Growing

By popular request...
Wait, that's not Amy!
Here I am:

I am feeling good and growing every day.

Yesterday Kristen invited us to Baltimore for afternoon tea to meet and visit with some of her Baltimore friends. What we did not know was that she decided to give the tea a baby theme:


It was a very nice afternoon with delicious food, a variety of teas and great company. We had a nice weekend, beginning with an Olympic Curling Expo at one of the downtown hotels. I hope to get some pictures from that from our friends who we went with.

Belly Update..

Coming off of a tough one day work week, I am sure glad to have a three day weekend here!

Here are a couple shots Tom took of me last night...



Tom has night shift all weekend, so I plan to watch a lot of the Olympics and probably continue my nesting spree. We bought an antenna for the TV last night and we pick up NBC clear as a bell! The Opening Ceremonies were so nice (even if I did fall asleep for part of them).

We are slated for more snow Monday night - maybe work will be cancelled Tuesday!

Blizzard, Part 2

The snow is still falling. This is crazy. People in DC have been calling the dual-blizzard "Snowmageddon", "Snowpocolalypse", and "Snowverkill". All Fed Govt agencies are closed again tomorrow - that makes four days in a row. I am not complaining. Unfortunately, Tom has to work tomorrow night, but hopefully the roads will be a bit better by then.

Here he is shoveling us out (again!).

We had probably 14 inches so far. That is 14 inches on top of the two feet from the weekend. I heard on the radio today that we broke the all-time record for seasonal snowfall at Reagan Airport. The grand total is 52 inches for the winter so far. Really, this is just crazy for DC.

I will add a new belly photo tomorrow. I hope everyone else who is getting hit by this storm is doing well - I am sure that pretty much everywhere else is more prepared for it than DC.

More to Come

We are braced for another 10 - 20" overnight and into Wednesday. The snow has not started yet, but the sky looks threatening (not to mention the weather maps!).

The Dig-Out

Well, overall we got just over two feet of snow. It finally stopped falling late yesterday afternoon - now DC begins the long dig-out process. It is supposed to stay cold for the next several days with more snow on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Tom is on watch today. We got the car dug out yesterday, but luckily he was able to get a ride with a coworker with a big truck who lives right around the corner from us. There is so much snow on the roads that the Subaru might not have enough clearance in some places.

Here are a few pictures which don't really seem to capture the amount of snow out there. I think it is going to stick around for quite a few days!



Our house:


I will probably stay in all day - we walked out to meet some people last night and we made quite a pair with Tom still hobbling a bit with his broken toes and me waddling along! No worries - if I do go out I will be very careful and take my hiking poles for stability (per Tom's orders).

9 a.m. and Still Snowing

The total on our porch this morning seems to be about 14-16 inches. It is hard to tell, because there was a lot of blowing last night .


This cartoon seems very appropriate, given our recent move from Guam (thanks Dad!):


Weren't we just on the beach???

Preparing for the Blizzard... and Dreaming of the Beach

We are back in DC, preparing for the second big blizzard of the season. We are supposed to get up to 28 inches overnight tonight, the snow has started already!
We got home on Tuesday night (welcomed by a few inches of fresh snow). Our final few days in the Virgin Islands were great - the sailing trip was fun and I did not get sick. There was a quite a swell when we were crossing between the islands, but I felt fine by staying in the ocean breeze.

Here we all are in the golf cart. I was driving, that is why I was not looking at the camera. It was fun to drive around in the golf cart everywhere on the island!


The sailing day - out on the water. We sailed over to St. John to a beach which can be reached only by hiking or by boat.


And finally, a picture from our last ferry ride away from Water Island, what a sad, sad day...