The Great Snow Storm of 2014

I have a feeling that what we experienced last weekend will be talked about for years.  The weather experts are calling it Winter Storm Ion.  The past few years and even a few weeks ago, we have gotten a lot of rain or ice with a dusting of snow.  This time, however, it was all snow.  That is approximately 10 inches of snow fell last Sunday.  To top that off, there are record low temperatures and crazy strong winds.  When we woke up Monday morning it was -10 degrees with wind chills around -25.  The high Monday was -2 degrees.  Needless to say, the kids daycare was closed and Billy and I worked from home that day.
 

The unfortunate part about the temperatures is that we couldn't get the kids out to enjoy the snow.  Audrey wanted to go sledding so badly too.  I might have consider it except that Barrett was diagnosed with an ear infection last Saturday morning, and since he is already on antibiotics, I figure we need to focus on keeping everyone warm and healty.  So, instead of building snow people and sledding while we were snowed in Sunday and Monday, we built lego masterpieces, played in the castle tent, watched movies, and just acted silly. By Tuesday, we were all getting a little cabin fever and were ready to get out of the house.  I left for Kansas City Tuesday and just got back yesterday, so I was glad for the time at home with my children.  Here are some photographic highlights of how we endured the storm and fought of cabin fever.