Yes, we have snow. Not as much as some weather people predicted, but we did receive a lot of snow today. Which Brooke of course was in love with. She is definitely like me there. Mike and his family HATE snow! Quite literally!! But I love it, even though it is cold. And Brooke always gets so eager to go play in it!! If I didn't make her come in every once in awhile to warm up, she would stay out in it, until she is freezing cold and wet! And of course her favorite thing is eating it! I didn't get any pictures of her today in it, but maybe another day.
Otherwise, we are all alive and in good health right now. We've all been through the nasty cold. But doing great now. Brooke is eagerly awaiting Christmas. I had a couple of her presents wrapped, after we put the tree up I put them under it. I am thinking that was a mistake not to be repeated. At least once a week she asks if she can open them. So I am really trying to think of things, read stories, show her things, and explain things pertaining to Christ's birth and the real reason for the season. I am hoping it is sinking in better than it appears. Like most other things. She's also learning a lot. She can read her numbers, write her name, read most of the abc's when she wants to, she is excellent with shapes, matching things, etc.
Mike is still staying pretty busy at work. And I am still home keeping house for now.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Our Tree & the hunting for it!!!!
I have been kind of putting my blog out of my head. Not exactly sure why, just have. But as I thought about it, I do have things to post about. So......
Our weekend after Thanksgiving was sort of normal. My dad went with my uncle Brent after Christmas Trees up Holden Canyon. Due to circumstances we weren't able to go up. So we went up the canyon here towards Brianhead and found my perfect tree for the year. (I am extremely picky about my Christmas Tree... probably mostly due to the fact that I LOVE Blue Spruces. So that is what I look for, as long as they are allowed for the year)
Before leaving Saturday we decided to take Brooke to see Santa at Christmas in the Country. Of course she wouldn't even look at him let alone get in line or sit on his lap. Yeah she has a big issue with talking to Santa! But she still wants him to bring her presents. lol.
It was snowing! Which to me is normal and I am used to. Mike on the other hand was not too thrilled on going up the canyon and look for trees in falling snow. We didn't end up going where originally planned. But I found a little road off the main highway that led down the river to quite a few nice trees. Bo found his two in a hurry. But me as always was looking for "the one".
We came upon a whole bunch of trees together and as I was looking at a few of them I noticed this one that looked very nice but it was pretty tall. (fyi we were looking for a 16' tree here) I mentioned to Mike that it was too bad it was so tall it was nice. We kept looking around. But my eyes would draw back to that tree. The more I looked at it the more I wanted it. But I didn't want to make Mike climb the tree to cut it down.
Mike asked if that was the tree I wanted. I said I liked it but there wasn't really a way to get it down. Bo had said something to Mike. And Mike answered, "Didn't you see the light around the tree?" Bo of course was baffled. Mike continued, "It had a white glow around it as soon as she saw it." Which as I thought about it, is kind of true. When I find "the one" I just know that that tree is it, we look at other trees sometimes, but I always go back to that one.
If you are appalled to this upcoming confession... I'm sorry for you. But I love my tree. Since we left the chainsaw in the truck up by the main road, (we really hadn't planned on finding anything, since we hadn't the other places we looked) we only had his dad's saw. And what a piece of work it was! It took those two a long time to saw the tree down. Then they had to cut it down to size more. It didn't help any that the saw kept falling apart.
If I had known it was going to take so long with such complications I would have went and got the dang chainsaw. I am very grateful they worked hard just to get the Christmas tree I wanted just to make me happy!! Thank you babe! I love you for how hard you work for me and us!
I would have taken the whole thing but that definitely would not have fit in my house width or length. Here is a picture of the gorgeous tree in our house.
An update on my grandma. When I talked to my mom, Grandma thought she was going to be released today. However they still don't know what it's wrong with her. I personally think they need to take her somewhere else and get a second opinion. I understand that it takes time sometimes, but if they can't figure it out why not send her somewhere else like say to a bigger hospital???? I know I don't know all the facts, but some things just seem obvious to me.
Our weekend after Thanksgiving was sort of normal. My dad went with my uncle Brent after Christmas Trees up Holden Canyon. Due to circumstances we weren't able to go up. So we went up the canyon here towards Brianhead and found my perfect tree for the year. (I am extremely picky about my Christmas Tree... probably mostly due to the fact that I LOVE Blue Spruces. So that is what I look for, as long as they are allowed for the year)
Before leaving Saturday we decided to take Brooke to see Santa at Christmas in the Country. Of course she wouldn't even look at him let alone get in line or sit on his lap. Yeah she has a big issue with talking to Santa! But she still wants him to bring her presents. lol.
It was snowing! Which to me is normal and I am used to. Mike on the other hand was not too thrilled on going up the canyon and look for trees in falling snow. We didn't end up going where originally planned. But I found a little road off the main highway that led down the river to quite a few nice trees. Bo found his two in a hurry. But me as always was looking for "the one".
We came upon a whole bunch of trees together and as I was looking at a few of them I noticed this one that looked very nice but it was pretty tall. (fyi we were looking for a 16' tree here) I mentioned to Mike that it was too bad it was so tall it was nice. We kept looking around. But my eyes would draw back to that tree. The more I looked at it the more I wanted it. But I didn't want to make Mike climb the tree to cut it down.
Mike asked if that was the tree I wanted. I said I liked it but there wasn't really a way to get it down. Bo had said something to Mike. And Mike answered, "Didn't you see the light around the tree?" Bo of course was baffled. Mike continued, "It had a white glow around it as soon as she saw it." Which as I thought about it, is kind of true. When I find "the one" I just know that that tree is it, we look at other trees sometimes, but I always go back to that one.
If you are appalled to this upcoming confession... I'm sorry for you. But I love my tree. Since we left the chainsaw in the truck up by the main road, (we really hadn't planned on finding anything, since we hadn't the other places we looked) we only had his dad's saw. And what a piece of work it was! It took those two a long time to saw the tree down. Then they had to cut it down to size more. It didn't help any that the saw kept falling apart.
If I had known it was going to take so long with such complications I would have went and got the dang chainsaw. I am very grateful they worked hard just to get the Christmas tree I wanted just to make me happy!! Thank you babe! I love you for how hard you work for me and us!
I would have taken the whole thing but that definitely would not have fit in my house width or length. Here is a picture of the gorgeous tree in our house.
An update on my grandma. When I talked to my mom, Grandma thought she was going to be released today. However they still don't know what it's wrong with her. I personally think they need to take her somewhere else and get a second opinion. I understand that it takes time sometimes, but if they can't figure it out why not send her somewhere else like say to a bigger hospital???? I know I don't know all the facts, but some things just seem obvious to me.
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