Well the third day of the storm has come and gone and with it brought a lot of ice.

I had taken the time to get the majority of the ice off of the two cars yesterday but woke up this morning to find as much ice as there was the day before. After checking the news to see if we were going to get any more rain (which we were not) I went out and re-de-iced the cars and even the driveway.

We also brought the kids out for a while so that they could get out the house for a little. We had all be cooped up in the house for 3 days now and were starting to feel it. We went to Walmart to do some shopping and took the kids to McDonalds to play for a little bit.

As strange as it may sound it was kind of cool to see the weather change so much over the course of a few days. The last time I had seen snow at my house I was a teenager in the Antelope Valley.

You can see more pictures here.

That’s right, we have snow outside.

It is not a lot but it is snow.

I have taken pictures that you can see here -

Snow Pictures.

We have gotten our first real winter storm here in Texas.

Currently the temperature is 30 degrees outside and has stayed around there for most of the day. It is expected to dip into the 20’s tonight and frozen rain, slush, and even snow are expected. It is estimated that we could get 1/4″ to 1/2″ of frozen rain and possible 1-2″ of snow!

This is a big change from California!

The good thing is that we are completely prepared with food water and even a kerosene heater in the case that the electricity goes out. We are not planning on going anywhere in the car until this lets up so we should be just fine.

I snapped some pictures of some of the ice that can be seen here.

As you may have noticed that I have not posted in while. The reasons for this are many but the main reason is that I have been very busy in the last month.

The number one thing that has kept me busy the last month has been doing work on the side and helping Elsy with her web site that she now makes a little extra cash off. The other thing that has been keeping me busy are the little projects that we have been doing on the house. These include starting on Dan Jr’s room and various other little things around the house.

I am going to try to do some updates today to try and get this site back on track.

I have recently moved this web site to a new hosting company and in the process of moving it decided to give it a fresh look since it is almost a year old.

Anyway, send me any e-mail if you find anything that isn’t working properly.

In the previous post I noted that Elsy had started looking for a job since Dan Jr had turned 2 months old. Elsy hit the pavement running and had dozens of copies of her resume distributed all over Austin. She was going to several interviews every week with companies that were all very interested in her. Unfortunately though she was not getting job offers from these companies. They were telling her that she was overqualified.

After several weeks of this going on we knew that something must not be right. Everything had gone so smooth up to this point - me getting a job here, the move to Texas, the house - everything just fell into place - except this.

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Well we have had our first big thunder storm here in the new house. We had seen a few in the apartment but being in the house was quite different.

One of the differences was that you can hear the intense rain hitting the roof. In the apartment we were on the first floor so we would not here it.

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It’s hot outside!

This is the first day since we have moved that I have seen it hit the 100 degree mark.

Now this is the thing - it is not as hot as it gets here I have been told. I have been told that it gets up to the 110-115 range. Also, their is not really any humidity right. I hear that when it gets hot - Texas Hot - that the humidity plays a big part.

Oh, and if you notice the little cloud with the lightening come out of it - thunder storm. Like they say - everything is big in Texas. If this is like the typical thunder storm it will brush by at 35-40mph, dump 3-5 inches of rain, and then be gone within the hour.

With all of that said, we still love Texas and are not going anywhere!

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I have uploaded a lot of pictures of the kids that have been taken over the last few weeks. Some of them are good and some are OK quality. I am still trying to figure out all the settings on the camera. There are several cute ones though. You can see them through the recent photos or by going to each of the kid’s photos sets individually.

Also, I had noticed that the web site seemed to be running a little slow lately so I installed some software to the site that hopefully should speed it up a little.

Enjoy!

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As mentioned in my monthly wrap-up post from last month, I have started a new web site that is specific for the house.

The reason for this is that I really want to get in-depth with photos and tricks that I learn about things that I do around the house. I want to leave this web site for family specific things like what the kids are up to etc.

Anyway, the address of the other web site is themastershouse.net.

Also, I have imported the posts about the house from this site to there so that there is a complete line of history. I will still make mention of the house on this web site but will probably link over to the other site for more info.

Enjoy!

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