One Step Forward...

After picking up Ben from work, we decided to head to Target to see if we could find anything on sale that interested us. If you have a Target nearby check it out!!! There are huge discounts on toys, clothes, organization bins, etc. I did make my way down the baby aisle! It was very strange. I never thought I'd have to shop in those aisles again! Nothing worth buying though. Plenty I wanted to buy, just nothing on sale that I wanted. =(

I did make my first 'pregnancy' purchase though! I bought a maternity shirt and get this...I paid $3.24! Get to Target people!

Well, we're hoping to make one purchase a week so spread out the cost of replenishing our baby supplies but thankfully, three dollars wasn't a big dent! Yeah!

Announcing Baby #3...

Ever since the day Andrew was born, I have said I was done having children. I don't particularly enjoy being pregnant (not that I hate it though!) and I enjoy the ages 2 and up most. Needless to say, I was set. If we were ever going to have more children, we would adopt. My husband would love to badger me to have more but nope, done. We both agreed we should make things "permanent" as to avoid any oops babies. With the appointment on the calendar, we were set. That is until April came around and I realized the appointment was scheduled right in the middle of our last minute trip to Hawaii. So we had to cancel. About 3 weeks ago, we began talking about rescheduling that all important procedure. I loved our family of 4. An even number, we can fit into a booth at restaurants, our car is perfect sized, each of us has our own room, you name it. I had plenty of reasons for being done. And yes, we were using methods of preventing another pregnancy...

But God has a sense of humor. He was probably holding his sides and laughing at my expression when at 5 days late I had a positive pregnancy test. Um, yeah. No mistaking that big plus sign. I laughed, I cried, and I'm still in shock. Still can't bring myself to journey down the baby aisle at Walmart just yet. Of course, Ben is thrilled. LOL He's hoping for a girl this time around. I, myself, wouldn't mind another boy but we'll see.

There will be many more posts to come regarding my surprise pregnancy and the dilemmas that come with it. Until then, for those of you that know me in real life, you can laugh at my expense. And no, I won't mind, cause I'm laughing too.

Snow update!

Our lovely blizzard (being the result of lake-effect snowfall-you were right Cindy!) has left at total of 21 inches of fresh snow! Our snow mounds on either sides of our sidewalks are at least 3 feet tall! LOL

more pictures from the blizzard

I'm still unsure but we may have hit the 2 ft mark in snowfall. We have A LOT of snow! Here are some pictures I took from inside while Ben was outside snowblowing.

Here is the BEFORE Ben snowblowed the neighbor's sidewalk (it's on the left next to the tad bit of green-which is a fence post belive it or not!)

Here is the AFTER picture. You can see just how deep the snow is and it's all fallen this morning and overnight.


Click on the pictures so you can get a better view!

Snowed In!

Okay, so this morning's weather was a complete shock to me. It's not that I didn't pay attention to the weather forecast. I did! They called for 3-5 inches of snow overnight. Not a big deal, living in northern NY. Well. I woke up to a complete blizzard and we have about 12-18 inches of fresh snow! HOLY COW! The one or two cars that have gone down the street are pushing the snow with their front bumpers! The plows haven't even made it to our side of town! Here are some pictures I took from my windows. You can barely see our fence that goes around our yard!

video of Andrew

Ben was playing around with his camera on his laptop and Andrew joined in. Together they took probably 10 movies but here is one of them! For some reason, every time Andrew talks to himself on the video, he jumbles all his words together and you can barely understand him. This one you can at least hear him say "I love you mommy".

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We've had lovely weather here in northern NY these past few days. Monday: Austin had a 2 hour delay. Tuesday: attended all day (much needed break from the humming!) Wednesday: Snow day (freezing rain/snow) Thursday: 2 hour delay. With all the fun stuff coming out of the sky, I now have someone in a 3 house radius from me that insists on snowblowing their driveway/sidewalks at 6am!!! Are you kidding me people?!? The first time they woke me up, it was 5:50am. I am not a morning person and was not happy about it. Today it was 6am on the dot. This time it woke Andrew up as well (who usually sleeps till 8ish). Now, I understand the need to get rid of the snow before you leave your house but that early?!? Have some compassion on those still getting their shut eye! I am soo tempted to look outside next time they wake me up and see which neighbor it is and ask them to at least wait till 7am!