An update on our day

Maddie went down for an early nap right about the time it stopped snowing. We decided to take advantage of the time and get out and get some shovelling done. We we able to quickly make a path from the back door to the garage and decided to go ahead and open the garage door to see how the alley looked. This is what we were greeted with:






We stood there for a while trying to figure out what to do.




Um, yeah, we might still be snowed in tomorrow.

Not that these two would mind, I think they think this is the best thing ever!




I decided that while the sun was out (only briefly) and before the really cold temps set in(it's supposed to be -10 tonight without the wind chill) that we should get Maddie bundled up and outside for a few pictures.


Ready to go!


She mostly just stood there looking around and I don't think she was too sure of the walls of white stuff all around her.




I think here she's giving me her "I'm ready to go back in" face


We couldn't pass up the opportunity to actually put her IN the snow. Since her pants weren't waterproof we had her sit on Alex's arm so she hardly even touched the snow. I don't know if you can really see her face but she was not happy about it.


The drifts in the front yard are higher than the ones on the pathway in the back so I wanted to get a picture of her out there as well.


And this I feel will be a familiar seen in our house for years to come!


***Update - Alex has asked our neighbor is we can borrow their snow blower for the garage area so there is a chance we might be going to work tomorrow. We'll see what happens when they finally get around to plowing the alley. Right now Maddie and i are enjoying a Disney princess movie so I might just be okay with staying home for another day. Especially with all the shoveling taken care of, that is HARD WORK!

Snowed In!

We were lucky enough to be able to leave work about 2:30 yesterday and it still took us over an hour and half to get home. Even at 3pm yesterday, it had only been snowing for about an hour but the winds were so strong and blowing snow everywhere that visibility was already a problem. Once we were here we knew we weren't going to be going anywhere!

Tues 4pm




Tues 10pm






What we woke up to this morning at 7am.

Snow on our windows:


The front yard. Our village is AMAZING and our street is already plowed!


The back yard:


You almost can't even see the bin that is in one of the above pictures:




Alex trying to get outside to shovel some snow away from the door. We couldn't get this door open this morning so Pepper had to go out our front door and do her business in the front yard. (She typically loves the snow but is not interested in this 40 mph wind business)






A picture of our backyard from our bedroom window (our fence is at least 6ft tall)


Someone was excited when she heard "Snow Day"


And it's still not over! As I type the wind and snow have picked up and again and the weather men say we can expect at least another 2 inches before this afternoon. It seems the whole city is pretty much shut down. Lake Shore Drive (the road we used to live on and take home everyday) was shut down last night after a few accidents that caused people to be stranded in their cars for 12 hours. We are just so grateful to have been able to leave early yesterday as well as the fact that we never lost power throughout the night.

With the snow still coming down shoveling at this point is impossible, so we are settled in for a nice long day of a whole lot of nothing!

Thanks to everyone who has called to check in on us!

Two recent parenting oops!

Just a few of the goofs that had made us laugh in the last few weeks:

Daddy invented a new pair of socks called "Aquasocks" (due to the fact that he put her in the bathtub with her regular socks still on)




And mommy got distracted as Maddie played with a few homemade ornaments that we got for Christmas and before you know it we had this:

So long football season

We all got dressed up in our Bears gear for the historic playoff game today between the Bears and the Packers. Unfortunately the game didn't go the way we wanted, but we had a great day hanging out with some of our friends.








Maddie quickly became great friends with Sara, our host, who was more than happy to stuff her with goodies.




Sara's dogs didn't seem to mind one bit. She has three of them and they followed Maddie around for most of the day just waiting for her to drop something.






Even with the team not winning I was happy that we at least got a good family picture out of the day!


Now it's on to getting ready for baseball season - see you in the fall football!

Uggghhh

I know, I know, I need to update the blog. But to be honest I haven't felt like doing much the last few weeks. I've been really bad about taking pictures so I don't have much to update but I will share these few pictures of an impromptu dance session we had in the kitchen a few weeks ago.







We like to just turn on the IPod while we're making dinner and Maddie always likes to join in on the dancing.

Changes

It has been a very slow week at work and the weight loss ticker and baby ticker were really bugging me every time I was on the blog so I decided to make a few changes. Since Alex was the one that set up the blog I have to log in under his account in order to make any changes. The age ticker for Maddie is finally updated and the weight loss ticker is gone for now. I decided that there was no way possible to stay on my diet through the holidays (I mean come on, peppermint ice cream has been buy one, get one free for the last month - how can you pass that up). So, I have put off getting back on track until Monday and will somewhat re start everything then so I can be in shape for our wedding!

And since you really come here for the cute pictures, here is the proof of the baby club picture we got from our photographer. I can't believe how much she has changed in the last year!