Valentine's Day

We had a nice Valentine's dinner at Eddie Merlot's, a steak restaurant in Columbus.















Mom and Dad Young sent us a delicious goody basket filled with cookies, brownies, and muffins.

Beautiful red roses from Chris! They smell as good as they look.

Mother Nature Cripples Columbus!!

This has been a very interesting February. Columbus, a city that normally gets one large snowfall a year, is in a state of shock with the snowfall totals we've been getting. We have had so much snow, in fact, that the schools have closed early one day, and been closed all together for three days over the last two weeks.

Chris and I laugh over how little snow it takes to send this city into a state of panic; people are clearing out the shelves at grocery stores, schools and businesses are closing, people are crashing into their mailboxes, etc. Growing up in cities that see snowfalls like this on a fairly regular basis provides us with a lot of insight on how Columbus is NOT prepared for the white stuff.








Our backyard after the first dumping of snow during the second week of February.








Nestle and Hershey love playing in the tundra that is our backyard. Now, it is so deep, though, that they don't like sinking into it. It's funny to watch them try to hop through the snow.












A view of the snow-covered roads. It took four days before a plow came through our neighborhood!