Last week our friend Sam took the bus from NYC to PVD to visit us. We all love Sam, and I love that Sam loves good food. We went out to a few great restaurants while he was here that we hadn't gotten around to eating at before. One restaurant was voted as having the best Mac&Cheese in the USA, so of course we had to try it. All the food we ate during the week was divine. If there is one thing Providence knows how to do right, it's food. Eating out with two tiny kids isn't the easiest thing in the world, but having another adult there made it much more worth it.

Other than eating out, we mostly just hung out in the house. We watched Ghost Busters and I made Slimer popcorn. Now Atlas keeps watching it over and can't stop singing the song.

I've been making all sorts of delicious things lately. These are possibly our new favorite dessert, Blueberry Marscapone and Creme Fraiche Hand Pies. Mmm, so good.

And of course, when we watched Ghostbusters II we made pink slime popcorn!

This weekend has been extra exciting with Nemo the blizzard. I can honestly say this was the craziest severe weather I have experienced. There were hurricane force winds blowing the snow, so the snow stuck to everything. This is our window. We are on the 2nd floor.

The day the storm hit was pretty calm in the morning. I was just exited Nick had the day off teaching and the whole city was basically shut down. We started the day off with some delicious pancakes and hung out waiting for the storm to hit. It was pretty uneventful.

Until the power went out. Which means the heat was out, our refrigerator was out, everything was out. It got cold really fast and was pitch black, but it was almost bed time so we just got ready by dragging Atlas's mattress onto the floor in our room, then read some books by flashlight and all cuddled in for the night. When we woke up there was still no power, and it wasn't too big of a deal as long as we stayed bundled up, (mostly just extremely boring) but it got dark around 5:00. I was making dinner by candle light and it was just about ready when the lights came back on. Nick, Atlas and I cheered so loudly that it woke up Cosby and made him cry. Our house was still warming up so we spent another night all bundled together.

The icicles are all crooked in every which way because of the crazy winds. There was even thunder and lightning during the storm. The snow is 2-3 feet deep, and there are now giant snow piles everywhere cause people have been shoveling. Our road still isn't ploughed. There is probably a good foot of packed snow on it. I just saw someone snowmobile down it a moment ago. Our cars are totally stuck. We aren't going anywhere for a while.

Atlas made his first snow(blob)man. His name is Sharpshooter. Bixler kept trying to eat his carrot nose.

Church was cancelled today. Traveling is still impossible for most. It was actually illegal to drive during the storm. People went crazy right before. I went to the store to make sure we were stocked up and there was literally no milk, no bread and no batteries to be found. A lot of gas stations ran out of gas. There are still a lot of people without power and heat and there have already been a few casualties. I am grateful that Nemo didn't do us too much damage and pray for the people still in need.