Monday, November 24, 2008

Long lost brother returns today!

My amazingly talented brother is returning to the US today after a 3 year stint in Japan. We are so excited to be spending Thanksgiving with him and my parents. We are also ecstatic that he'll be staying in the Raleigh area in the weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Right now I'm planning on lots of story telling, Wii playing, movie watching, eating, eating and more eating.

Right now (7:30ish am) he's in flight from Toyko to Atlanta (where my parents will pick him up). Delta airlines has a cool flight tracker thingie with details. Since I'm such a nerd I wanted to share the details of his long journey.

His current flight status - (as I blog)


He's flying on a sweet Boeing 777 - 6,831 miles over 12 hours and 15 minutes. He left Toyko at 4:30pm (local time - about 2:30am EST) and will arrive in ATL around 2:45 this afternoon!

I have to wait until Wednesday night to see him - I just can't wait!!!

Friday, November 21, 2008

Snow update

Yeah, so as expected, there is no remaining snow to see. It's sunny (and COLD) outside. If you want to see more SNOW pictures check out WRAL.com's coverage. You *might* even see a familiar picture in their slideshow...

Slideshow: http://www.wral.com/weather/image_gallery/4001718/

Coverage: http://www.wral.com/weather/story/4001687/

Familiar picture? :) http://www.wral.com/golo/image/4002301/ (right now it is 49 out of 99 in the show)

More snow (and pictures!)

It does feel kinda wrong to not only be talking about snow, but posting pictures of it while my 'fall theme' still covers the blog. Oh well! This morning I listened to Christmas music on the radio as I drove through an early "winter wonderland."

Ok, so it wasn't the most exciting snowfall, but it is November, NOVEMBER, and the ground was covered in white! Well, it was dusted in white. It was exciting for me!

My first view of the stuff, around 6am

I stood in disbelief at the front door thinking, is this some kind of crazy pregnancy dream?



I figured it would stop and melt soon, so I took a few more before breakfast

Those strange green things growing are bulbs - they're terribly confused on what season we're in.

However, it did not stop and the sun rose so we could enjoy the wintery sight!




Yes, I am well aware that you probably need to squint and use your imagination to see the snow in these pictures, but in person, it was beautiful!



At this point I was starting to run late for work...

So I hopped in my snow covered car and hit the road.

I found some traffic, boo! But I also found more snow covered scenes. I thankfully did not crash!



Once I arrived in Raleigh proper, the snow was pretty much gone and there was very little on the ground. It made for a fun morning as I haven't actually driven in falling snow in a long, long time. I'm not sure if the 2 small snowfalls we've seen this week bear any indication of what we may see this winter. I'm tempted to get a snow shovel just in case!

A picture explains it all



More to come...

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

SNOW FLURRY SIGHTING

YES, I AM YELLING! Ok, so it's not that exciting, but seriously, I have spotted our first frozen precipitation of the 2008-09 winter season! It is bitterly cold today (for November) but I can handle the cold with little flurries in the air!

Today's forcast:

Chance of Snow - 30% chance of precipitation
Tuesday afternoon-
Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of snow showers. Breezy with highs in the lower 40s. Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.


WRAL story on the cold: http://www.wral.com/weather/story/3979936/

A little annoucement

It's time for us to share a little update on our lives. As you've probably noticed we've been slack with updating the blog. Ok, so there have been plenty of slack blog times over the past few years, but this time I have a reason! We've been a little preoccupied with a new addition coming to our lives next spring...


NestBaby Pregnancy Ticker

The Oldmarrieds are starting a family!!! Finally!

Ok, back to your regularly scheduled programming. I'll try to add a few updates later, promise.

Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Election Day is here!



And we voted! Well, actually we voted early, but still, our votes are in. Is yours?