The Family that Games Together

We have a lot of time on our hands right now. We are getting more snow as I write this, and we have no idea how much to expect. The news is saying anywhere from 10-20 more inches, so we aren’t going anywhere anytime soon.

Tony did manage to make it in to work today but he said the streets in the city were awful. He also got Landon out to the doctor’s office for his weekly allergy shot, but that has pretty much been the extent of “getting out”.

So, we’ve been playing LOTS of video games. Here are the one’s keeping us busy:

Tony:

Bioshock 2 came out today and he just had to stop at the store to pick up his copy. He’s already spent an hour playing it…

Me:

The Sims 3. I’ve had it for awhile and Zoe and I played it for quite some time, but then it got put away for a bit…it’s back out and I’ve got the World Adventures expansion pack to go with it. I’ve spent countless hours playing this silly game!

Zoe:

Gears of War 2. She’s just recently realized that she can hook up with friends on the X-Box and talk to them while playing this game. She’s spending lots of time talking to friends and learning how to play the game at the same time…if she keeps it up, she and Tony are going to have some serious issues sharing the X-box!

Landon:

Castle Crashers. He started playing this game quite awhile back, but in true Landon fashion he quit mid way through. Yesterday he found it again and has been fighting for time on the X-Box as well…I have to say that this game seems to be really geared to boys his age. I can’t think of any other video game out that has animals pooping and peeing all over the place. Little boys just love them some bathroom humor…

 

Sledding/Snowboarding

The kids got lucky and Tony took them to the big hill to go sledding the other day. Since I didn’t go I don’t have any photo’s, but I did hand Tony the video camera on his way out…so, I have clipped some of the highlights of the video’s to share.

The first one is of the two of them crashing into Tony:

The next one is of Landon’s best snowboard run:

The third one is of Zoe attempting to snowboard:

And, the final video is of the kids sledding down the hill together…and crashing into Tony again! You would think he’d learn his lesson after the first time!?!

It looks like we are going to be getting more snow beginning tomorrow afternoon through Wednesday. They are saying we should expect anywhere between 10 and 20 inches! Yikes!

Snow Photo’s

I suppose the snow theme is getting old for everyone, but since we are snowbound I really don’t have much to talk about. My days are pretty much consumed with snow; cleaning it up, wiping up tracks, washing and drying clothes, listening to the news about the storm…you get the idea.

This was the first night of the storm and I waited until about 10pm to get this picture. I just love how you can see all of the snow coming down! This is how it looked outside for about 2 days straight. It was so windy that first night I swore our tree was going to break the window on the side of the house, but we got lucky and nothing happened. Luckier still, we never lost power and that is something I am extremely thankful for!

This next photo is what we woke up to on Saturday morning. I couldn’t believe how piled up it was on the back porch and railing! Poor Ginger wasn’t happy when she saw all that snow either and we had to dig her a small path just to go out to do her business!

 

The next two photos aren’t the best but I wanted to get some pictures of all the birds we had attracted to our yard with the bird feeder. The pictures are taken through the window and sliding glass door because every time I opened the door they would all fly off. We probably had 40 birds in our yard at a time…some eating from the feeder, some eating what fell to the ground and several taking shelter on the bare branches of the trees.

  

These last two are of the igloo the kids were able to build in the front yard. I couldn’t believe it when I came out and Landon and Zoe were both sitting in it!

Storm of the Century?

Well, that’s what they’re calling it on the news anyways. I cannot believe how much snow we already have outside and it just keeps coming down like it’ll never end. We are well above the 2 feet mark, and it isn’t supposed to stop snowing until late tonight!

Tony has been shoveling off and on all day. He did some of the front, then dug a path in the back, then back to the front again…it is an endless job right now and the worst part is that it just keeps coming down.

I got a couple video’s today, but I couldn’t do much because it was too snowy and windy and I didn’t want to get the camera wet…

The first one is of Tony. I suppose if you are the one doing all the shoveling you might as well have a little fun while your at it. I wish the darn screen door wasn’t in the way! If you look in the distance a bit you can see our fence, which is 4 feet tall…now you have an idea how deep the snow really is!

The second video is of Landon pretending to be stuck in the snow…until he realizes he really is stuck! He does love to put on a good show though!

This last one is of Landon attempting to do what Tony did in the first video, but he wasn’t quite as successful!

I’ll post some pictures tomorrow.

Snow Pants

If you aren’t happy about all the snow we’ve been getting, I’m pretty sure I know who you can blame.

Landon’s been wearing his pajama bottoms inside out for the past 3 or 4 days…and just recently his shirt too. It sure seems to be working considering the record breaking amounts of snow we’re getting.

I’m just glad we have so much stuff to do while stuck inside because we are supposed to be getting upwards of 2 feet during this storm. I made sure to not only hit the grocery store but the scrapbook store as well…so, I should be good to go for a couple days!

Puzzled?

We have been getting crazy snow around here. We had our first big storm back in December and we may be getting another 24 inches tomorrow! I am pretty sure that I am one in about 5 people in Maryland who are fine with all this snow!

We’ve had a couple other snow days here and there this past month and we’ve been busy finding things to do in the house. There has been lots of video game playing, movie watching and I’ve even managed to do some scrapbooking.

Yesterday, since we were all home, we pulled out a puzzle to work on…it’s been ages since we’ve done that! Zoe started it with me, but she just barely helped me finish the border before she’d had enough. Landon isn’t quite ready for this size puzzle but every once in awhile he’ll jump up and say he’s found a piece (usually it’s one he pulls out that’s already been fitted, and he claims it as his own!). So, that leaves Tony and I, and between the two of us we’ve got about half done.

Luckily we have that storm blowing in tomorrow and we’ll have plenty of time to finish!

adventurous

Here is another page I finished recently, another page about snow:

These are all photo’s of Zoe sledding. She has as much fun sledding as anyone I’ve ever known! I swear both of my kids can and will spend hours and hours out sledding and playing in all that white stuff. Good thing too since we had another good snow last night and the kids were our of school again today. At this rate we are going to be in school until August!