More Snow Pictures

On day 2 of being cooped up in the house, Joel and I decided to venture out...on foot.  We got out and cleaned the snow off of the cars, and walked down our long hill to the road (about a half mile one way) to see what life looked like out in the world. 

The main road has one lane cleared (as far as we could see), but our driveway leaving the apartment complex (going downhill the whole way) is still very slushy/icy.  GDOT still says to stay off of the road.  So here we are back inside after playing for about an hour and a half. 

We are very thankful to still have power, and that we are able to enjoy these snow days at home.  There are a lot of people in the Atlanta area stranded at the airport, the greyhound bus depot, and even out on the interstate.  So, we are very thankful to be at home during this crazy weather!

Here are some more pictures...beyond our back porch view :)

Abbi making a snow angel (There is a layer of ice on top of the snow now, so we both had to chop through the snow with our arms and legs to be able to make these!)

 Abbi's snow angel...look closely :)

Joel making a snow angel

Joel's snow angel

 Abbi all bundled up

Joel all bundled up

View of snow across the lake

View across the lake (different angle)

View of parking lot (a few brave people have ventured out as you can see from the tracks)

Joel holding a sheet of ice and snow that came off of the car. 

This was the buildup of snow and ice on top of the car.  (Before)

We made a tunnel on top of the car....The top of the tunnel is a layer of ice.  We scooped out all of the soft snow that was underneath.  (After - see picture above)

View looking downhill (down our long driveway to the main road)

View looking back up the hill

Snow in 2011

Joel and I are enjoying our snow day today.  Thankfully, we were both able to stay home today due to school closings.  We are hoping that it stays as snow, and we don't lose power. 

 Here are a few pictures to document:

Boots in the snow...this is on the porch (I didn't make it off the porch :))

View of the cars in the parking lot

View of our side yard...we got about 4-5 inches of snow.  Joel loves to look at the blanket of snow!

Hope everyone is having a warm and safe day!

Thanksgiving

Joel and I just got home from our trip to MS for Thanksgiving.  We were very excited to see everyone and spend some time with our family.  We are more aware each day how much God has blessed us with our families, and we are very thankful for each and every member.

Here are some pictures so you can see how much fun we had:

 Uncle Joel & Avi Grace

 Avi giving Sally Sharp kisses

 This is one of the good shots I got of Avi while I was trying to coax her to smile for a picture!  She wasn't thrilled to be taking pictures :)

Uncle Joel & Sally Sharp

Sally Sharp's pretty smile

 Harris is so tall!

 Graham, Joel, Sanders, & Nathan

 Wynn, Sanders, Rebekah

 (Notice Wynn's funny face)

Rebekah & Abbi

 After all of our Thanksgiving fun, Rebekah was worn out.  She found her a spot in the den and curled up and went to sleep! 

As you can tell we had a great time with family and friends this Thanksgiving.  On Tuesday evening before we left for MS, Joel and I got to enjoy a Mannheim Steamroller concert.  Joel took me out to dinner before the concert, and we had a great time on our date.  Here we are all dressed up:

I hope you had a great Thanksgiving too!

MSU Fotball

Last weekend while Joel and I were home, we got to partake in the first MSU football game of the season.  Pictures to document the fun:

The band (view from where we were sitting)

Band spelling out STATE 

Bully as he comes out onto the field!

Flyover during pregame

Jumbotron - with a view of the stadium

One side of the stadium from the outside

Vacation

Joel and I took off last Monday (a week ago) headed to Destin to meet up with my family. We were there for several days, and we really enjoyed the beach, good food, and great family time.

This is the second time that my family has taken a summer trip to the beach. Last year I saw people parasailing and thought it looked like a lot of fun, but I did not get around to doing it (plus I would have had to go by myself.) This year Joel came along to the beach with me. I mentioned how fun it would be to parasail the first day we were there. My sister's decided that would be the perfect birthday present for me (they were right!). So on Thursday morning Joel and I headed off to get on the boat.

Here are some pictures to prove that we did it :) :

Us leaving the boat...
Starting to get higher...in the one on the right you can see how far away we got from the boat. The total length of rope was 800 ft.

Finally coming back to the boat...as they brought us back in we got dunked in the water to about waist level.

Eventually we got all the way back to the boat. It was a lot of fun...we could see so far in every direction when we were all the way up in the air.


The last night that Joel and I were there the whole crew headed down to the beach to take pictures. Here are a couple of shots that we got:

How cute is she?

Here is one of Maddi...how grown up is she getting!He is getting so handsome! About to start 8th grade...hard to believe!


We got them to pose together!
And finally, Joel was nice enough to pose with me for a picture or two :)