Freda and Simon

Thanks for the pictures Ryan, it made my month.

Looks like watching all that cage fighting on TV is paying off!

Kisses after tho, k?

Our First Gift

This is the Christmas present my 22 month old daughter, Freda Lucia McCoy, made at school and gave to her beautiful mother and I this year. My tough guy exterior is shredded by things like this, sending me into a moment of pride so great my eyes leak. This I can admit with zero shame.

Baby got Drums

Climactic ending!

White Christmas!

So much fun and so beautiful.

Woke up to 4 more inches of snow this morning.

Freda got her own snow fort!

White christmas?

Looks like a white Christmas, in some capacity this year. Two more storms lined up between now and xmas for another possible 6" of snow. We ended up with about 9.5 inches at the house. With the winds, it was bare in a couple spots and 4 feet deep in others. We've had a few fires for that warmth only fire can give you. Freda always wants to get nudy when I make fire, it's real cute.

Seems like fall was sooooo long ago...

Oh the NOWES!!!

At least thats what Freda calls it.

Well, it's been quite a weekend. We had crazy North Easterly winds from the arctic and moist air from the north pacific converging on our corner of the state. The Nooksack river started freezing over in places.



We really could not go out in it because of the wind and frigid temps (in the teens). Until finally we got to venture out on Sunday for a few minutes at a time. She gets real upset when we have to go in and warm up. I see a date with hot chocolate coming soon? When we first went out, she was enthralled. I tried to get her to eat some. She resisted. Once she saw me eat some though, she stood there and ate it like it was going somewhere. Then we sat in the snow. That made it alot easier to eat the snow. Bought a litte sled we can pull her around in and she loves it. It's been too cold for a snowman or an igloo, but hopefully we catch it right when it warms back up someday. She is going to be so sad when it melts...







Brainfreeze!

Snow Day

The wind finally stopped blowing but the snow is back. I got Freda up early to take her into school today. It snowed only an inch or so last night but it is snowing heavily today.

Snow princess



Me and mini scoping the road before we head out.



Cute little motel I pass on the way to work in Mt. Vernon

Cabin Fever

We are stuck inside so we play. Man do we have fun.

Playing music

Reading books

Running around crazy

'Wiggin' out

Sitting in pots

Winter Storm 2008

It's pretty crazy out. blowing a constant 45 with gusts to 60 from the arctic NE for 25 hours straight now. It's 19 degrees right now, which puts us right below zero with lows to -11. That wind is so harsh. It snowed saturday and sunday. We took freda out yesterday for groceries and the wind scared her. Honestly, it kinda scares me. You can hear the gusts coming about 5 seconds before they hit. Sticks are breaking off the trees around our house and hitting the roof 24-7. The yard and roof are completly littered with sticks. The heater has been runnig since noon, as this duration of a storm is not typical. I started a fire a few hours ago and we are all cozied up in front of it watching spongebob squarepants. Just got word it's not gonna stop blowing and we are getting more snow Wednesday and then another storm Saturday. High temperatures of 25 degrees and lows of 9 (minus the wind chill) thru to the new year.

the dogs got front row seats

snow saturday night

took this sunday morning before lunch. it was so dark and cold.

Holidays 2008

Well, the holidays are proving to not only be busy, but a little stressful this year. As our family grows, the ease of getting everybody together becomes a little less simple but all that much more rewarding at the same time. We are looking forward to Christmas this year with a might-as-well-be-two year old owning the house anymore. She totally understands who Santa Claus is and what happens when he comes and she is excited. She loves the tree in the house and calls the lights "pretty stars". What a great little person I have to hang out with. Her vocabulary is exploding with two and three word phrases and multiple syllable words starting now. She has started calling me "Charles" as of a week ago. It is really adorable.

Here are a couple of pictures our good friend Lesley Keefer took of my girls.


Cute by the pond


srsly cute