We have had some spectacular sunsets as of late but this mornings sunrise is the most amazing I have seen in a long time. The last couple of nights have been different, albeit interesting, for sunsets. As seen from our deck.

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And then this morning Angela woke me about 5:30am and said you have to look outside at the orange sky. Through the window it looked like the sky was on fire, everything outside was orange from the rising sun reflecting off the approaching storm clouds. It was pure awesome. The power went out a few times and Owen and Brandon kept asking us to turn the lights back on. ha ha

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Of course it is still snowing, it is winter after all and we need the snow to make our igloos! I am a little tired after yet another weekend of lots of snow, if you recall last weekend we had a storm as well which you can read about here. My spirits are high, maybe not quite as high as the snow banks, but aside from the bitter cold (-30C) it is actually not that bad and its kind of funny. I am actually hoping the that snow in our backyard gets higher than our fence which is 4 feet tall. We are maybe 8 inches away but apparently it is supposed to get warm this week, around 0C. Hmm.

Anyway I wanted to get a picture of me all bundled up and excited just heading out to shovel the champange powder can’t you just see the excitement of my expression, ok well I was smiling but you can’t see it =)

After I was done shovelling our Driveway and deck I was a little gassed, wet and sweaty, notice the water dripping off my nose. But I did conquer the savage snow storm, at least this round anyway.

Once I towelled off I went to help the boys eat supper. They were watching How to Train Your Dragon, which is an awesome movie, and it was just finishing up. They both wanted to show me their Dragon faces and so I grabbed the camera. The main Dragon in the movie is named Toothless so I feel these names are fitting.

I present to you a Carrott Tooth and Goofy Tooth Dragon.

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Wow, what a storm we have been having for the last 2 days! The snow banks are close to 6 feet high where we have been piling it all. Everyone is getting stuck in their cars, including your truly. I would have taken a picture of it but I was too busy furiously digging myself out. It is a good thing I was a block from my sisters house and there were lots of people who came to help otherwise I might still be digging. Once I got home we bundled the boys up and went out to shovel. Angela took these photos of me and they boys in action shovelling our deck off.

I don’t think that Owen was feeling it, after a few minutes he wanted to go inside and “warm up”. I am sure he was plenty warm but was more interested in playing than shovelling.

Brandon stuck it out for another 10 minutes before he too had enough. It takes a lot of effort to move all that snow, especially for a 2 year old!

We were supposed to head to galaxyland as a reward for both the boys doing so well all week with potty training but after me getting stuck and all the snow that kept coming down… we decided to have a “popcorn and movie” night in with the boys. They were all over it and were quick to pick out what bowls they wanted their popcorn in.

We watched Toy Story 3 and of course you have to have the popcorn bowl to go with the movie, just like at the theatres. By the way when the four of us went to the theatre to see Toy Story 3 I spent the entire movie post previews sitting on the floor of the lobby with Brandon asleep on my lap. I am happy to report that we all successfully watched the entire “moody” as Owen pronounces it, but unfortunately it is still snowing so off to shovel for the 4th time today.

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This is Kosmo. He is my amazing dog and walking partner. Kosmo was adopted from the Edmonton Humane Society 5 years ago when he was just 6 weeks old.

Our walks are not all about fire hydrants…

he lets me stop to smell the flowers too!

An added bonus of having nightly walks is some of the breathtaking sunsets we witness. This is facing away from the setting sun but it cast such a dramatic glow on the houses with a storm approaching overhead.

Taking a break with some very whispy clouds overhead. Kosmo is such an awesome dog, he lets me take as many pictures as I want and he sits so patiently waiting for the walk to resume. This is why he is featured on the blog many a time.

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We had a storm a few days ago that was pretty severe. It was actually 3 different systems converging and creating heavy rain, hail, and pretty spectacular lightning. The Edmonton Journal referred to it as once in a decade storm. Of course it was so intense that I didn’t even try to take any photos as the lightning and thunder were right on top of each other and the thunder shook our house. As if I was going to stand outside trying to photograph that. From inside the house you could barely see out as the rain was so intense it was pouring down the windows and clouding any detectable objects.

I did however capture this photo from the following day of a system on the horizon using a 10 second exposure. I just kept running 10 second exposures trying to capture the clouds lighting up from the lightning inside. The cool thing is that it just so happened that I was able to get only 1 shot out of about 100 and there happened to be a fire truck passing through responding to a call with its lights on. That would be the red, white, red streak through the frame.

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OK yesterday started off like an average Edmonton spring day but the forcast was calling for some “snow”. Hmm by the time I got home there was massive wind gusts and it was indeed snowing. Environment Canada had a wind warning for the City of Edmonton – St. Albert – Sherwood Park. Their website warned “This system is generating strong northwesterly winds of 60 gusting to 90 km/h this evening.” and “will also give significant snowfall to areas of Northeastern Alberta by Friday evening. Snowfall accumulation will be around 10 to 15 centimetres before the snow ends Friday night.” Nice! well I am not going to let it get me down because I know that Spring will still prevail at some point, even if only through pictures for now.

And to think the ducks and geese were just settling in on the ponds out back the last few days. Poor guys!

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