It was a morning like any other...
We had heard about an ice storm coming, but lots of weather warnings don't come to fruition around here. (Here is Easton picking out some marshmallows from his Lucky Charms)
The trees had all frozen over and the weight of that broke a lot of the branches off
Blaine and I bundled up and went in the backyard to assess the damage (and see the branches weighing down our power lines) and this cute boy kept watch from inside
That fell into our yard from the neighbors, but only broke one plank of our fence
After sitting in the house and watching the temperature drop all day, we went to the mall to buy a Christmas gift and enjoy a fancy dinner at the food court. New family tradition? ;)
Easton even experienced his first ride on the toy car
Blaine and I were in the kitchen and realized he didn't know where Easton was and the house was all dark. So Blaine took a lantern and took off down the hall calling to him. I was a little behind him, but I grabbed a lantern and started calling to him, too. After I passed through the living room I heard a noise in the curtains and saw this.
HE IS SO FUNNY!!! He likes to play peek-a-boo/hide-and-seek with Jake in the curtains. He wasn't even scared of the dark! But he also didn't answer when we called to him... Thats commitment. We better teach him a safe word or something ;)
Unfortunately, this was the same day as the OU-OSU game. We were planning on going to Gameday in Stillwater that morning, but the weather put a stop to that. We watched the first half of the game at our neighbors house and the second half on Blaine's phone, with all 4 of us cuddled up on the bed
The next morning we went for a drive to enjoy the heater and to look at damage in surrounding neighborhoods. It looked like our area got hit the worst from what we saw. We were without power for TWO days! The first night it was pretty easy to have a good attitude and make the best of our indoor family campout, but after that... we struggled...
We bought some lofthouse cookies that night and
SOMEBODY got into them when we weren't looking
Fortunately, it came back on Monday morning... and we were SO grateful.
Poor Blaine, though, still hasn't had time to take care of all our branches
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