Our Winter Snow Storms

So in the last month or two, Oklahoma was hit with some pretty fun snow storms. The first day of the first one was admittedly bad (there was a lot of snow and high, cold winds), but we were surprised to see how Stillwater shutdown due to the snow. This is probably because we moved from Rexburg, Idaho, where there is snow most of the year - or at least there is a lot of it in the winter. We had heard that Walmart was extremely busy the day before the expected snow storm, and when we went two days later, we saw proof of it. It made us laugh a little, but at least the people were trying to be prepared. Here are some pictures of what our Super Walmart looked like.

Only the more expensive brands of bread were left.

The bottled water area was hit hard.

Only two cartons of eggs were left. Oh, and the black pepper that is randomly kept in the middle of the egg section. In case you want chilled black pepper, I guess.

It was too cold for Allie to go out in the snow the first couple days, mostly because of the wind. But when we did take her out, she loved it. She seemed to love the crunching sound beneath her feet, and was just in awe of it. Here are some pictures of one of our outings to get the mail. The may be from after the second snow storm, which didn't bring as much snow. I don't remember. And for some reason, she wanted to bring her toy ice cream cone out with her. Silly girl. I guess she already knows that ice cream is good anytime

We tried to get Allie to walk in tire tracks, where the snow wasn't as deep. She insisted on walking where the snow was deeper, and she kept trying to pull us into the deeper snow. Here's a short video of her walking in the snow. You can see how she tries to step past the tire tracks in order to step in the deeper snow.

This picture doesn't do justice to beauty of the red sky that was present the morning of the second snow storm. I couldn't help but think: "Red sky in morning, sailors take warning," especially since we knew we were expecting a storm.