Guy's Birthday party

Since 3 out of the 4 adult guys in our family have a birthday within a month of each other, we have had a "Guy's B-day Party" to give us another reason to get together and make tons of yummy food! :)

This year, Natalie (and Todd) hosted. On the menu: seafood chowder, bacon wrapped scallops, jalapeno poppers, cheesy biscuits, buffalo chicken wrap thing, and DESSERT!

Here are a few pictures from the evening... Luckily I don't know how to download the new videos, or else I'm sure Derek would make me download the "just dance" video (YIKES!) Unfortunately, I never did get a picture of "The GUYS."

My FAVORITE picture of ALL TIME!! (This is definitely going in her yearbook senior year!)

Avery's hair is just CRAZY right now! I love it! ;)

What a DOLL!

Our Snow Day! :)

We got a total of 18" on Wednesday... We got the first 6" Wednesday morning that was SUPPOSED to be rain. I had to end up cancelling 2 morning appointments because I just didn't feel it was worth it to take the boys out in the cold and deal with the messy roads. Although we live on a very busy road, they tend to NOT plow.... They would rather just use salt and wait for it to melt (??)

It started to clear up yesterday mid afternoon, only to get MUCH worse. We infact had freezing rain, then "thunder snow" and the last 2 hours it snowed 3" an hour! Luckily our landlord has a plow and got the driveway more managable... It STILL isn't wide enough to get the Ford out, although it doesn't really matter. I fought for about 50 minutes to get it out of its space!! I couldn't (and still can't) figure out why it was just spinning the tires. I finally turned off the stability control button and that seemed to allow the tires to move a few inches so I could get some traction. I've come to realize we bought nothing but a larger car that gets horrible gas mileage. We probably should have AT LEAST gotten 4WD! Oh well!



The rest of the pictures are from various windows around our house.

The stupid "SUV" that got stuck in the driveway... alot of good YOU are!! >:(

YUMMY chilli! (and mashed potatoes)

Brayden & Daddy playing Mario :)

Bryce isn't interested in the snow (that requires that he wear boots and he DOESNT wear anything by socks.) He's happy enough just EATTING and playing inside!