Oh... Just a Little Rain Here and There

So... life has been a little crazy lately! With Hurricane Sandy, Halloween and a everyday life.... we've been a bit busy.

I generally try to update this weekly when Noah is 'one week older' so I can remember to take a picture and then post it on here... it works out well. However on his '4th' week... oh you know, only the PERFECT STORM called Sandy was pounding half of the east coast - so I decided to lay off the computer and leave it charged for as long as possible in case the power went out.

4 weeks old!

Needlessly to say, we were fortunate enough to not lose power during the storm. The most damage that happened on our property were a few down branches and one of our cornstalks on our front porch went wonky (Alex was truly upset at the cornstalks haha). Because I am a little OCD, neurotic at times and oh just a bit hormonal - we were ready for the hurricane, and then some. So I wasn't worried about that, I was more concerned about trees falling down with the wind. That is something that is 100% out of my control and I'm not a fan of that. Again, fortunately nothing happened to us. Both neighbors to our left had two large trees down - none damaging to their houses, just left huge holes in their yards. My parents made at well in Easton (about 25 minutes from where Alex & I live), they never lost power either. My sister & her family stayed in a hotel over the bridge - power was lost there and Bryan almost got stuck in the elevator (can we say thank gawdddd he didnt?!), however they came home as soon as possible and all was well in the end :)

Once the rain and winds died down, we decided to scope out the town to see how Sandy treated everyone else. And really, nothing happened that we haven't seen before here with a hurricane or strong storm. There was flooding and downed trees - and from what I've read on Facebook some flooding in houses - but we really lucked out being that we live on an Island that sinks like an inch a year. We were very, very  fortunate.

Almost everywhere you see water in these next few pictures - not supposed to be there!

Tree that fell down just outside my sister and their neighbors yard! 

After a surprise visit to my sisters (the three of us totally bombarded them pretty much the moment they got home), a beat-up Uncle Alex session, an amazing brunch at Cracker Barrel... we carved pumpkins! Halloween was the next night after all.

Bryan & Melissa's (Funny Face), Elijah's (Wreck It Ralph), Ella's (Spider), Alex's (Jack Skeleton), Noah's (Alien from Toy Story), Elyse's (Funny Face), and mine (a CUTE face!)