This State Sucks...But The People In It Are Pretty Awesome...

Seriously, I feel like MN weather has been snowing on my plans parade ever since winter began!  Today the kids and I went to Faribault to drop off all of the gifts/donations to Ruth's House...I'm not kidding when I say we must've passed about 20 cars in the ditch...including two semi-trucks.  I probably shouldn't have even been out but I don't watch the news so I didn't know the weather (Chris mentioned something about working from home because of the snow but I just assumed he wanted a reason to work from home =) ...and by the time we'd seen our 10th car, we were half way there...anyway, what should have taken about an hour there and back ended up taking 3 hours...because we were driving about 20-40 miles an hour the whole way...I didn't feel comfortable going any faster than that!  Anyway, my point, is that I've never felt as interrupted in my plans during my entire 15 years of living here than I have this year.  And it's starting to irritate me.  I just need to cancel any remaining plans that I have for the next 5 months and hang out with my babies!

Speaking of babies, here are a few recent pics...Adler is turning into the perfect little model...whoever said that the later born children never have any pictures of themselves alone? 

Someone's getting ready for Christmas...



In a big way...









Have you ever seen a cuter elephant?


I think not!




George and Martha Washington's baby boy???


Nope, it's just a cute little panda!




I'll leave you with Ayris' conversation this morning:

Ayris:  I'm ready for spring, so I can pick you and daddy some flowers. 
Me:  Yeah, me too.  This weather sucks.
Ayris:  Yeah, the snow has killed the flowers.
Ayris:  And the snow has killed the sun.

Hahaha.  The snow has killed the sun.  The snow is definitely killing the light in my life these days! 

One last thing...RJ calls me last night because he has "big news" and asks me if I want to guess what it is...I guess that he's pregnant...well, Andrea's pregnant.  So he tells me that she's pregnant with triplets and asks if I'll watch the triplets after they're born while they go on some trip...I immediately say yes, without even hesitating...which seemed to bewilder him...why in the world would I want to watch 6 kids all at once?!?  Um hello...triplets???  Yes please!  Unfortunately the loser was just joking!  BUT FORTUNATELY, the big news was that he and Andrea are moving back to MN...yea!  So, I guess I'm not going to be an aunt anytime soon but my brother is coming home...and that's a good thing =)