Snowmageddon Came and Went

Greetings from a fantastic weekend in the Pacific Northwest. Though our snow has melted now, it has been quite a week! These photos are from my Dad's medical office (in Olympia, WA). They got a bit more snow than we did 3 hours away but we were colder, with temperatures down to 9 degrees.

Luckily, Heritage Family Medicine has one all purpose family practice doctor - turns out, he's pretty handy with an excavator too! That's Grandpa Faiola clearing the parking lot so his patients could park and walk without slipping and sliding. We were all impressed with his can-do-it attitude and as it turns out, he's got mad skills with heavy machinery. Go figure. Even with that, he experienced a pretty massive drop in patients so they had a very quiet week.

Someone stayed wonderful and warm, thanks to an amazing knitted hat from our retail store manager, Kat (the very talented soapmaker behind all the swirled soap at Otion's blog here). The hat is from The New Project on Etsy and they have the most adorable knitted tights, knitted hats and knitted shorties. I think these Dino Longies are seriously off the cute charts. Proving that talent and generosity does run in the family, The New Project is run by Kat's sister, Leanne, who donates all the profits to NICU centers to help newborns in need.

Though Jamisen does have quite a lovely snow outfit (with gloves and booties too!), we did not make it out in the snow. It was either too cold, or it was snowing and ridiculously windy so we'll make it out next time. Jamisen's Grandpa on his Daddy's side was a ski instructor for many years so cold and snow is in his blood and I'm betting he's going to love outdoor, winter sports.

Chris just made it home safely from Saudi Arabia  where he was setting up a branch office for his family engineering firm, FSE. He had to pay for an entire year's rent in CASH up front. It was quite an interesting experience for him. He also got a flat in the middle of the dessert, in a suit. He is sooooo thankful for the hospitality and kindness of the Saudis who helped him change the flat.  Snowmageddon wrecked havoc with his flights and his flight to Seattle was canceled so he ended up taking almost an entire 20 hours to make it home to us and he is more exhausted than usual - but of course, thrilled to see his baby boy Jamisen. Jamisen missed his Dad terribly - there wasn't nearly as much laughing in this house in the last week - we're all glad he is home.