2014 Snowpocalypse

As most people know (considering it made national and even international news), the surrounding area of Buffalo was just pounded with unrelenting snow last week.  Jonas and I were stuck at my parents' house from Monday night until Saturday morning, when enough roads were open and travel bans were lifted for Jonas to go to his dad's and for me to be able to make it home.  My parents got somewhere around 50-60 inches of snow.  The pictures are crazy, but they don't even do it justice.

A winter selfie

Papa lodged a ladder in the snow so Jonas could jump off...

but then the snow was up to the top of his head!  It took him a while to get out of that one.

Papa Dave giving the ladder a try

Jonas and Papa snow monsters

Grandma Jane working hard to get rid of snow overhangs to try to save the roof

Jonas and I built an awesome fort to hang out in

When the front loaders finally did come by the neighborhood (it was too much snow for regular plows), the snow banks were HUGE.  Jonas and I took a walk around the block to check everything out, and Jonas stayed on top of the banks all the way around.

I am so thankful everyone in our family was safe during the storm.  Here's hoping we don't have this experience again too soon!

Baby

I haven't posted on here in 3 months.  Our family is SO busy, and among other excuses, we don't have unlimited internet here to be able to blog.  But, our news is too exciting to keep to ourselves. We just got to see our new little baby via sonogram.  I am just over half way along, and we are so excited to meet our new son sometime around April 1st, 2015.

The kids are so excited to have a new little brother.  It is so neat for them to be able to ask questions and look at the app on my phone that tells us how big he is.  Right now he is approximately as long as a banana and weighs about 10 oz.  Although I can feel Baby kick on the inside, the kids (and Duane) are looking forward to being able to feel him kick, too.  The doctor tells us sometime around Thanksgiving...and we sure are thankful!