Greg made brownies for the first time on Friday evening for our date night. He added marshmallow cream topping and a lovely chocolate swirl to finish off the very yummy dessert. Just bragging on him a bit for his culinary genius. See for yourself. =)

Freyja is a very little cat. After jumping on the scale with her this weekend, we discovered that at just under one year of age she weighs in at 5 lbs with a full belly. That's right we've got a bag of sugar folks, five pounds, sweet, and packs a punch. This is on the very low end for cats, but she's beautifully proportioned as a little kitty. She most likely has her full sized bone structure in place at this point, so she'll fill in muscle structure over the next six months to a year and then be completely full grown. We love that she'll stay our little kitty. =)

Sorry that it's been so long since my last post. Unfortunately our website server got hit with some kind of something that Greg can better explain that temporarily limited access to our site. After that, Greg strained his lower back and spent a lot of time on the couch, meaning that he's been hogging the laptop. Okay, so maybe hogging isn't the right word, as we do have other computers, but I have been trying to make sure that he is able to relax as much as possible the past week.

So now that the apologies and excuses are out of the way, our big news is that they are calling for more snow this weekend in the DC area. Nothing that's going to stick unfortunately, but snow none the less. And for those who think that we might be sick of snow....not yet. I love snow, and since we don't have to plow streets, clear our own sidewalks, or even go out if the metro isn't running, we're not against some more snow days before the end of March.

Anyway, hope you all are doing well.

So for those who have been wondering. We did survive the Snowpocalypse DC Remix, the original happening last December. Greg and I had a Dr.'s appointment Friday morning, during which the snow started. Wesley had closed for Friday afternoon and Greg worked at home the rest of the day. By about 10:00pm we had about 6 six inches of snow on the ground and enough snow in the bowl on our balcony to make our first batch of snow ice cream for the weekend. It was delicious! And Freyja agreed, even braving strawberry flavoring for a taste and she usually hates fruit.

Saturday we slept in, cuddled up, played video games, took pictures, and watched more snow fall. And it was a great day to bake, so we made challah (bread) and strawberry swirl cheesecake. The challah was wonderful for dinner with some fresh apple and the Irish butter we had splurged on last week.

Sunday was more of the same, chillin' out max and relaxin' all cool...or in this case, warm. We curled up to more video games, reading, and cooking. We made beef stroganoff with egg noodles for lunch. The Super Bowl party we'd planned to attend was cancelled due to lack of parking and plowed streets, so we raided our own refrigerator to pull together a Super Bowl finger food feast complete with cheddar bacon potato skins, pigs in a blanket, pico de gallo guacamole with tortilla chips, and apple slices with caramel. The yummy food, funny commercials, and board games made for an enjoyable way to watch the game.

And for today (Monday), well, Wesley is closed due to poor road conditions and difficulties with snow removal on campus, and Greg is once again working remotely due to the weather. So I'm catching up on writing, correspondence, etc., Greg's working, and Freyja is living it up with a nice nap sprawled out on top of Greg's computer monitor. I'll post pictures from our weekend soon.