Snow storm of the century!

Oh My. So...there isn't too much I can say that you haven't already seen on the news. (Worst snow storm in 71 years), so I am adding pictures instead.

Here's Rob shoveling our steps for what I think was the 4th time yesterday!

We took Anna out for a little while, but the snow was coming down sideways so we came back in...she wasn't happy about that and kept trying to put her boots on to go out with Dad. (This made me feel awful!)

Today we woke up and the sun is shining. But here's the aftermath of yesterday's insanity. (Rob just dug out my truck AGAIN).

To give you people way down south an idea of just how much snow we got, here's my lovely assistant, Anna, standing in front of our deck. She's 33 inches tall.

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

The Christmas Tree

Our tree is up. It's somewhere in between the one found in Time Square and Charlie Brown's Christmas Tree...Still...Good luck finding something cuter than this....

Grandma Visit...baby Barrett

I'm running late on the posts (as usual) and I have more where these came from...we'll get there. Anyway, Rob's mom came to visit last weekend after Thanksgiving and I didn't get a chance to post pictures until today. Anna had a great time visiting with her Grandma :-)

And Anna got to meet her newest "little cousin" Barrett Poulos. She was even allowed to hold Barrett (with some help from his Mommy, Sarah and his Grandpa). Now every time we see a baby, Anna walks up and says "BABY!" and holds her arms out expectantly. She's going to be a great baby sitter one day....

That's it for now. Stay tuned for pictures of our Christmas tree (you had to know that was up by now...)

Happy Leftovers Day!

Hope you all had a Happy Thanksgiving yesterday! We spent this one at home- which is unusual for us. But it's the first one in years where we've had the opportunity to watch the Thanksgiving Day Parade and relax in our PJs. We missed the rest of the fam, but it was nice to bum around.

In other...strangely related news of things I'm thanful for, someone had a successful potty interaction on the day before Thanksgiving. You would have thought we won the lottery for all the celebrating we did! Way to go, Anna! You make me one proud mommy!

Last but NOT least: We're not that far removed from the USMC that we've forgotten about our troops. Thanks to those who are serving over the holiday season. You are in our thoughts.

yeah. That's what I thought.

Don't undermine the Mommy. I know when something is up with my little girl. Turns out she has walking pnemonia. Everything is cool and now she's on antibiotics so in 10 days she's all good. Phew.

Sick little girl, part 2

It seems that Anna is still feeling "blah". She just hasn't been herself, so we're heading back to the doc for a second opinion. (Re: after scouring the internet, psycho mommy wants to make SURE it's not H1N1). It's okay though, we have fuzzy owl pajamas.

Happy Halloween!

This was Anna's first year trick-or-treating! We didn't do too much, Rob took her around the block to the houses of neighbors we knew, while I handed out candy at home. She had a great time!

Our Little Chick!

Waldo stopped by for a visit before heading out to her party

Dad showing Anna what a cute little chick she is.

And last but not least, Kudos to the Pouloses for best pregnant costume we've ever seen.

Grandma is Spook-tacular!

Our poor little grumpy girl's day was made today thanks to Grandma T's surprise care package of crayons, cookies, barrettes, a sweater and purse. We LOVED it!!!

The barretts of people are supposed to be one of me and one of Anna (TOO CUTE). The dog is Scout and the Cat is Fury (Rob's cat when he was a kid).

Anna with her new crayons and halloween pictures (Note the cute halloween barretts)

Thanks Grandma!! Can't wait to see you after Thanksgiving!