7 months old and a Merry Christmas to all

Ms. Lena on her 7th month anniversary of life! And not a day goes by where she doesn't give me her judgmental face....bless her heart I think she gets it from her father!

Even though there were just two of us, doesn't mean we didn't get to feast. Brenton continued on his father's Christmas dinner tradition with Lasagna Italian style (with a white sauce) and a whole pan of rolls!! Merry Christmas carbohydrates, merry Christmas!

Even though it's hers, the high chair is actually a Christmas gift for me. No more fighting her in the little chair thingy!

I love the high chair! I can just stick her in it while I make dinner, instead of letting her wonder around the room and then having to play, "where is the scream coming from?"

There is a Mexican Grandmother laughing right now with this picture! This is her prized new trick, the raspberry!

Well that is it for now, Ya'll come back and see me ya hear??

Snowed in Day 2, 3, 4......the last week

I don't understand why I can't remember to write in here more often. I wanted to do a day 2 of the blizzard, and I even got some pictures, but alas I forgot and now the effect is gone..sad.

To sum up the storm:

We got about 21.2 inches of snow, the average snowfall for the season is 18 inches!

Next time a blizzard is coming I am going to buy a shovel and/or ice skates because I was sliding around for a week!

The Brenton and I had way too many baked goods, impossible as that sounds, it's true!

Apparently when there is snow on the ground, other pet owners feel that it's ok to have their pets "mess #2" right on the sidewalk and they don't need to clean it up...Oh how wrong they are!!

I had come to the conclusion that I was too spoiled with my Utah snow removers, and if any of those snow removers would like to come to MD I have a great apt complex who needs some education on how to plow snow and lay down salt!

Today we have had rain come and wash the snow away, I can see grass and sidewalks again...Happy Days!

Snowed in....Day 1

Well it was mid week when the news of the big storm started circulating

"Are you ready for the 6-9 inches of snow this weekend?" Mind you the last storm that had 2 inches people were very uneasy.

By Friday the number of inches of course only increased....10-12" then the best 20 INCHES!! No one was Christmas shopping on Friday, they were all at the grocery store, all the milk, toilet paper, eggs, and butter were off the shelves. (Snow freaks people out over here)

I tracked the storm on weatherchannel.com and it said that the snow was to start on Dec 18th around 9pm...and they were right. It snowed ALL night!

I had to work Sat morning so I warmed up Sheila and we headed out on our 20 mile drive to work. Now I would like the Maryland Department of Transportation to please contact the Utah Department of transportation and have a little chat about HOW TO CLEAR A ROAD!!! Poor Maryland I know you don't have to deal with snow a whole lot, but it would help when we are supposed to get double digit inches of snow if you knew how to use a snow plow!

So after only a few hours of work, (because everything in the state of Maryland shut down!) we headed back home, and home we stayed. I was so ready to get my bake on....meaning ask Brenton to whip up some of his cinnamon rolls, but sadly we didn't have enough eggs! Ugg talk about not being prepared.

So after a full morning and afternoon of snow and blizzard warning, I took Chloe out for a little snow adventure..aka Potty Break.

This is what our apt parking lot looks like. Most of these cars didn't move since the snow started, so you can really see how much we got! Sheila got recovered after I got home from work, poor girl I bet she is cold!

Oh Chloe...if she would smell something she would bury her whole head into the snow, weirdo!

Overall it was a fantastic day of fires in the fireplace, cooking, and we started our card game tournament, we played Phase 10 ( I don't want to talk about it)

Get this...Church has already been canceled for tomorrow.I love the concept of snowing means go home and you don't have to do anything, unlike the previous state I was in..>UTAH....where snow meant just get on the freeway earlier and get your butt to work...LAME!

Tomorrow is Day 2 of being snowed in and I am excited!!! Now if a dozen eggs would end up on my door step tomorrow!!