Winter Wonder-pond??

On Saturday ...out of the blue..it started to snow like crazy! I was so excited! The girls and I immediatly got bundled up!Hana really enjoyed eating it...this was before the snow really came down.


Mak and Hana played in the house more with the snow then they did all summer!!! It was their 'cabin.'
One of my favorite parts of our backyard is our huge trees! This is our Great Leaning Apple Tree!!!This is the Huge Evergreen...I think it might be a Spruce tree..I'm not really sure..but it is really Amazing and Big and Beautiful!!
Cheese!!! In the Backgound you can see the wonderful new fence that George (our neighbor) and Dj almost have finished. They worked on it all morning before the snow hit!!

So Srange that my roses were still blooming out in the backyard...I cut this guy...figured it was prettier inside..and I didn't want to let it get Frozen!!So the snow came on Saturday...by Sunday morning it was raining and it rained all day Sunday..through the night..and all day Monday...the temp went from about 29 degrees to a record 59 degrees in less than 24 hrs. As a result we had major flooding in our area. I tried to go to Safeway for some milk and almost coudln't make it home because we litteraly had a river going accross our road! It as a scary Day!!!

This is a picture (thanks King5news.com) of Totem lake area..where are girls go to their doctor...totally flooded!

I wanted to take some pictures of the nearby apt. complex...but I was busy trying to get home safe! They had completely roped it off...there was water..worse than the picture above...of water up to peoples car windows!!! We suffered little damage. My back hurts from digging trenches to try to keep the water away from our house...and we have some warping on our hardwoods do to some water seeping in! Our garage had a little water in it too...not even sure where it came from..but all in all we are in good shape compared to most! We have several friends who spent the day pumping out basements and who are now currently cleaning up the aftermath of this storm!!

Dj and I always make fun of the news because here in Seattle ..anything can and does happen weather wise. When the news breaks in saying 'storm watch 2007!' we rarely take it seriously! I think we might take it a little more seriously next time!