Twihards and Snopocalypse (Part 1 and 2)

My sister went to India is January and Brandon and I wanted to visit her when she got back. So we made plans to see her last weekend (February 5th). When we found out that there was going to be a HUGE storm in our area that weekend, we were glad we were heading out of town. So we drove up to New York on Friday before the big storm hit.

That night we made lasagna and played Twilight Scene It. We invited our friend Mona to come play with us and she thought she would dominate the game. Little did she know that my sister is a Twihard. Shilo can pretty much quote the whole movie (and by pretty much, I mean she can), give you first AND last names of minor characters and tell you which direction Victoria led the humans.  Yeah. She is that good. And I think she secretly works for Stephanie Meyers and her job is to go on every Twilight related website and read the whole thing. No joke. So, needless to say, she dominated the game. It was fun though…and at times, embarrassing.

The next day it snowed a little and we went out shopping.

That night my sister had a singles activity at her church. Brandon and I went to help out and we also “chaperoned”. Haha, not really, but other than the missionaries we were the only married people there. So it was kinda funny. We played this awesome game where we had tons of balloons and a volleyball net. There were two teams and the goal is to throw the balloons on the other side of the net and the team with the least amount of balloons on their side, wins! It was a lot more tiring that it sounds. My team won, of course. As they did in volleyball too. I act as if it was my experience and athleticism that helped us win, but we all know that’s not true. I just got lucky.

The next morning we went to church with my sister and I forgot to pack church shoes and socks for Brandon and this is what he ended up looking like

And this is a pic of my sister and me

After we got back from church, we ate lunch and then headed home. Little did we know the “damage” that the snow caused in Maryland and Virginia. We were making good time until the freeway we wanted to take was closed. Yeah. closed. So we had to take side streets…after it had snowed about 24 inches. The side streets were not plowed at all. I honestly thought that I would die in a cold, snow grave in Podunk Maryland. After 7 hours, we finally made it home. It was ridiculous. Here is what we came home to

We ventured out on Monday and I slipped and fell in our parking lot. I hit my tailbone pretty hard, bruised my elbow and strained my neck. It was crazy. Luckily I went into work yesterday and my boss fixed me right up.

So that brings us to today. It is blizzard like weather out here. Our office was closed and school is closed all week. They are calling this round two of the storm. It is pretty windy so it does look like a white out.

Anyway, here I will sit all day watching the snow. I just pray the power doesn’t go out. Like my dad said “If you can make it through this winter, you can make it through any winter out there.” So true.