I am a wife, a mom, a scout leader, a student, a teacher, a music leader, a reader, and a part time super hero. When do I have time you ask? Well, who really needs that much sleep?
First day wasn't so bad. The sleet was starting to stick, everything looked pretty. Here is the kids play table.
The sleet is starting to stick.
SC state flower -- yellow jasmine.
Around 2:30 the power went out. So... the kids had no electronics *snicker*. It was nice. They play with the marble run for hours.
Here's a branch that fell in our driveway. I pulled it out of the way thinking that was it. Little did I know what was to come. LOL!
Here's a shot of our neighborhood before things went all crazy. Our evening without power was nice. We had candles lit all over. We all had some type of flashlight. We had the fire going and we have a gas oven/stove so I still cooked pork tenderloin, couscous, and broccoli with melted cheese. Yum!! :) So, it wasn't too bad. Around 12:30/1am the power returned. YAY! Most of the night we were awakened from the crashing of limbs falling from the weight of the ice. The ones that were close to our house even shook the house. It was crazy! Ryanne woke a few times because she was scared.
This is our backyard.
Look how much ice is on this bush!!
Here's the whole bush.
Front yard. Limbs fell all around our oak tree.
Our neighborhood again.
Front yard from the road.
mailbox icicles
Then we went on a walk around the neighborhood, so the following are pictures of others' homes.
I thought this tree was pretty.
Trees down everywhere.
This one looked really bad. There was another home 3 houses down from us that had a limb going through the roof. They're trying to get a tarp on it right now.
I am trying a new "diet". I don't want to say diet because it's not a fad. I'm not cutting out any food groups out, I'm not starving myself and I'm not taking any types of medication. I'm excited! This is a quick synopsis of the program.
At my weight I get 4 green containers (vegetables), 3 purple containers (fruit), 4 red containers (protein), 3 yellow containers (carbohydrates), 1 blue container (healthy fats), 1 orange (seeds and nuts), and 4 tablespoons (oils and peanut butters) each day.
I have worked out 2 days now... my body hurts! haha!
Mondays - Total Body Cario Fix, Tuesdays - Upper Fix, Wednesdays - Lower Fix, Thursdays - Pilates Fix, Fridays - Cardio Fix, Saturdays - Dirty 30, and Sundays - Yoga Fix.
OK... now for my day today...
Breakfast: I had oatmeal, cooked apple with cinnamon and agave nectar with 2 poached eggs. (1 purple, 1 red, and 1 yellow)
Snack: I forgot to get a picture. So, I had half a banana with a tsp of peanut butter. (1 purple and 1 tsp)
Lunch: A baked chicken salad with a side of sweet potatoes. The lettuce was in the green container but I used 2 for this. :) (2 greens, 1 red, 1 yellow, 1 blue, and 1 orange)
Afternoon Snack: OK, I may have forgotten to take a picture before I started eating. 6 slices of turkey and an orange. (1 red and 1 purple)
Dinner: Steak cooked with olive oil, steamed carrots and baked potato (1 red, 1 green, 1 tsp, and 1 yellow)
Evening Snack: Cucumbers and herbal tea. Yum yum!
Water: I managed to drink 64 oz!!! I have had to urinate like crazy though. hehe! ;)
I have been full all day but am totally craving sugar right now. Ack!!! Hopefully I can make it through tomorrow and I'm really hoping the Stevia in the herbal tea will help to curb some of this sugar craving.
OK, in other places Storm Leon hit a lot harder, bringing temps down into the negatives. In South Carolina, it brought snow and ice which was enough to shut down the city for 48 hrs. Tuesday, most places closed early. Paul was sent home at noon. On Wednesday, the entire city was shut down. Stores, shops, schools and other places were all closed. Thursday (today) everything is on a delayed schedule. Paul's work was a 3 hr delay and schools are on a 2 hr delay. It has been fun and a great opportunity to play in the snow without having to worry about other responsibilities. :) Here are some pictures of our day. :)
Wednesday morning around 7am, walking out to see the snow! :)
This is how much snow we got.... my thumb and the snow on the trampoline. ;)
Arwen... not a fan of snow. She ran out, went potty and ran back to her bed where she licked her paws. They were just too cold.
Baker didn't seem to care too much. He pranced a little more in it than normal but no big deal.
Our house covered in snow.
Our neighborhood. The picket fence on the left side of the picture is our front yard.
Out our front window.
Ryanne doing school. She just looked so old in this picture and position.
Ryanne was assigned homework and insisted on doing it in front of the fire. haha!
The kids built their first snowman! A few years ago, the last time it snowed, Collin and Paul built one but this is the first time they did one together.
Collin, preparing a snowball for a snowball fight. It was an exciting brawl. I even got snow up my nose which was a very strange feeling.
Another shot of the front yard from our window.
The fire, where we hung out when we weren't playing in the snow. Paul kept it going all day and burned $10 worth of wood. LOL!
These are shots of the kids playing in the front yard. This one, Collin was hitting the limbs of the tree and making the powdery snow fall all around him.
The snow began melting as the temperatures hit mid 30s on Wednesday. Wednesday night the temperature dropped back down into the teens so Thursday morning there were lots of beautiful icicles everywhere.
Aren't they pretty?
They are so long... well, for SC. Paul has a story of a HUGE icicle when he lived in Canada, but for SC, these are quite large.
I thought this one was cool. The one forming diagonally..... there's a little twig and I guess one drop fell on it at a time, allowing it to form upward and diagonal instead of down. haha! I thought it was really cool.
It's hard to tell but I was trying to show the 1-1 1/2" of ice under the snow on the roof. Quite crazy. I guess our roof is well insulated right now. ;)
OK, Paul thinks I'm nuts but I never realized this. In fake snow, they have glitter. I just always thought that was to make it more fun. But... what this South Carolina girl never knew was that real snow glitters too!!! :) So, I tried to catch the beautiful glittering that was happening in the sun.
The carport drain is just at the top of this post. So, as snow melted and dripped down this drain, it froze. The entire post is frozen along with the base of the little tree growing beside it. So funny!
