MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!!

Merry Christmas from our family to yours!!! Here are some videos of Alex this morning...completely overwhelmed. He ate a huge lunch and crashed for a nap just before 1pm!! I'm sure round 2 will commence after nap time. Love to everyone!

AFTERMATH

Well, we survived hours of shoveling snow (although our backs are killing us now. Here are some "after" picstures of the house and our shoveling. We're very excited to Grammy, Papa, Morgan & Matt to arrive tomorrow so the Christmas fun can really begin!

mittens are on (Aunt Megan would be proud)

Here I am shoveling a path for Rummy off the deck at about 5pm on Saturday' it had about 2-3 more inches in it by the time the snow finally stopped at 8pm.

left side (as you look at it) off the back of our deck...

right side (looking off the deck) of our back yard

Christmas crafts to cure the cabin fever...

when can we go back outside?

home sweet home

shoveling the front porch and sidewalk

Alex was my big helper with his shovel

Marc starts the driveway...Rummy loved the paths we were making...

the snow was over Marc's knee between our house and Rick/Randy's...he was on his way to shovel snow away from the cable/AC/power boxes...

Alex and JohnMichael...shoveling away

back view off the deck Sunday morning

a couple of neighborhood shots

whew, the driveway is done...the piles of snow will take forever to melt

waaaaa. marc and i thought this picture was so funny. he's crying b/c he wants to look at himself on the back of the camera after I take the picture. I was trying to explain that he has to say "cheese" first so there is a picture to look at....sigh.


Alex was quite the shoveler..I have some other good videos but they're right at 2min long and I'm having a hard time uploading them to the BLOG. I'll try again later.

LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW

Well, here are some (mostly) chronological pictures and videos of our blizzard. It started snowing last night around 7pm and hasn't stopped yet. So far, we have at least 24 inches. We are under a blizzard warning until 6pm (another hour from now) and we're under a winter storm warning until 2am tomorrow. It is predicted that we'll get 4 more inches tonight and that the snow plows won't get to the residential areas until Monday!! We're having a cozy weekend at home, that's for sure! Enjoy the pics and videos and be sure to scroll down to see the pictures I posted yesterday too!!

Here's our first 1-2 inches from last night...

Alex had to try on his snow boots before breakfast...and wanted to wear his hat to eat!


The layers begin, to go outside...


Layers complete.

Phase II of the back deck...

Daddy and Alex out front...this was 9:30am today...

All snowy, watching daddy clown around in the snow...

Mommy's little snow angel...

Mommy and her little man...Alex was loving using his rake in the snow.

Funny man...

Phase III on the back deck...the snow was piling up quickly.

More Phase III, I guess.

Marc went out to scrape off the tables real quick so there wasn't too much weight on the glass. This was probably between 10am-11am today...there is already 7-8 inches back on top of them now.

Rummy's path was filled back up pretty quickly. I did it again 1 hour ago (at 4pm) and I'll post those pictures later. Notice how high it's getting on the fence here...

Icicles on our front porch lights...

One tiny twig still showing on the azaleas (left sife of house)...it's even less now and the right side of the house has no azalea left showing at all.

street/driveway view from the front porch

cable box...almost to the top of it now

when I opened the front door to take pictures...

Phase IV in the back yard...RIDICULOUS.

Failed Snow Ride but lots of fun! We'll try sledding tomorrow after it finally stops snowing and the powder gets packed down in the street some. This was at 9:30am today!!

Here is Rummy frolicking around and Alex laughing at Marc...I love this video!! Also at 9:30am today!!

FIRST SNOW, ARMY/NAVY, & MORE!

first snow of the season for us a few weeks ago...& we're supposed to get over a foot tonight! We're hoping to hit the "slopes" on our sled tomorrow...standby for pics!!

Alex had a fun time hanging Christmas gel "clings" on the sliding glass door during the snow

Go Navy, Beat Army (8th win in a row!!)...here are us USNA roomies all bundled up

Class of 2002 tailgater, note that Dan Cnossen was there and doing great!

Marc and I all bundled up! Alex had a fun weekend at home with Aunt Margot...thank you again Margot!

the big screen at the game...

Meg's brother Dan and his wife Stephanie

Meg's mom (Grammy) and her handsome grandson MJ

MJ and his mommy

The Ahr-Esposito clan, tailgating after the game!

Alex and John Michael got to play together Thursday night and they had fun splasing arond in the tub!

a big "cheeeeese" this morning before school...it was only 23 degrees outside!!

This afternoon was Alex's Christmas party at school so Marc and I joined them at snack time...what a bunch of yummy goodies they had!

the only bite of cupcake (read "frosting") Alex took...he's just like his dad-no sweets please

Look Mommy it's "party party party"