The Great Ice Storm of 2013

We had a pretty big ice storm that hit our area last week and we are STILL waiting for all of the ice to melt. It threw these parts quite in a tail spin and everything was pretty much shut down.  No school, no going into the office for Brad since he's able to work from home, no going out and about.  We had about four days straight of just staying at our house.  We baked and decorated gingerbread men, we did arts and crafts, we put the boys in their ski bibs and let them play outside for a good amount of time...which they loved.  We watched movies and played board games.  I surprisingly didn't get too much of cabin fever.  We really were able to enjoy the iced in time together, which was really a miracle I think.  Very lucky we kept power the entire time so we were able to stay warm (and sane).  The most upsetting part of the ice storm for us, was losing our big tree out front.  I don't recommend starting your day looking out the window and discovering your tree is caput.  Not at all.  Apparently with the amount of ice McKinney had with the combination of the leaves not having fallen off the trees yet = a ton of extra weight, causing the trees to...timberrrrrr!  A lot of McKinney got hit pretty badly.  Our neighborhood looks like a tornado tore through it with downed trees everywhere.  It is a huge mess.  And a huge headache.  And will cost a good amount to get rid of the tree completely and replace it.  *sigh*

This shot is of our neighbor's house.  Half their tree is in our yard now.   (the rest are of our house)