Blizzards and Wedding Showers



Now that its 50 degrees outside, I feel the need to document the awesome snow storm we had last week. We never get enough snow to make me happy about winter - damn global warming! Anyway, it snowed all day on Tuesday until we had 14 inches to play in. The university closed Tuesday and Wednesday as well as Jeff's office so we had REAL snow days. I had to coerce Jeff into playing in the snow. He'd have stayed inside all day without enjoying it but I did manage to get him out in the cold on the premise of shoveling the drive way. The only disappointment - the lack of topographical relief here means no good sledding.

I also went to Julie's wedding shower last weekend. I really like the way she and her girlfriends from high school do the shower thing in their group. Rather than playing silly shower games, they all get together and make a scrapbook for special girl - not to mention drink, eat and hang out. We each made scrapbook pages for Julie of our life's milestone (ie. weddings, babies, graduation, crazy high school and college memories with Julie). At the end of the shower, Julie got this great scrapbook full of pictures from all her friends. Now, I am definitely not the scrapbook making type but I am totally willing to put that aside for one of my best friends because she'll get so much enjoyment out of the end product. While I'm passing along idea's, for baby shower's they paint onesies for the new baby. Is this idea worthy of Real Simple or what?

The coolest chic environmental engineers...knit while watching the Superbowl


After a two month hiatus from my blog, I finally have a good picture and the motivation to post. We had our annual Superbowl party last weekend. It's one of the few times a year where the men and women in our little social circle assume our stereotypical gender roles. The husbands watch the game on the fancy high definition TV downstairs in Jeff's man land where they drink beer, grunt, and talk about how amazing HD sports + surround sound can be. The wives watch the commercials upstairs and have girl talk. I could say we watched the kid but she spent most of the night in man land with the cats and fish so it wasn't totally Donna Reed...but we made our best 21st century effort with an impromptu knitting circle during the game. Cathy has been knitting furiously since her recently foot surgery landed her on the couch for a few weeks, no walking allowed. Rachel got her first knitting lesson while she was on Cathy-care duty the day of the surgery and the lessons continued during the game. Its too bad getting a PhD is only a temporary lay over, allbeit a long one, which means we're gonna be spread all over the country pretty soon. Cathy will be the first to leave our little college town for bigger, better things in Boston. Its hard to believe we've been here for more than five years already but I guess we all have to join the real world at some point. Some of us have just been really good at avoiding it for a long time. Three cheers for graduate school!