SNOW!

Yup, I can actually have a snow heading. So much for the beach house, it's officially a winter resort here today. It is beautiful! Kids had 2 hr. late days, Mon & Tue. it was too cold for the kids at the bus stops & ice on the roads...highs have been 26. Woke up to a foot of snow this a. Most people here (including us) don't even own a snow shovel.
.m. and it's been snowing off and on all day. They closed the schools today and tomorrow. We have been out in the snow all day. The kids playing, me.. shoveling and knocking snow off our 1,000 plants and trees. Also thinking, wow... I could make a lot of money if I had a snowblower!!!

After school yesterday, Phoenix had an away volleyball game, the roads were good enough to go. Their first match was a little slow, the ball did not even come to Phoenix. She played the third match and played really well. 4th match the coach subed her in 1/4 way, she was hitting everything and making some awesome plays (even when she was not trying). She served 5 points, got the momentum going and they were ahead 24/12, she was up to serve. She has been working on her overhand serve with little success. She got up and did a overhand serve, whammied it all the way to the other side of the court and landed a foot away from the line. They won the game and I think Phoenix was floating. LOL Think that will be their last game of the season, I'll miss watching them. Love the game

RUSH

Friday was a rush day....forcast was looking at cold temps and possible snow. It has been reasonably decent temps here so I have left the apples on the trees, better than trying to store them. After taking the kids to school I started picking, burr it was so cold, it was about 40 but the wind was howling, bone chilling howling. I've never picked apples so fast. The trees were loaded this year and I kid you not I have been eating 5 apples a day. We have about 1 tree of every kind, still can't tell you half of them but they sure have been good.

Sat. Gabe was going to work but decided against it, so we loaded up the car and went to the Christmas Tree farm. On the way it started snowing, that has never happened to us before. Put us in the mood, thats about the only time I really miss the snow. We cut down our tree, grabbed hot cocoa and headed back to decorate. It started snowing harder off and on through the night. Woke up this morning to 4 inches of snow. Kids had a blast playing in it. Gabe went duck hunting and now the cold is headed our way. We forgot about our goldfish in our front fountain and had to rescue them by chipping thru the ice, poor things. It will be interesting to see how many school days the kids actually go to school this week.

Nashville

First of November I was Nashville bound. Went to see my brother, sister-in-law and
their new baby boy Quinn.

I flew down to SLC to meet my mom and then to Cin. onto Nashville. When I arrived
SLC it had started snowing. We boarded the plane, taxied out, then plane sat for 1/2 hour, they announced they were having some problems with the defrosting of the windshield. Plane had to go back to the gate for repairs as well as 5 other planes that day. We sat on the plane for 3 hours waiting before we could takeoff. Missed our connection and did not get into Cin until 10-10:30p. They put us up in a hotel
(which was nice) then flew into Nashville the next a.m. This was a long day for me,
considering I went to bed at 12 and got up at 3 to go to the airport. We made it though and had a really nice visit in Nashville. It was so fun to be around a baby again, he is really a cutie. I forgot my Camera, so I'm waiting for some the photo
disk Kurtis did. HINT HINT

Time

Oh....where did the time go? Here it is almost the second week of December and leading up to Christmas. I have accomplish a little Christmas shopping and we have tickets to go to Utah over Christmas...we are excited! This is the first Christmas we have spent with my family in a long time.

Gabe's parents have been here for a little over a month, staying here off and on
as they traveled around the state seeing friends. They went hunting with Gabe before Thanksgiving in E. Washington, getting a couple Geese for Thanksgiving dinner. We had a really nice dinner together. Gabe's mom made her special oyster stuffing which takes a few hours. Gabe cooked the turkey which is always delicious. His parents are back in Alaska now and the house seems quiet, well somewhat, my house is never quiet. LOL

We went shopping yesterday and bought some Christmas ornaments and also some craft
stuff to make some with. We were busy all night experimenting. Phoenix picked the colors of gold and blue for the tree. Now we just need to get the tree.