Our First Snow Day

It started late Sunday night. We could hear the wind whipping around outside and the snow had started to fall. Monday, thankfully, the kids didn't have any school thanks to a PD day so we hunkered down inside and watched the snow fall sideways. For a lot of the time we couldn't see past the end of our driveway with all the blowing snow and we were thankful we had a nice warm place to stay because it was freezing cold outside.
Our neighbour was out plowing the driveway and finally around 3pm Ryan couldn't stand being stuck in the house any longer so we all piled into the van (yay for AWD) and took off to Canadian Tire. It was so insane outside. There were so many cars just stuck in drifts of snow or people that had their vehicles stuck in parking lots because of the snow piles left from the big plows blocking their exit. Other then the random cars all stuck in the roads, it was pretty dead.
On our way home Ryan kept jumping out of the van to offer his pushing services but finally we decided it was time to get the kids home. As we pulled into our driveway we noticed that the neighbour's truck was on but it wasn't moving. We waited for a while and slowly went as far as we could until Ryan parked the van and ran to see what was up. Johnny's plow was stuck and so Ryan went to help pull him out while we sat in the van and waited. During this wait our other neighbour from across the street pulls up in his truck and offers his help so off he goes barrelling down the driveway as fast as he could until he's totally stuck as well. By this time Neighbour 1 had his other truck out and Ryan was helping to try to pull out the plow only to have Neighbour 1 get his second truck stuck.
So now with 3 trucks stuck in the driveway Ryan heads to get his truck and help pull....
Now with 4 trucks stuck the kids and I make sure all the snow gear we had with us in the van is on our persons and we make a run for the house. The -30*C wind pelting us with snow down our 400m driveway was ok but hauling Madison through the huge drifts was a challenge. My butt hurt the next day after that short work out.
By this time Neighbour 2 had run home with our van (since his truck was stuck) to get his big snow digger machine and Ryan was starting up his big work rig to try to yank all these trucks out since it saved the day last time.
Thankfully the big rig only got half stuck for a while before they were able to get it positioned properly on the driveway and get everyone hauled out and the driveway got plowed. From the time we arrived at our driveway to the time it was plowed 4 hours had elapsed!

The next day was a snow day from school and Ryans big work rig had been trapped in with a massive drift through our front loop so it looked like it would be a snow day for him as well. Ryan was able to borrow the neighbours plow and he went to work on our road pushing snow into big piles that would be somewhat out of the way. We also had Neighbour 2s snow digger/blower and so Ryan cleared off the huge drift in front of the house creeping up the front stairway.
By the end of the day all the drifts that were blocking the driveway and the turn about on our property were cleared away and the kids made their way outside to play.

As if that wasn't enough we went into Airdrie to a friends for dinner and Ryan spent the entire time using his brand new tow rope pulling loads of people clear from our friends street. By loads I mean about 45 minutes time. I thought we had it bad out in the country but after driving through Kings Heights subdivision I was blown away with the amounts of snow piled on everyones lawn.
After we were well fed and warmed up we ended up at the theatre for cheap night to watch the new Disney movie Frozen with some more friends. I have to say that the perfect way to end a snow day is to watch a cartoon as a family all about snow!
I hope all of you were able to stay unstuck or help quickly found you!