End of March

Snow # 2

The 1st big snow storm happened on February 6th.  Just a few days later, we got hit by an even bigger storm! This one was a little different though - very wet, heavy snow compared to the light, powdery snow from a few days before.  Lots of trees came down with this 2nd storm.

Keeping warm in the house by dressing like Little Red Riding Hood.

This picture is cool because it demonstrates how fast the snow was coming down.  Under that snow is a landscape light that's supposed to shine on a sign.  That light gets very hot, but is was so cold and snowing so hard that the snow accumulated faster than it melted.

SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and some other stuff

I really wanted to write all about all of the AMAZING snow we got in a few different storms, but it is now almot May, so I don't remember all of the details I wanted to write about, and I also don't have a lot of time to spnd on this, so I'm pretty much goimg to let the pictures do the talking. 

Before we get to the snow, though, just a few pictures.  Here's Jackson coming home with his Granny Wiley to meet his new baby sister (remember that he and I had been quite sick so Sarahr, Lilly, and Mrs. Wiley were in quarentine). 

2/1/2010

2/2/2010

Here's Jackson in "time out" for the 1st time. 

In this 2nd one he kind of looks like "Puss 'n Boots" from Shrek when he's giving the sad face with the huge eyes.

2/3/2010

Lilly in a laundry basket.

2/5/2010

This is the kind of reception I get every night when I get home.

After he screams and runs up to me, he runs away screaming as I pretend to be a dinosaur sneaking up on him.  He runds until he falls or gets to the couch, and then just lays there until I get him.

Ok, finally, the snow.  We had had a few small (few inches) snows this winter since December, but January had been pretty quiet.  Then, on February 6th, we finally got a big Nor'Easter, which usually bring sus our biggest snows.  I gorgot how much snow we got with this one, but it was in the upper teens (in inches), with blizzard conditions for much of the time it was coming down.  Needless to say, I was in heaven.  I know I've said it a million times, but  I love the snow.  I love the way it looks, I love that weather in general, I love shoveling it, I love playing in it, walking in it,  . . . . .

This is what it looked like that monring when we got up.

Jackson is standing up in this picture.

Sarah's mom lives in South Florida and wasn't exacty prepared for the weather.  I think this was the extent of her only trip outside that day. 

I sat with Lincoln outside on my lawnchair enjoying the height of the blizzard.

We weren't very prepared either.  Jackson doesn't have any snow boots.

Around mid day when things began to slack off, I started to clean off the cars enough to move them up the hill so that the snow plaws could clear out our parking areas.  Here's my beautiful truck.

Some light reading at the end of a long hard day. 

More from January

I thought I was finally ready to move on to February and our big snows, but then I started consolidating and re-organizing our pictures and I found a bunch more.  So, here's more stuff from January.

Jackson is reading a book with Sarah in this video.  He likes to make the animal sounds, and usually he's hilarious with the cat sound, but off camera Lincoln and I are playing and Lincoln likes to make a low growling noise to get my attention.  Jackson was copying it in the 2nd 1/2 of the video.

We posted pictures of Lilly when she was 1st born, but now we have video.  This 1st one was from when she was literally just a few second old (don't worry - nothing gross!)

She still had those black demon eyes!

Here's Sarah holding Lilly for the 1st time. 

 Lilly is already snarling at me when her mom isn't looking.

OK, finally the snow next time.

My 2 Boys Wrestling

Jackson Happenings

Still trying to catch up for the summer. Here are some random videos and pictures from the 2nd half of July.

This is Jackson and Sarah being silly.

This is Jackson's new thing - he likes to feed Lincoln. I finally caught him on tape. He knows he's not supposed to do this!

Some pictures from Matthew, Nicholas, and Sarah's mom's last evening in PA in Valley Forge National Park.

I got Jackson this pool for his birthday. He loves it.

He also got this truck for his birthday. He plays with it all the time.