Snow, Snow and MORE Snow

The end of February and beginning of March have been super cold and full of snow.  It really just dumped on us!
The first time it snowed CJ had some snow days to spend with us so we took advantage of it and went to play!

That week was full of snow and unfortunately ended up freezing our drain pipe from our furnace and we had no heat through out the house. I had to get creative and used our oven all day to keep us warm and then thankfully a family in our Church ward let us borrow their space heater and electric blanket to get us through the night.  Maintenance came 5 hours after I called it in and put a heater in with the furnace to help thaw pipes and we finally got heat 33 hours later. We never called to let them know it was back on and thought the heater would come in handy with the next storm coming. We had heat the whole time!

And then came round 2 and 3 in the same week! 

My dogs thought they were snow dogs, they loved being outside. If you looked at the six backyards in our row the first four were nice and clean snow that glistened in the barely there sun. Then you look at ours and our neighbors and you can tell we have dogs and that they played hard! 

We have a few Cardinals that live in the trees in our front yard. This male had been around all week and after the last thick snow he was still hanging out around the trees. Beautiful bright red!