The biggest news on our side of the planet is that we are (finally) engaged! We have not set a date yet, but the biggest step is out of the way. I'm sure you are all wondering what extravagant method I used to ask her, but I really didn't. She got her ring Christmas morning, and it's pretty, if I say so myself.
Layla is doing so great; this kid is such a gem! She still sleeps through the night, though she's taken to knocking out late-- around 12 or 1am, which is kind of tough when Carrie has those early morning shifts, but we're making it work. Carrie is an awesome mama.Layla is learning so fast. She's really developed a great personality. She's not even scared of Cole, which says a lot. We haven't taken her out a whole lot around town, other than to the store and occasionally to go to our parents' homes, but we'd love to see you happy folks, so give us a call. You're welcome to stop by (but call first; I tend to work in my underwear).
We had our first taste of nasty winter weather over the last couple of days. It was a lot of ice and freezing rain, and when that stuff gets to be an inch thick it makes it mighty hard to clear off the steps. Of course, I ran out of salt, so it's down to chipping away at my stairs. Good times... not.Our power has been browning out; never down 100%, but it has flubbed enough to flash the computers and cable box. Fortunately, we've been up with power and cable, so I've been able to continue to work. There is a firetruck and such up the road now clearing live wires from the road, and i'm worried that one of my big trees in the front yard could snap. Frankly, I'm cool with that; i wanted to trim it up anyway. Hopefully our power will stay up; there's about 100,000 customers with no power in our area, and it could take a while to get them back up.
We took Layla out in the snow/ice yesterday to put her cute snow suit to use. She didn't mind it much, but there wasn't really any snow to play in, just ice, so Carrie held her for a few pics and then it was time to go back in. It's not warming up, and it's realllllly cold in the shade! The ice is thick enough that I can walk across my yard without it breaking, and that pretty much sums up how futile my efforts were at clearing the steps and sidewalk. Sigh...Time to get back to work, but felt I needed to post an update to our situation. Hope you're all warm and happy!
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