The Calm Before the Storm

It's been a fun week :) Last weekend we celebrated my Mom's birthday and went to a friends wedding. My Mom watched Tyler and he was playing with our nieces and I got a text message from my sister that the girls were playing dress up with him ha ha! I think the Phillie's shirt looks really good with a tutu :)



Helping Grammy open presents



This is Dave and one of our friends showing off their dance moves at the wedding...hysterical!



We clean up nicely when we want to ;)



On Wed. night we had a snow storm! Dave went to the Y and our Jeep ended up breaking down in the parking lot when he was leaving...just as the they were closing early because of the snow. This was at 6:30 and by 7:30 it was a blizzard outside! I had to go get him so our friend Juli came over and gave me her truck and watched Tyler for us and put him to bed while I went to rescue Dave - thanks Juli!! Thank goodness because we waited in the parking lot until 9:30 for the tow truck to come and it was so crazy outside and kind of freaky being the only ones in the parking lot in the middle of nowhere! With tears in our eyes we watched the Jeep get lifted up on the truck bed not knowing if we'd ever see her running again...she's 11 years old!

We finally got home and woke up the next morning with no power and 16 inches of snow on the ground! Our power was out for about 3 hours, but last winter we went a whole day with no power and heat with a one month old - 3 hours was cake! Next, it was time for clean up...I heard lots of commotion going on in the garage and apparently when Dave went to start the snow blower he pulled the start cord right off (he's so beefy)! The commotion was him kicking it which resulted in a hurt toe :) So he shoveled for over 4 hours that day and Tyler and I watched him from inside.

That morning we both noticed that Tyler wasn't acting like himself and figured we'd better call the doctor. Off we slid in my car to the doctor and we were right he had an ear infection :( The only positive thing about this doctors trip was we're being sent to the ENT doc next month so they can check him out. He's had 5 ear infection since September! Our lives have been very calm lately we were due for some craziness! Oh yeah and our toilet broke that day too, but Handy Manny fixed that one right away :) The snow sure does look pretty though!



This is before the plow comes through and leaves us with huge snow banks everywhere. Poor Tyler can't even see Barclay anymore when he looks out the door b/c the snow piles are too high! He's going through withdrawal...





That's our chiminea under there



This weekend we got the Jeep back (she's purrin like a kitten) and had some friends over yesterday for some Mexican food and margaritas. It was a fun time and was a good end to our week! Today we went to get Tyler some real sneakers because he's kicked things up to a slow run and while we were at the mall we stopped by the photo booth for our family picture lol! Notice in the 2nd picture down...all Tyler was concerned about was drinking the Auntie Annie's lemonade! That's after he ate all of our pretzels...we're so glad he's eating since he's been on a hunger strike from not feeling well!