Oh, the weather outside is frightful...

Hello, all! You know its going to be a bad snowstorm when meteorologists are using the words "historic" and "crippling". Those words are music to the ears of the Milin household. We are going to be baking, sledding, and generally just playing in the snow today. We already have between 6 to 8 inches on the ground (its hard to tell with all the drifting), and its supposed to keep snowing through tonight.

Hope everyone is having fun! In the meantime, its been a really, *really* long time since I posted anything (I blame facebook), so here are some pictures of the last 6 months for our family to get everyone up to speed.

Nate the nice guy

On Friday, when I picked Nate up from school, his friends were teasing him a bit because he has a girlfriend in his class who bosses him around. Her name is Amanda and she is the tiniest, blondest girl in the clas. Actually, he has 3 or 4 girlfriends total, I can't keep count. When I was leaving, I ran into Amanda's mom in the hallway who told me a funny story. Amanda was telling her two older sisters her boyfriend (Nate) was really great, but was complaining that he had several other lady friends. Her older sister said that Amanda needed to drop him and pick another boy to be her girlfriend so that he could spend more time with her. Amanda said that she couldn't pick another boy because Nate is the only nice boy in the class!!

Ha ha ha! Does that remind you all of anyone in the family? Maybe we all will be lucky and he will grow up to be just like PT. They already have the same mannerisms and similar sense of humor, as you can see in the photo below from a few years ago. :)

Hellooooo, summer!

I don't know if it is global warming or not, but, just like last year, we went from 60 degree weather to 90 in about a week. Goodbye, spring, Hello, summer! We are actually really enjoying the warmth and love spending the entire day outside. The kids are sure ready for bed earlier than usual. Hope that everyone else in Nova is enjoying the heat!

Spring is here!

It is pouring rain outside yet the sun is shining bright. Boy, do I love the spring!!

ACK! A dinosaur is coming to get me!!!

A life-size King Kong whose hand you can sit it. An epic battle between a tyrannosaurus rex and a triceratops. Who knew that you could walk around such things in a little town just outside of Berryville, VA, which is in of itself the very definition of a small town. But Nate and Anna had a blast, as you can tell from these photos....

A wide grin minus one tooth

Nate's wobbly tooth fell out last weekend while we were sitting around our firepit. He was noshing on some food when suddenly, he felt something hard in his mouth. And guess what he did?!?! He threw his tooth into the fire! We sifted through the ashes trying to find it, but no luck. It is gone forever. Luckily the tooth fairy is one understanding lady and accepted a picture of a tooth in flames instead. Now I am totally digging his gap-toothed grin!

Whoa! Too many milestones!!

Two firsts in the Milin household has occurred in the last few weeks. First, Anna has been going off-and-on on the big potty. Yesterday at school she told her teachers and they were able to take her across the hall to the 2's room which has a potty. She could totally be potty trained, but unfortunately her room at school doesn't come equipped with a bathroom so she has to wait until she moves up hopefully in a few months. But a 1 1/2 year old who is ready to be potty trained is pretty cool! Second, Nate is losing his first baby tooth! He's very excited to meet a tooth fairy. I'll be sure to post a picture of his gap-tooth grin once it actually falls off!!