The Christensen's: Digging Out!!

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Digging Out!!

What a night we had! At about 4:30 a huge storm started blowing through the neighborhood. Our lights began to flicker until they went out for good at about 5pm. Paul had just left work and called to say he might be awhile because the roads were so bad. He had no CLUE how long "awhile" was really going to be. Tate and I started getting cold around 8pm, after heating up spaghettio's in the sink with hot water, we went upstairs to my bedroom and shut the door and lit a bunch of candles. Paul was still not home!! I ran a hot shower to heat things up a bit in the bedroom and Tate and I settled into bed. Paul ended up getting home at about 10:45pm!! His 15 mile drive ended up taking 5 1/2 hours. Still no power until sometime in the night. What an adventure. I guess I am headed to Cabela's to stock up on my emergency supplies.

This is what we woke up to this morning. Do you like what we've done with the stucco?

We got a nice snow drift on our porch!

All the houses in the neighborhood looked like they had been sandblasted white.

Our neighbors garage had a snow drift 4 feet high in front it. This was after they had cleared most of it off, but it was as high as the snowbank on the left. (notice Paul doesn't have a shovel)

4 comments:

Katie said...: I love that Paul doesn't have a shovel! Your new car looks so nice! I am so happy for you! Your house looks decorated so great and tate is so cute, what an awesome mom and wife you are Nat! katie; February 14, 2008 at 6:39 PM
amelia and crew said...: That's nutty! You just convinced me to invest in a gas stove.; February 14, 2008 at 9:42 PM
Missy said...: That's crazy...I can't believe it took Paul 5 1/2 hours to drive home!
I love the video with Tate playing with the snow...so cute!; February 19, 2008 at 7:13 AM
Cassandra said...: I love your house! Is that really your kitchen?? I'm officially jealous. Although, I'm definitely not jealous of the snow!; February 20, 2008 at 11:38 PM

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From the Mouth of Tate

To Paul "your my best friend, dad". (Paul got teary)

eating icecream and seeing it was melted said, "look mom chocolate juice."

Fell down on our friends grass, rubbed it and said, "This is great grass."

eyeing Gwen he says to me, "Tate take her head off?" not sure if he has grasped the concept she is real or not.

when I change his diaper he always asks for "feel better" (diaper cream)

He also lets me know when he wants changed by saying, "I wanna nice clean diaper."

Found a rock in the grass and threw it back into the rock landscaping and said, "he wanted to go home to his mommy."

me: "Tate, do you want to try and go potty on the toilet?

Tate: "NO WAY MOM, toilet is all gone."

Struggling and grunting in the backseat he finally says, "mom I can't do it... I can't grow bigger."

Tate: "mom come here."

me: "I have to feed Gwen first."

Tate: "no mom, pump."

We went through the Del Taco drive through, and Tate said, "Mom, is this a new McDonalds?" I think we need to cut back on the McDonalds.

me: "Tate, do you want to go watch the Flash Basketball players tonight?"

Tate: "No mom, we watch the Aggie guys."

Tate looked down at his diaper and then looked up at me and said, "I just pee peed on Elmo." (there are pictures of Sesame Street characters on his diapers)

Tate: "Mom, I'm the man"

me: "Tate we need to whisper"

Tate: (yelling) "No we're not whispering, we're YELLING."

Elaine: "Tate, are you going poop?"

Tate: "Yes"

Elaine: "Can you hold it?"

Tate: "In my hand?"

Tate: "Mom, go down the slide."

Me: "I'm too big."

Tate: "Well, grow down."

I was talking on the phone with my mom while Tate was in the bathtub and he said, "mom, put the phone in the water and grandma will get wet."

sitting on the potty, he went pee pee then said, "3 times!! I can't believe it." We have been potty training, and he was apparently counting how many times he had gone that day, and was pretty impressed with himself.

I went and sat down on the couch and Tate said,"Mom!!! Don't sit on the guys, they are watching me play football." Apparently he had some imaginary fans watching him as he kicked his football.

me: Tate, come eat your oatmeal.

Tate: I can't, I'm being sick right now.

I was walking down the stairs and I head Tate saying, "...and don't come of that stair until you stop crying." as I walked down the stairs he told me not to step on the (imaginary) kid that was in time out. I asked why he was in time out and Tate said, "because he put a coin in baby Gwen's mouth." YIKES

Tate (sitting on the potty): Mom, come look I did a big snake poo.

Tate (4) we had a little earthquake and he asked paul what it was. Paul said it was and earthquake, and Tate replied, "like when another planet runs into earth, that would be an earthquake.