The Wedding Dance

For those of you that know Colleen and me, you know we've always enjoyed dancing, especially at weddings/events, etc. Though we don't get the opportunity to do that much anymore, it seems the enjoyment we get from dancing has rubbed off on our kids. If you haven't heard of the JK wedding dance, it was a YouTube sensation for a while, where a wedding party dances down the aisle instead of the traditonal approach, and the first video below is their video, which our kids request to watch (and dance to) most nights. Our kids are copying all the dance moves from this video.

Also, just to clarify, at about the 3 minute mark of our video, you see Titus sticking out his tummy and trying to bend back. To understand what he is doing, you have to watch the original video at the same point, and you'll see a man standing on his feet but leaning back and laying almost completely horizontal, despite the fact he is still standing.

You can actually watch both videos at the same time and if you can sync them at the same time, it gives you the full effect. To sync them, start the orginal video first, and about at the 28 second mark of that video, start the kids video, and then mute one of the videos so that the audios don't mess each other up.

Snow, snow, and more snow.

The below pictures are a sampling of some of the pictures we've taken over the past two weeks. I don't know how much snow we ended up getting, but it started with 2 feet, then a couple days later we got another 10 inches on top of that, followed by what seemed like a couple inches about every day for the next several days. I'll start off with a few pictures of Lydia since she isn't in any of the outside photos.

Yes, she's licking up some sort of liquid on the dishwasher. She is enamored with the door.

Lots of standing (and falling), but no steps yet.

Our baby is growing up.

Lots of smiles for momma.

This picture you can actually see her two bottom teeth, the only two she has so far.

Snowball fight!

Not to be outdone by her little brother.

Tromping through the snow, although he was light enough that he didn't sink in like the rest of us.

He seemed to skim right along the top of the snow for the most part.

We don't have great sledding hills on the property, but good enough for the little ones.

Titus pulling the sled back up the hill.

Almost.....there.....just....a......little......farther......

Needless to say, they quite enjoy their time in the snow.

The sled is obviously not moving as fast as she would have preferred.

So we moved on to snowman building.

A team project for the three of us.

They're becoming quite proficient at building snowmen with the winter we've had.

The builders posing with their hard work.

Titus working on the nose. He didn't want to dig for rocks, so he tried to use a snowball.

Some of the snow piles left over in our parking lot.

The kids are slightly dwarfed. As much as we are ready for spring, we also realize it will likely be a long time before we see this much snow again, so we're also trying to enjoy it when we can make it outside.

I don't think the kids quite realized how much the snow was truly built up.

A particularly big chunk left over by the plows.

Katelyn almost completely engulfed by the snow.

We had built some tunnels in the snow piles that you could actually crawl through. This picture was a few days later after the tunnels had caved in some.

A picture one morning after a snow.

Enjoying more time on the snow piles.

No need to make snowballs when you have chunks like this sitting around.

This was our road the morning after the 2 feet of snow.

The big snow piles were obviously a big hit with our kids.

Another picture the morning after the big snow. I shoveled out a lane to get to the van, and as you can see, the snow is almost up to Titus's shoulders.

Katelyn burying herself in the snow, a task that is not very difficult with this much snow.

This was a picture taken out of our basement door, as the main door was completely drifted over and couldn't be opened. Yes, that is our Honda mini-van in the picture, and as you can see (or not see), my Toyota, which is parked on the far side of the van, is completely under snow. Combine 2 feet of snow with a decent wind, and you get drifts that look like this.

Another picture the morning after the big snow, shortly after the snow plow had come through. The nice thing about the big snow was as soon as it finished, bright sunshine and blue skies came in and we ended up spending most of the afternoon enjoying this once in a decade (or once every 25 years?) snow.

Snow, snow, snow

We're currently in the process of getting one of the bigger snow storms Pgh has had in a while. We've gotten probably upwards of 20 inches in about 12 hours and the storm has yet to end, so when all is said and done, I'm guessing some areas will be upwards of 2 feet. It's the most snow I've ever seen since we got 36 inches of snow on Christmas day in Walton in 2001 (? I think that was the year).

Anyway, these pictures were taken a couple of weeks ago from the last big snow that we had (only 10 inches compared to this weekend's snow, though). They were taken over two days, at dusk on one night and then the following day when it was sunny. Colleen took all the pictures. The icicles you see were hanging off our gutter and Colleen was able to snap a couple pictures that caught the melting drips. The first one was taken at dusk, and the others were taken during the following day when there was more light. I think they are pretty cool. We really like our camera and some of the closeups and quality pictures it captures.

Colleen put Lydia in her car seat and put a blanket over her, and she seemed content to take a nap.

Katelyn posing.

Titus working on the snowman. Colleen was able to get an upwards angle of him.

Titus and Katelyn giving their snowman a little love.

I think they were both proud of their work.

I know mommy helped with it some, but the two kids did the bulk of the work.

Titus trying to do his part to keep the driveway clear.

This is one of my favorite pictures with the sunset in the background and Titus neatly following Katelyn in the plowed area.

Think everyone was having a good time?

Red nose and red cheeks, but it didn't seem to faze him.

Once of those closeups that we really like with our camera, runny nose and all.

You can't play in the snow without making a snow angel.

Katelyn's attempt at one. She's done it a few more times than Titus has.

Titus was excited when he first stumbled across the neighbors lawn mower in the snow. He loves to push the thing around, but quickly realized that was not going to happen in 10 inches of snow, much to his displeasure.

Here he is trying to pull the mower through the snow, without much success.

Here he is when he first uncovered the mower.

Lydia again snoozing under the blanket.

Can you tell we like the color pink?

Katelyn attempted a snowman the first day, but had better success when the sun was out and the snow was a little wetter the following day.

Another one of the closeups we like. It picks up the snow in his face as he tries to turn away from the wind.

His poor strap doesn't quite stretch over his chin, although I wonder if he likes it that way as it gives his mouth a little coverage.