We made it!

After driving for 15 hours (leaving at 5am) and driving through a blizzard going only 20-25mph for the last 3 hours of the drive and with Madisyn just about going insane, we finally made it to Portland! We had tried to leave early enough to get to Portland before the storm did, but we didn't quite make it. It made for a very interesting drive though, for us at least. Good thing the kids were oblivious to the fact that we couldn't see the road for the last part of the trip. Ignorance is bliss, right? We did make it to Portland before all the freezing rain hit, which was very lucky.

We went out the next day (yesterday) to check out the snow and go sledding with the cousins. The snow was covered with a layer of ice which made it real slick but made it really fun to walk in. Every step we took sounded like glass breaking, and Parker thought that was really cool. He didn't really care about sledding, he just wanted to keep walking in the snow. But we had fun and can't wait to go out in the snow again. It is still snowing here, so we'll probably have a white Christmas and we'll get to go sledding a lot more.

Parker, cousin Clara, & cousin Taya getting pulled on the sled

Parker & cousin Porter

Paul (Ben's brother) & Ben going down the hill

Paul pulling Parker & Porter, with Clara & Taya running along

Taya & Porter's turn on the sled