The Wedding Post

Last weekend, we went to Connecticut for Cousin Pete and Meg's wedding. It was gorgeous and wonderful and beautiful. We are all very excited to welcome Meg into our crazy family.

I don't know why I didn't take many pictures of the ceremony or reception. Or the awesome after party where Uncle Fred's awesome band played. I took lots of pictures of the baby, of course. Because that's what I do. You can, of course, head on over to Margot's blog to check out her pictures and more detailed posts about it.

So, here's our boy. One of the rare occasions during this weekend he was actually in his mother's arms rather than his grandmother's arms. He was fascinated by the patterns on her dress.

Don't worry, he is looking at his bottle in this picture, not the glasses of wine. We haven't made the poor child into an alcoholic yet.

                                                        There's the beautiful bride!

(Not ColinB) Gabriel found better things to do than participate in the reception. He obviously finds comic books more exciting than dancing. Good choice, kid.

Catching Up

I've been neglecting this blog lately, I know. It's easy to do with Facebook and Twitter out there.

I'll start with the thing most people are talking about right now: The Snow!!

Yes. You read that right. Snow. In the middle of October.

So much, in fact, that I have a snow day today.

(Which is nice, 'cause it means an unexpected day off of work.)

(But bad because, WTF?? Snow in October??)

Pictorial evidence:



This was my drive to the store last week. A sort of gloomy, rainy day. Typical fall weather. The leaves were just beginning to turn.





These were trees from our backyard yesterday. There has been more snow since then.



Since the trees all still have leaves on them, the snow is weighing them down and causing branches to break off. A lot of people have lost power and phones in the area. We lost power at about 4:30am on Friday. It came back on between 9:30 and 10:00am.



The Boy™ discovered snow can make a nice cupholder on the roof of the car. Until it melts, that is. Then it makes a crappy cupholder.

The upside of this sudden, unnatural and unexpected snow storm (aside from my day off today) is that we have discovered that the heat in the new apartment does not, in fact, work. The maintenance guys have been here for the past few days working on it. I'm glad that they've figured it out now, when it's supposed to warm up in a few days, rather than November when it'll just get colder and colder until Spring.

I'll try harder not to neglect this poor blog so much. Next to come, a couple of pictures of ColinB from Pete and Meg's wedding last weekend. I meant to take more pictures of the actual wedding, but .... I'm a doting Auntie. I can't help myself.

The Littlest Ones

I love little dancers in tights with seams up the back.

And I admire their mothers' patience when the seams are straight.

Avenue Q

We saw Avenue Q tonight

I can cross something off my To Do list.

Gina is a happy girl.