Iced In (Dec 6, 2013)

At the beginning of December, we had a pretty severe ice storm here in Dallas!  We lost power for almost an entire day.  It's a good thing the kids like to read!

It's funny because it doesn't look that bad, but the stuff that looks like snow is actually ice.  We had a 2 inch thick sheet of ice covering our ENTIRE van!  Ice scrapers didn't work, Jason had to chip it all off the doors to get in and run the car for about 20 minutes before he could even start chipping away at the rest of it.

The nice thing about a power outage because of a freeze: Just turn the back deck into your refrigerator!

There was some fort building...

...And some plant freezing.  Almost like a scene out of frozen.  It took almost a week before this grass plant (which had frozen from a broken pipe that sprayed it for a few hours) thawed out!