Family Christmas picture 2008

Victoria and Alexandra, Christmas 2008

Snow..Glorious Snow!!

Old man winter has arrived in all of his frigid splendor. Here are some of the highlights... Dangerous dripping icicles

The view down our street

This is one leg of a maze that Dave shoveled into the backyard for Victoria to play in

My snow angel..making snow angels!

Victoria and Peanut playing in the back yard.

I embarrassingly got BOTH cars stuck in the driveway yesterday. Thankfully, our neighbor brought his snow blower over and blew us out. Dave did a bunch of shoveling and alas, we were freed. The snow continues to fall at a rate of 2 inches per right now.
Unfortunately, our Christmas packages got a bit delayed. We're hoping they make it to their destination soon.

Barilla Pasta

Dave just got a job working for Barilla Pasta! He likes his job and gets great perks...like lots of free pasta, sauce and crisp bread...not to mention the swag bags! My pantry is already bursting! Everyone make sure they buy Barilla and keep Dave employed :-)

His next step??? To learn to speak Italian!

5 Month well baby check

Alexandra went for her 5 month check up yesterday. She is in perfect health and developing wonderfully. We were pleased to hear that her lungs and ears are clear after the dreaded respiratory/ear infection from Thanksgiving. She is in the 25th percentile for weight at 13 lbs 12 oz and in the 78th for height, measuring 26 inches.

Victoria Grace 3 whole years old already!

Here's our Victoria's newest picture!

Winter Festival of Lights

We trekked up north and across the border to check out Niagara Falls and the Winter Festival of the Lights last night. Put on by the Niagara Parks commission, they have amazing light displays and fireworks at the end of the evening.
We hiked all around the area and about froze but it was fun!

This flag is pretty neat, it changes between a Canadian Flag and an American one depending on what angle you are viewing it at.


Did I mention it was COLD? The Minolta Tower showed the temp as a balmy -13C...that's 8 degrees to us NYers.



Just look at the rosey cheeks!!!
















They have a big Disney light display with scenes from the movies. Victoria loved the Princesses.



Beauty and the Beast



Of course the Disney Faeries




Not to mention Arial.
We wandered through a lovely greenhouse. It reminded me of that scene from Frosty where he takes Karen into the greenhouse to keep her warm until Santa comes to take her back home. It was so peaceful to walk through the warm, fragrant flowers. This Nativity scene was nestled among the plantings.














Santa took time out from his busy schedule to see the girls. He was amazing and even took the time to talk to them, find out what they wanted and to whisper in their ears about being kind all year and that his favorite kind of cookies were chocolate chip and would they please leave him some with milk on Christmas eve.






















The Misty Gang....




















The evening ended with a beautiful fireworks display over the falls...