Baby, It's Cold Outside

Starting around 1 am Saturday morning, it began to snow!! The snow didn't stop until 8 am Sunday and left us with a little over twenty inches!! It was very exciting to see that much snow. Unfortunately, we have two exams on Monday so instead of playing in the snow we had to watch it from Drexel's library :( Alex bought snow boots Friday night for our trip to Minnesota so he was super prepared for the snow.

Saturday morning


Making a snow angel!


The long, cold trek to Drexel


Snow Monkey


Dedication (to our last two exams!)


Studying during the snow storm!


Leaving school for the night


Our stairs (12 more hours of snow fell on them after this picture)


Snow on our window


Car out front


Front yard


Sunday morning

The cold path to school.


Look how deep!!!


Covered car outside of school


Only person at school when I got there :)

Christmas Cookies

Instead of spending the evening in cadaver lab studying the course of the recurrent laryngeal nerve like a good student, I decided to make stained glass cookies! I used the neat cookie cutters mommy got us last year from Williams Sonoma. They would have turned out great if I hadn't put wax paper under them... the candy has permanently stuck to the paper :( Despite the unfortunate taste of wax when biting into the candy part of the cookie, the cookies are really pretty! I think next time when I don't have thoughts of pectinate muscles dancing in my head, I will frost the cookies and make them look even better.

Pre-baking!


The cookies look like stained glass windows!




These were the prettiest!

Let it Snow!

We had our first snow in Philadelphia this past Saturday!! It was very exciting even though it only snowed one inch. I was shadowing in the ER during all of the snow madness and was able to see lots of neat things and even assisted in putting on a cast! It is supposed to snow again Tuesday night and we can't wait!

Tacky Sweater Christmas Party

Last night, we went to a Tacky Sweater Christmas Party downtown. It was part of a Toys for Tots event, although we were bad and didn't bring any toys. It was fun seeing a bunch of Drexel people in their crazy sweaters!

Tacky family picture


Jason, Hilary, Kia, Danielle and me in our tacky sweaters!


Alex and Joseph

We are Getting Coal for Christmas

So Alex and I will be getting coal for Christmas because we have a way-before-Christmas-gift-opening problem... we opened our presents from Janet and Bruce! Turns out, though, it was a totally good decision!!! Alex got a sweet Burton hoodie and I got a North Face jacket!! We love them!! With the upcoming Saturday snow *fingers crossed* it was the perfect time to open these presents. And we think we remember a rumor that we were allowed to open these presents early anyway :)



Moo enjoyed the bag of course

Mr. Scheer, Rm 240

Mr. Scheer's classroom in Philly!! Alex is a math teacher at Philadelphia Job Corps. It is a trade school and also a place for students to earn their GED. Who ever thought Mr. French would be teaching ratios and compound interest calculations?!

It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

After all of the turkey was eaten and the black Friday shopping was finished, Alex and I bought our first married Christmas tree! It is a little smaller than last year, but perfect none the less. It definitely helps make our apartment more fit for the season!



Moo getting festive


Alex with his NC State ornament and me with my UNC ornament posing with the NC State-UNC football game on in the background of course... we don't have to mention how it ended.


We decided to open one present each on December 1st to get the holiday season started. Alex got an awesome sweater from his parents!!


And my new hubby got me this beautiful gold Coach purse!!

Thanksgiving

This year for Thanksgiving, we went to Aunt Chrissy and Uncle Paul's house. Both of our parents came too (plus Lisa and Grandma)! It was very fun to have both of our families at the same Thanksgiving feast! The tables were beautiful and the food was excellent :)

Mommy and the pretty table


Colin and I at the kid's table


Lisa and Alex

Moo's New Toy

This is what happens when good cats go bad... they eat your toilet paper. Alex was watching TV when out of the corner of his eye he saw Moo walk by, new toy in her mouth.

Empire State of Mind

Yesterday, we went to NYC with a few friends from school. It is only a $10 ticket on a Chinatown bus! The weather was perfect and the company was great!

We started the day off at Reading Terminal Market while waiting for the bus to arrive. We all had crepes for breakfast!

First NYC subway!


May, Kia, Danielle and us


Kia and Alex with Elmo




Climbing rocks in Central Park!


Alex and his hero


Human skeletons in the weird Evolution store in SOHO


We ran into Mike!!!


Grand Central Station


Alligator hat


Polar bear hat... Alex got this one!


Ice skaters!


Times Square


Donyell and May on Megabus. The bus we took home was a double-decker. We sat in the front row of the second floor and had a great view!


Alex and polar bear on Megabus