Girl Scout Cookies & Las Vegas Snowstorm

Anna delivering cookies before the snow
If it is February, it can only mean three things: 

1.  Girl Scout Cookies Arrive
2.  Joe goes to Las Vegas
3.  We have a snowstorm.

It should be noted that items number 2 and 3 on the list usually occur at the same time.  This year was no exception, although the timing of the snowstorm was a bit off.

Girl Scout cookies arrived on February 9.  Thanks to Anna's work walking the neighborhood, she sold almost 200 boxes of cookies.  Theresa once again served as cookie mom, which meant on February 9 over 2,000 boxes of cookies arrived at the house for distribution (Anna has a lot of budding sales women in her troop).  The Fagella house served as the distribution center with parents arriving throughout the day to pick up orders.  This still left 600 boxes of cookies to store at the house for booth sales and to deliver to the USO for donations.  Let's just say Anna and her Mom carried A LOT of boxes to the laundry room for storage.

Joe is home to shovel!
February 9 also marked Joe's departure for his annual work trip to Las Vegas (he missed the girl scout cookie extravaganza).  Joe's trips are legendary in the neighborhood as they usually coincide with the major snowstorm of the season.  This year, the curse was broken as the snowstorm stayed north (sorry Boston).  Fortunately Joe made it home before the snowstorm hit on February 17.  Theresa was quite happy he was here to shovel, although it was only 5 inches of light powder as opposed to the 12-15 inches of heavy, wet snow that Theresa usually gets to shovel when Joe is out of town.

Anna was thrilled to have an extra long weekend and spent the morning sledding with friends at the neighborhood hill.  Washington was closed today (that's right - 4-5 inches of snow paralyzes the city), so we are waiting to see if school is on for tomorrow since more snow is predicted.

In the meantime, Anna may need to put the rest of her girl scout cookies on a sled to deliver.....


Anna & Aidan enjoy sledding on their day off

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