pictures to go with previous post...

sorry the picture are backwards start at the bottom!

hey lisa is this a pond?
Me and Lisa

Plowing the roads

man why is it upsidedown? uggh

one of the accidents i saw there is another bus but i didn't get a very good picture

snow on the side of the road

the house with all the snow

walking in the snow

time to blog again!

So it's been a long time since i have blogged, sorry! I guess i've been busy, and stuck in snow with no internet, and traveling, etc and that just means that you get to read a super long blog today!

So the snow came, and came, and came and wouldn't stop so we had over 2 feet by the time i managed to get out and on my way to Oregon. We were pretty much snowed in and we would walk to the grocery store when we needed stuff, it's a 4 mile walk total in ice or knee deep snow it was really fun and i was glad for the chance to walk because i couldn't get to the gym and would have gone crazy being stuck in the house. It was beautiful, absolutely beautiful i loved it, until i realised that if it didn't stop soon i wouldn't be able to get out and go home for christmas.

Last friday was the ONLY clear day before we were to get another 2 weeks of non-stop snow. My amazing boss and her husband went a dug me out so that i would be able to get home, i seriously can never thank them enough for helping me! So i made it out and went into town so i could get gas and run to the bank that took an hour instead of just 20 minutes. It was so weird there was a lot of ice and snow on the road and we would hear sirens and couldn't tell where they were coming from until they were right next to us and they would be driving down the wrong side of the road because those people were able to get over and we weren't, it was crazy. After the errands were run and i got onto the freeway i thought it would be all easy driving and i'd be home in a few hours, it normally takes 6 hours to get home and i figured it would take maybe 8 because of snow...haha well i was in for a nice cool (as in COLD) surprise! Just 20 miles down the road my window on my nice new car started to roll down and wouldn't roll up so i just left it it was only down less than an inch, and then it started slowly falling an inch, two inches, four, half way and then it just fell all the way down! Ahhhh it was 30 degrees and sooo cold. It wouldn't roll up and 5 hours later freezing cold and watching the snow begin to fall again i went to Maurices and bought a hat, a hat with ear flaps that was fir lined! I wasn't anywhere near home yet so i called a friend and 2 hours later i arrived at her house, it should have took4hours took me 7. I was tired and cold but so thankful to be there, they all came out and i was hugged and then they asked if they could just touch my cheek and see how cold it was! lol they though it was cold but they should have felt it before the hat! anyways i got into the house and was offered warm soup and a nice warm bed, it was so wonderful!

The next morning they helped me fix my window, which was an adventure of it's own! lol Lisa's dad was working on it and he managed to get the first panel off the door but there was another one that we just couldn't get off so Lisa and i decided to go and "help". We came up with a brilliant idea (he thought it was crazy) to fix the window. Oh in the second panel that wouldn't come off there was two holes that we could see the window when we looked at them and they were pretty big and we discovered that i could reach down where the window was supposed to come up and feel the window but i wasn't able to get a grip on it to pull it up so this is where the brilliant plan comes in..... we decided that we would use suction cups and put them on the window and push it up and i'd grab it and keep it from sliding and we'd keep doing this until we got the window out! So lisa goes sprinting into the house to grab the suction cups that hold her razor in the shower and the one for her sisters and come running back out, (her dad is laughing at us the whole time) and we set to work. Three minutes later screaming could be heard "i have a window, i have a window!" We then left her dad to finish up and we went to take pictures in the snow. Once it was done i packed my bags and headed out, supplied with tire chains, and a bag of m&m's (in case it got stressful and i needed some chocolate). I was feeling pretty optimistic that i'd make it at least an hour...

Mom called me 20 minutes later to see if i was on the road and i very cheerfully told her yes, yes i was and i was going a whole 40 mph down I-5 and i wasn't sliding around too bad and i'd only seen 3 cars off the road so far.... another half hour later i get another phone call " i just heard that you were on the road and wanted to see if you were ok. Apparently there was a big storm and everyone thought i was crazy to be driving but i wasn't turning back i only had an hour (so i thought) of driving left! Ok i started digging into the m&m's by portland when the roads were covered in snow and i couldn't see any lane lines and traffic wasn't going above 20 mph. A few minutes later i made a phone call to another friend and then called mom and told her that no i wouldn't be home that day it was too crazy out. I made it to the fileners half a bag of m&m's later and found out that i wasn't the only one stuck there, we had quite a party of people that were traveling and couldn't go any further. It was pretty fun i was stuck there for 2 days and then the boys knowing how badly i was wanting to get home and see my family put the chains on my tires and followed me home in a big truck all ready to pull me out of the ditch if i went off the road. I did make it safely and i have never never in my life been so thankful for good friends as i was those 4 days!

So now i'm in cali at grandma's having fun and hanging out! So far nothing too exciting to report except that kevin is here and seeing him again has been a lot of fun! big brothers are special!

First snow of the year!

Well we were supposed to get this huge storm last night (power outages, snow, ice, 60 mph weather) i think the weather men were just saying whatever they felt like saying because i'm pretty sure it rain a little bit was about 48 degrees and really a lovely day! lol Micah and i got all ready for the storm, went to the store and got flashlights, waterbottles, hats and gloves, filled up the tubs with water, etc. We're on a well and septic tank so if the power goes so does the water, and the heat and everything pretty much! I was really looking forward to this i thought it would be fun, but alas it was not to be so! :) In fact i woke up today to a sunny cloudless sky....

So around 3 today the clouds came back and started dumping the snow! we don't have much yet but it's still coming down so maybe we'll have quite a bit by morning, which would be amazing! Micah had never seen snow before so it was so cute to watch him before it was even sticking he had plans to "go throw a snowman (yes that's what he said)" So i'd heard parents say it wasn't worth getting kids dressed to go out in the snow because it was all gone by the time they were ready! Well let me tell you how true that is! lol seriously i woke micha up from his rest because i didn't know if it was the only snow we'd get and he had to see it and by the time we got outside it was pretty much done but he was still excited! :) I'll post pictures

OH I GOT A CAR!!!!!!! :) It's a VW Jetta Wagon i think 2003 or something like that. Silver really nice i bought it from my boss she got a new new car! I love it and i have a picture not that great of one but a picture.

old fun pictures :)

and here's one more hope you all had fun giggling over those i could get some more out if you'd like!

Well nothing too exciting to report today...it's been a fairly uneventfull one. but i do have a nice little Micah story to tell.

I've had the last few days off and i wanted to take a nap and Micah informed me that if i did he was going to bark and wake me up! :)

and here are some old picture that i just love to pieces so i'll put them up!

Special meetings!

So for those super cool people living in Washington it's special meeting time!!! This last weekend i went to Lisa's house along with a bunch of my other friends and then on Sunday we went to special meeting. It was wonderful! I'm still stuck on what we heard about thankfulness. "the experience is not over until we can be thankful for it" "God wants us to be a thankful people" we also heard from Claudia about the key of repentance that opens the door for forgiveness. She told us about the wonderful burden of shame, guilt, pain, etc that would bring us to the place of repentance. I don't think i know anyone else who would think to call those things wonderful but her! When she puts it the way she did though they really do sound wonderful!

The weekend hanging out with Lisa, Chelsy, Heidi, Dankia, Chayln, David, and Cleve was fun as well! Saturday we went to the park and bowling. Then sang hymns for forever...the girls kicked me out of their bedroom and into the office all by myself with the reason of last time we had a sleepover i talked too much a kept them all awake...don't know what they are talking about!
Sunday after meeting was a blast as well, we had a nice calm afternoon of fighting over the last piece of cheesecake, running down the hallways, driving on nice sunday drives, and other normal things like that. The drive home was boring, couldn't stand it, so tired of driving all the time! and i didn't remember my camera so unless i take the pictures from cleve or lisa i guess no pictures will show up. Sad day (that was for you Sierra)

Monday, being today i guess i should just say today but it feels like it was days ago, started off with a bang...hopping on the train before the sun came up and staying there for the next 5 hours. Actually it wasn't too bad i got a lot of stuff done, it was a nice amount of quiet time without having to wonder what Micah was doing. When i got back we came home for a few hours and then went to the gym for a while, i'm really loving that place!

Ok well all for now i hope you all like my new background :)

A day with Micah

So today is a day of Micah stories probably because that's what my day is filled with...:)

Anyways the morning started out pretty normal, Micah waking up before the sun was up and coming to my door to tell me he was hungry. Thankfully he just wants cereal because i'm really not so sure my brain would work well enough that early in the morning to actually make him breakfast. he'd probably end up with runny eggs to drink and scrambled toast to go with his toasted milk. That's how well i function the minute i get up. If he'd give me at least 15 minutes to wake-up i would probably be able to get two out of the three right...which isn't possible but anyways. I guess i should be thankful that he like his cereal!

Becky worked a swing shift last night which meant she got home around 1:30 in the morning so Micah and i tried to be quiet for a while which included him telling the dogs to be quiet anytime they made any noise, i think he was louder than them. At on point he hit one of the dogs for some reason or another which is a automatic time-out so i sent him into his room to sit on the bed with NO toys. He went to his room screaming the whole way about how he wasn't my friend and he didn't like me anymore and when his mommy got home he was going to tell on me and she was going to put me in time out. When his mom did get up a few minutes later she walks by me and says "i heard you getting told off" and then laughs.

When he woke up from his "nap" (I'm pretty sure he didn't actually sleep but oh well) he came and informed me that his pants were falling off and he needed a seat belt to help the stay on. I found that to be extremely cute :) Of course we were in a bit of a mood today, see what happens when we don't take that much needed nap, so when i said it was time to go shopping and then to the gym he informed me that he was NOT going to go with me and that he WAS going to watch a movie. Haha i won that battle and every other one!

Shopping was an experience let me tell you...
We arrived at the mall and got out of the car and he immediatly asks for a hand and tells me that he needs to hold a hand because he is a "spaz" and runs all over the place if he doesn't. Micah also doesn't like to shop i've learned, but i'll get him trained up so that he does! At the first store Maurices he did ok only asking if we were done about every 5 minutes. By the second store he told me he was leaving, and while we were paying he started growling which is never a good sign. So i packed him up and went off to Michael's, stop number three...he did pretty well there only yelling at me that he wasn't staying by me once or twice and then petting all the yarn and telling me what ones i was going to buy, but in the parking lot he decided he was running away...that was interesting i believe i grabbed him by the hood and we had a nice little talk that ended with him holding my hand as we walked to the car. We then went grocery shopping which was necessary i needed to make reese's for tomorrow. I think he was yelling at me there too a little bit but i don't remember why, oh i think he wanted to eat the chocolate chips right then and there and i wouldn't let him. Which got a Micah DO NOT TALK TO ME THAT WAY! and then i threatened to put him in bed the minute we got home, he stopped talking to me all together which worked. We did go home after that, i was feeling a little tired of shopping myself by then!

So we got home and i went to put the new stuff away and i heard micah hitting jonah...not the hitting but the angry sounds he makes when jonah is bugging him and he is retaliating by hitting. so i waited a few moments then went out there and looked at him and asked Micah were you hitting Jonah? His response " i'm just going to go to my room now, ok." Smart little kid.

After timeout we made Reese which was really nice, pretty calm the whole time! When i let him taste it at the end i asked him if he liked it and he said "this is GOOD sugar." which made me grin. I got a few pictures but i can't find the camera cord to put the pictures on the computer and that is a problem.

So i guess the moral of the story today is if micah doesn't really take a nap, only sits in his room for a hour and a half it's not an "oh well, we tried", it's a problem! And again i need to be packing because i've got fun plans for the weekend!!!!!!!

Oh ya i've been informed that yes writing a holiday letter to send out does mean i'm getting old,

Back to school time!

So this is for all you who had to go back to school today! hehehe hope you had fun while i slept in! :)