New Year's Fun

Today was New Year Day and my mom planed to go see my cousins. It was really a lot of fun and here is how my day went.

My cousin's name is Noah and I went to see him at his family vacation home in Vernon NJ. The place is called Black Creek and has many townhouse building's next to each other. We got there and he opened his Christmas presents while I fixed one of his Legos. Then we went outside to play, because the weather was so nice and warm. You can go skiing in Vernon, but there was no snow on the ground, so we were able to play in the backyard. His sisters came outside too. Noah's sisters names are Eva and Alessia. We all played a game: the girls were at the fireplace and Noah and I were at the patio. While we played their dog Kevin was watching us from the windows.

We played for an hour then we all went inside. We all had a snack. My mom made Oreo cookies brownies and there were delicious. My parents and Noah's parents were talking so we went in the bedroom and watched some TV. The girls had balloons and they kept throwing them at us. I had to jump off their bed and get the balloons, because they were going up into the ceiling.

At six o'clock, my family and I left to go home. I really had fun with my cousin.

WHITE HALLOWEEN ANYONE?

My yard before the snowstorm

The weather is really getting strange. We had an earthquake, a hurricane, a tropical storm and a snowstorm in October!

Last Saturday, I came home after the coin drop for my soccer team, and I took a picture of my yard before the snow started to come down.  The yard was green with a lot of leaves that my dad did not have the time to rake. I wanted to chronicle this strange weather.
 

The snow started to fall down.

I could not believe that a snowstorm was coming, but, soon snowflakes were coming down and slowly slowly the yard became all white. I kept on taking pictures throughout the afternoon to see how much snow we were going to get. The snow was quite heavy and would stick everywhere. The handrail on my stairs was covered with snow.
 

The snow kept on coming down.

The morning after, I got a big surprise when I saw how much snow there was on the ground. We got probably 16 inches of heavy wet snow. The bushes in my yard were covered and bended because the snow was really very heavy. It was so heavy that branches broke off and fell on the wires. We even lost power for three days.

Look at the handrails on my stairs!!

 

 We received 16 inches of snow before Halloween. Do you think we are going to get a lot of snow this winter? I sure hope so!

HAPPY 2012!

Wishing you all a wonderful New Year!