Baltimore blizzard 2016

We got a record snowfall last Friday and Saturday. Almost 30 inches! Thankfully, George wasn’t on call and we didn’t have to be anywhere. We just stayed home for several days, played in the snow, watched movies, ate treats, had our neighbors over, went to our neighbors house, started shoveling out and waited for the plows to come.   
   

George had a flight at 6am Monday morning to go to the Midwest for an interview. He ended up leaving Sunday night. He had to hike out of our neighborhood to a Main Street to have an uber car pick him up. He stayed at the airport Sunday night and was able to go to the interview and flew home Tuesday night. 

No more cold feet!

 We are living in a very old house that we found out is very drafty in the winter time. I was down in the cellar recently and the insulation seems to be falling unfortunately. Since we’re renting and our landlady lives several hours away, I’m not sure if it will get fixed. However, this explains the breezes coming up through the floor and how chilly it gets downstairs. Well, my slippers finally arrived! They were supposed to come last weekend but since we had 30 inches of snow, we haven’t had mail delivery for five days. I also got Lydia some slippers since the two of us were the only one without a pair. They are definitely keepers! No more cold feet 🙂  

Recently…

This has been how we have increasing time together and today, how we did bedtime with the girls.     
 
I’m probably partial, but I think both those people in the last picture are pretty cute!  And yes, George wears pink scrubs at the hospital he works at now. 🙂

It finally snowed!!!

 Well…kind of 🙂 But it was enough to play in for a while. They were taking turns “sledding” in our back yard.  

My favorite People

 We have been making good use of our Christmas present science center pass. George went with us for the first time yesterday. Here are a few pictures. Enjoy!  
    
   

Today…

 What did you do today?  We went to worship, came home to make lunch and watched the Moody Church’s service streaming live while cooking, had spaghetti for lunch, made oatmeal cookies, had resting time during which I was working on the checkerboard I’m making, had Dean over to play, had supper consisting of fried eggs, cheese, oranges and popcorn, watched “Frozen,” got ready for bed, read a bible story, facetimed with George, tucked everyone in and proceeded to work on the checkerboard until way too late.  

Lydia 12.5 months: she’s walking pretty well now, says daddy, mommy, down, more milk, Dean, dog, loves to sing, laugh, read books together and in general enjoys all our day-to-day activities. She waves to just about anyone and flashes her big gummy smile (though she does have two teeth now), blows kisses, and loves attention. Lydia may be our most opinionated child so far. She wins the prize by a long shot for not sleeping through the night the longest and has probably traveled more miles than any of the other girls. She’s a sweetie! Definitely a keeper 🙂

Checkerboard

 This is my belated Christmas present to the girls. I had every intention of getting it done in time, but as you can see, that didn’t happen. I am almost done with the checkerboard and then I will need to finish all the checker pieces. I am making those out of fabric yo-yos with buttons. Soon I will post pictures of sewing projects that I’ve done since we’ve moved. We’ve done some dresses and swimsuits and some little projects. I’m really itching to do a quilt. I want to make Lydia and Clara both a crib size quilt and do a bigger quote also out of scraps that I have. We will see. I’m realizing that this might not be the season for stuff like this. I really enjoyed it though and often do projects when George is gone working long hours or out of town. 

More pictures from Therese’s visit

   
    
    
 

Happy Birthday Therese

Therese surprised me the other day with a text that contained flight information for her flight out here to visit us this week. We decided to surprise the girls and not tell them. Grace and  Elliana had swimming lessons late morning today. We drove from there to the airport. I knew Grace would know we were going the wrong way home so when I got off on the exit to the airport I said “oh no! I just got off on the wrong road! I’ll have to pull over and figure out how to get home from here.” Pretty soon after we pulled up to the airport and I was “checking directions,” Therese shows up. Clara spotted her first and said “I see auntie… Therese?” They all were very surprised and said later that that was the most exciting part of their day and they always want her to surprise them when she visits.  At the time, however, you would have never guessed they were surprised or excited. 🙂 Everyone wa

s a little sober. I think Therese and I were the most excited. Anyway, today is Therese’s birthday. We hung out at home, made dinner then went to the Cheesecake Factory for dessert. (Made sure we brought home a piece of cheesecake for George too since he couldn’t make it). Here are a few pictures:

             
 

Addendum: 

Thursday, we spent the morning putting around the house, cleaning up dishes, and other various stuff. In the afternoon, we went shopping which is something that I never do besides grocery shopping. We went to target, JoAnn fabrics, and goodwill. I found a few things that we needed and maybe a few things that were a little treat for me. We came home and had eggs and pancakes for supper and after the kids went to bed watch the movie”Belle. “It was an excellent movie!

Today (Friday), we spent the morning at home then had lunch with Becky, Dean and Louis. After that, Lydia was finishing her nap and Therese practice violin with Grace. Then we went to the science center for the rest of the afternoon. We just pulled into our house. Therese should be boarding her plane now and heading home. We miss her already! Come back soon Theresie!!

Old and new

   
Our family takes up the whole couch these days!

 Grace, 3   
Grace, 4

 

Elliana 6mo
   
Last fall, expecting Lydia

  June 2007, our first visit back home after our wedding. Isaac, 6 and Eva, 4 came home with us for the week.   
Grandpa Harvey and me 2007

 

Clara 1

   
Grace 4 taking a bath in the sink like baby Ellie 

 
Grace, 2

   
George found a van in Chicago like the one he drove in college

  Why do our babies have to grow up? This is Grace and George 5 years ago  
September 2014, we all have babies in our tummies

 Christmas 2010   

May 2015

  Aaaaaand back to some recents 🙂