Nora's snowman

The snow continued to fall today, and while mommy and daddy took turns shoveling out the driveway, Nora was hard at work building her first snowman of the season.

Getting ready for Christmas

Grandma and Grandpa finally made it to Seattle this afternoon on their second attempt. Uncle Drew's flight was diverted to Portland because of a medical emergency but should be here in a few minutes...and Auntie Pea has made it to Detroit, where she will stop for the night before continuing on to Seattle in the morning.

New Sign

All Done!

We're getting chubby cheeks back!

Playing in the snow with Mommy

Nora put her snowpants on and entertained Mommy, who was outside shoveling this morning.

Snowstorm!

Like much of the northern US, we got record-breaking levels of snow over the last few weeks. Fortunately for us, the electricity has stayed on throughout the storm (unlike the one we had two years ago). We saw a maintenance crew last night around 11 PM cutting branches away from the power lines with a chainsaw.

All of our neighbors' trees seem to be staying put so far, although one of them looks dangerously close to falling over...you can see it in this picture directly above the guest room window.

The snow has caused all kids of problems including cancelled flights...Grandma and Grandpa were originally supposed to arrive in Seattle earlier this morning, but after a long drive up to the Minneapolis airport they were informed that their flight had been cancelled due to weather. They are going to make another attempt on Wednesday.

More Snowflake Lake Pictures

Nic in WI (continued)

Nic in WI

Christmas celebration with the Remfreys

On Saturday we had an early Christmas celebration with the Remfreys. Nic made the rounds and kept all of us entertained!

Nic's Wisconsin Adventure

Nic and I headed back to Wisconsin this weekend to celebrate an early Christmas with family and friends. At first, I was apprehensive about traveling alone with a 12-month-old, but after he managed to charm the flight attendant into letting us have our own row on the plane, I realized that things were going to turn out better than planned.

Snow Flake Lane

Last night we met Dyanna's whole family in Bellevue to watch the little dummer boys and girls perform at Bellevue Square. Nora saw a snow princess, Roudolph, and a penguin. We had a blast!

More fun with portraits

Nora was in charge of the tree

Decorating the tree

Nic watching the decorating

Nic stayed in his pack-n-play while we decorated the tree. You can see his two little teeth starting to poke out when you look at the full-size image.

Getting ready for Christmas

Now that the kids are healthy again, we are catching up on the things that we were supposed to do last weekend like getting the Christmas decorations up.

Tonight we got a nice Noble Fir from a nursery down the road and a beautiful handmade wreath to hang on the door. Nora was in charge of hanging the ornaments on the tree, a duty she took quite seriously. I was busy documenting the event like some crazy paparazzi. I have a long way to go before I figure out how to get everything right on this camera but it has been a lot of fun to play with so far.

Last Day with Mommy Home

Our Little Man is back to his ol' self and loving bath time.




























Yes, he is painfully skinny at this point :-(

DyDy

I'm sure many of you have heard us talk about Dyanna, the kids' nanny, but here she is, in the flesh.