Day 7 "Deep Freeze Storm Seige 2008"

We are into day seven of the ever dramatic "Deep Freeze 08". Apparently the biggest part of this storm has not yet hit. It is snowing at the moment and we've gotten an inch or two more since this started, but the REAL snow should be starting in a couple of hours. Overnight the lovely fluffy stuff will become a hardened shell as freezing rain falls to the ground, making our winter wonderland a crunchy, hard to walk through mess. But it will still be beautiful, especially if you don't HAVE to walk through it! The warnings are possibly power outages due to ice accumulation, so Richard lit the pilot in the fireplace, so we can have a heat source and we gathered all the candles, lanterns and flashlights into one place for easy access. I think we are ready! The freeze should last into Monday where hopefully we will begin to thaw out some for Christmas.

Richard and Jake are venturing out this morning. They are delivering fliers for the Christmas Tree pick up next weekend. Every year the scouts go out the two weekends after Christmas to pick up Christmas Trees as a fund raiser for scout camp in the summer. Richard will be in Rover, so I am sure they will be fine, but I would really rather have them safe and warm indoors. Hopefully they will only be out a couple of hours.

Yesterday afternoon there was a big break in the weather so we headed out to do some shopping with the kids. We went to Fred Meyer, its a big store so splitting up is easier to do. Richard took the girls shopping and I took the boys. Joseph was buying for Adrienne and he got her a make up kit and something else, I will not mention at this time. The reason I am not worried about Adrienne learning about the make up is a pretty funny story. At the checkout I explained to Joseph that he needed to keep his gift to Adrienne a secret. He said ok but when we met up with Richard and the girls, he blabbed. Well Jake was very upset by this so we reminded Joseph not to tell Adrienne her gift or she would not be surprised on Christmas morning. In the car he started chanting, "Adrienne, you got makeup, Adrienne, you got makeup...." over and over again in a very sing song voice. Richard told Joseph to zip it and Joseph replied, "I can't zip it!" and the chant started again. Adrienne tells us that when Richard told him to zip it, he tried with all his might to zip up his coat, but could not. It was pretty funny timing!

We then did the grocery shopping, but apparently the break in weather had everyone thinking the same thing! The lines for every register(and they were ALL open, all 18 of them) had at least 6 people standing in them. And the ailes were jammed full of people, but we finally managed to finish the shopping and get out. Huge flakes were starting to fall so we turned on Christmas music for the ride home. A crazy yet fun way to spend a Saturday evening with the family!