Winter Blast

Bret in grandams backyard after shoveling

I guess its time that I update the blog. Things have been so crazy around here lately.
Mckinley now has 4 teeth. That is 4 teeth in 15days too. She has been a real trooper though. She thinks that she is a big girl and needs to eat mom and dads food instead of her own. I tried to feed her the apricots that she used to absolutely devour, and she shook her head as if to tell me no and pointed to my plate. It was cute and funny but at moments like that I have to remember to keep a straight face.
Friday night our neighbors moved out. It was sad to see them go. I really am going to miss them. Its funny how attached you get to your neighbors. Because we live in a duplex, its almost like a part of the house is missing now. I am happy for them though. They bought a house.... man... one day we will be able to have one too.. I know it.
Our street on Friday night was packed. Between the neighbors moving and everyone helping them, and the Cox party going on over at grandma's no one had any room to park. So Bret and I decided to take advantage of the time and little space and left to do some Christmas shopping. When we left our house, it was raining. We went to eat and by the time we were done it had started to snow CRAZY snow! As much as I love snow its different driving in it now that I have McKinley. I totally trust Bret and his driving (he served his mission in Alaska... he should know how to drive in the snow) I just don't trust everyone else out on the road. so driving home was a little crazy. By the time we had finished shopping and eating and got home, we had 3 inches of snow!

The front of Grandmas house with all the snow

Saturday morning we woke up and I went with Bret to go pick up the food donations from around the ward. I think everyone forgot to donate because of the snow. When we got home we started shoveling and blowing all the sidewalks. I took a few pictures this time too, so you can see the amounts of snow we had.

McKinley and I in front of our house

When we got in from shoveling, our power went out. So we changed our clothes and went out to get the rest of the Christmas shopping done. When we were out, Bret surprised me with what he wanted to get me for Christmas, a little puppy. He is SO cute. He is half yorkie half maltese. He shouldn't get bigger than 5lbs. We named him Dash cause when we got home and I let him down he took off like a wild dog and ran around our coffee table about 7 times before finally stopping. I still need to take some pictures of him. He is so little and black that I think I need to wait for him to get bigger before you will be able to tell that it is a dog.
Anyway, our power was off for the rest of the day and well into the night. When we went to bed our house of 53 degrees. I called the power company because our neighbors power line had snapped from the weight of the snow and the boy who lives there said no one had called it in. I figured that he was just joking around, but he wasn't. The line had snapped about 11 and when I called at 9 that night, no one had even called it in. So I was mad at my stupid neighbors for my house being cold. If they would have called it in when it happened, maybe we would have had power sooner. The power did finally come on about 4 in the morning. I was so greatful to the men who work for the power company I could have ran out in my pjs and gave them all a huge hug. Bret told me I couldn't do it.

looking down our street.. I think you can even see the broken power line too.

This week bret is finally done with finals, he took his last one today. Its sure going to be nice having him around the house again!!! At least for a few more weeks.