan and Emma playing in the little fountain.
Mommy likes this picture because you can start to see Emma's curls.
This was Emma's favorite thing. She found a little fountain that she could sit down and play with.
Grandpa Greg and Garrett goofing around.
Trystan doing the obstacle course.
Ethan and Benjamin playing in the kids play area.
Nana and Emma playing in the water.
Tracy's oldest son Tyler and his friend TJ at the water park.
Ethan and Benjamin in the kiddie hot tub. That was Ethan's favorite thing.
I think that Tracy liked the kiddie hot tub the best also.
Nana with Emma and Ethan in the kiddie hot tub.
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