It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas!!

This morning, we woke up to a winter wonderland. Except, you don't really want a winter wonderland when you are 17 and need to go to work. At first, I thought it wouldn't be that bad... until I actually looked out the window.

This is the top six inches of our fence...everything else = buried...

White out conditions...

For someone who is not too fond of snow, I AM LIVING IN THE WRONG PLACE!!! Last year our house got completely buried in the snow several times, and this year is promising to be more of the same.

Fortunately, we have AWESOME neighbors who love us very much. One came with a 4-wheeler-snowplow, another came with an actual little truck-snowplow (seen below), and another had his massive loader to dig out a stuck car.

The finished product. It's snowed fairly consistently the entire day, but our driveway has stayed clean since our loving neighborhood dug us out. What you can't see is the six-foot tall mound of cleared snow to the right. At least we know that won't melt anytime soon!

Unfortunately, though, I did not make it into work. Maybe tomorrow, though...

Christmas - IT'S COMING!!!!

I absolutely LOVE this time of year! There's snow on the ground, lots of shopping to do, new Christmas cards coming every day in the mail, amazing smells coming from the kitchen - what more could you ask for?? For the first time, I actually knew what I wanted to get everyone for Christmas and am now totally done with my Christmas shopping!! If you know how much I procrastinate in EVERYTHING in my life, you know just how amazing this is for me. =D Morgan and Zane ask everynight as we're getting ready for bed if it's the night that Santa's coming. Only a few more days!!!

I AM ALIVE!!! ... and Basketball Season is HERE!!

Yeah, things have been just a little hectic lately. First finals, then Thanksgiving, and then a new trimester starting - all that doesn't leave much time to sit at the computer and blog! BUT... I have made time to go to both of the boys' basketball games so far. So allow me to sound like the crazy 17-year-old I am for a moment... :)

The first game was great - we won against Malad 43-37 or something like that. It was a great way to start the season. Then, last Friday we played Kimberly. Um, can you say INTENSE?!?! I about had a panic attack right there in the stands. We won in double overtime 56-53. Yeah. Anyone who has seen me cheer at a game knows how into it I can get. Let's just say - I was cheering very enthusiastically with that close of a game. And we got on the news. Cool cool!

The girls have done fairly well too, as far as I know. For some reason, I keep closer tabs on the boys' record than the girls'. But I think they've won half of their games so far, which is way good. Nice job guys!!!