**The Island's First Snow**

So far, Isaac and I are surviving the big "Blizzard of '09"! It started to snow around 9pm last night, and was dropping a little over an inch an hour! It was so windy it kept waking Isaac up, poor little guy. . .

Our power went out for about 5 hours which made changing diapers a bit more difficult than usual, but we made it work! We got up around 8:30-9:00am, and found that our yard was under a thick blanket of snow! We had a rather hard time seeing out of the windows at first.

My brother, sister in law, and nephew came to our rescue a little later on, since I don't have a 4WD car, I'd be pretty much stuck here. They couldn't quite make it up the driveway at first. A huge tree fell completely across it. Which of course was no match for my brother.

I didn't even know they were here, until I heard someone shoveling out my front walkway. Thank goodness they did that, because with Michael away, I don't think I would have been able to!

We all bundled up the baby, I think he had five or six layers on him, not including hat(s)! And then we set out for the golf course! Poor Jacob tried walking through to the middle of the green, and found a snow-filled sand trap, or maybe IT found him!

Ean, Melissa and I trudged on to the next tee, and slid down the hill a few times, which was hilarious in itself, I must say.

By the end of our expedition, Jacob had an icy brow, Ean an icy beard, and little Isaac was snuggling into my coat trying to hibernate!