Toughest Weather City

http://www.weather.com/outlook/weather-news/news/articles/americas-toughest-weather-city-final4_2011-03-24

Please go to this website, from the Weather.com
Since it is the NCAA basketball brackets, the weather channel picked the 64 toughest weather cities in America and have had their own bracket contest, the winner is the one who has received the most votes.

Well Bradford, Pa, our hometown is in the finals verses Fargo, ND. We need your help to vote. You can vote multiple times from the same computer but it eventually catches on and locks you out. Bradford had 14,000 votes in the semifinals, and Fargo had 17,000. So we need everyone to vote multiple times for Bradford!!!

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Luke's Cave

well the past few days have been full of sickness in our household. Graham started it with the babysitter on Wednesday, and it has gone through everyone except me. Luke typically sleeps like the picture here to the Left, in his CAVE, with the 3 giant animals surrounding him.




Last night around 11, he started screaming and we found him standing in his bed, after he had vomited. The giant reindeer, Reuben, had taken one for the team. He got his first bath in at least 11 years. He felt so soft and fresh!!! Luke laid down a little today, but otherwise seemed totally fine.
So after about an hour, it happened again, only this time, he hit the giant bear and the reindeer. So there are 2 big baths going on tonight, as well as the sheets and clothes and everything.


There is still a giant polar bear left that has not had a bath yet. I am really hoping he doesn't get one tomorrow!!!

Monstersaurus Rex

When Eli was 3 months old, he had a shirt called Mommy's little Monster. Since that time he has developed the nickname, Eli Monster. Sometimes he lives up to the name, and sometimes he is an angel. When he has his ear infections, he is a little bit of a monster. After our recent bout with Ear infections, where he cried from 9-12 and then from 3-5 if not being held, (yes this is in the night time), Joe went and made him a shirt naming him Monstersaurus Rex. We still love our little Monster though!!.

Luke's 4th Birthday

Tomorrow is Luke's birthday, but if you ask him, his birthday was today! We had a full house with Mimi, Grandma and Grandpa Meier, Daly, and our neighbors Jack and Sylvia, plus Erin from PNG on the computer.



Luke is really into airplanes and he wanted a stealth bomber cake.
I did the best I could, as you can see below.















Everyone had a good time. Luke enjoyed all his presents including his "air con crafterier " which translates to air craft carrier, and the airplanes. Plus his cool bike from Mimi, and the helmet and wonderfully loud horn for the bike from Aunt Erin. He also had a good time with the transformer tank that battled his planes, and his hockey set!!

Happy Birthday Luke, We love you!!!

Children's Museum

It is Luke's birthday weekend. Mary came into town and we all headed down to Pittsburgh to the Children's Museum.













The boys enjoyed making paper out of cotton, painting, and playing in the water the most!










They also found a plane and enjoyed putting cars down the ramp. We had a good day.

What you say, What they hear

This weekend, I was taking a meal to a friend who just had surgery. Joe was outside playing with Luke and Graham, so I took Eli with me. As I was getting ready Luke asked where I was going. I said I was going to "run an errand".

Well I come home an hour later and he asked "where is aunt erin?"
I said she is in papua new guinea. He said, but you said you were going to "run aunt erin", so he assumed I was going to see Aunt Erin. Unfortunately that did not happen and he was very disappointed that Aunt Erin wasn't coming home or to his birthday party!!