Deja vu? October Storm

Two years ago, we lived in Buffalo, NY. Known for its crazy lake-effect snow, it's not unheard of to get two feet of snow in 24 hours - but not in mid-October! Many of you may recall getting emails from me describing the carnage that storm had on Buffalo. Half of the trees had their limbs torn off. Most of Buffalo didn't have power for over a week. Crazy. Well, fast-forward two years and here we are again. This time we're in Billings, MT. We just got 22 inches of snow this past weekend. Fortunately, it was a "slow" accumulation over 3 days. Plus, Billings doesn't really have trees so the there was very little damage relative to what we saw two years ago. Either way, I guess we have to beware the Ides of October now.

On a positive note, Grandma Patti and Pop Pop were in town this weekend. As always, it was a lot of fun and Ava got totally spoiled. All my closets are organized, laundry done and house vacuumed. Chris is on a terrible OB call schedule (24 on/24 off), but somehow managed to spend a decent amount of time with us. Unfortunately, the weather really kept us from doing anything too exciting so most of the weekend was the grandparents gooing and gaaing with the babe. We did watch several movies and lots of football. (By the way, WHAT is up with the Patriots! Disgusting...) We dropped them off this morning and now we're just hanging out.