Check out the new Avery!

Beautiful, isn't she.

Ok, so I know I'm going on and on about the snow but its just insane here. I would really be ok with all the white stuff if it was January...but its November.

Here is a pic of my wonderful hubby in his efforts to clear the driveway. He has been out there for over an hour and a half and the driveway isn't even half cleared. I hope Santa is seeing all this. Avery on the other hand could not be happier.

Can you say "HOLY SNOW"

This is what we woke up to this morning....about a foot and a half MORE of the stuff. This is a picture looking out our back patio door. You can really see how much we actually got, and this is just since last night (the deck was shoveled yesterday afternoon). CRAZY.

I sure hope that Santa brings me the snow blower I asked for.

Snow,

Yes we have a lot of it and the kids are lovin' it.

Remembrance Day

In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved, and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders Fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders Fields.

- John McCrae

I had my moment of silence today....did you.

Avery is 7!!!!!

Where did that time go? Wow.

Avery had a great birthday this year. It all started last Wednesday when grandma took Avery, Cam and their cousins horseback riding and then back to her house for pizza and cake. The kids all had a great time riding the horses and talked about it all the way home.

Then we went to Great Wolf Lodge this past Thursday and Friday. Grandma took Isaac for the two days so we were free to hit the water slides as much as we wanted. We had a fantastic and exhausting time. We crawled into bed just before ten last night and everyone here is having a very lazy day today.

Av, Cam and cousin Tiernan. This was Tiernans first trip to GWL and he loved it.

So this is a picture of Averys birthday present from Nana. It's a remote control tarantula. It's a little smaller then a dinner plate, it's all hairy, it's ugly........and Avery LOVES it. Isaac had the honour of meeting the spider this morning and he is horrified of it. Avery was making the spider chase him around and he just couldn't get away from the thing fast enough.