They can drive me crazy sometimes, but you know, I think I have some very cute kids!

SNOW!

So, it's snowed a bit yesterday and today. I thought I'd be a good girl and go into work a second day this week. The snow didn't seem that bad, so I thought it would be managable. I shoveled the driveway and, with a little effort, got the car onto the road. The roads were bad, but I thought I would try it and see. Things were slick and I slid not to far from home, but I kept going. I got to the freeway when I chickened out. I was only going about 30 mph and saw a truck slide off the road. At that point I got off the freeway and headed home. Things were ok until I got to 1100 North, where there's a pretty good hill . We bought four new tires a year ago so the tires are, or at least were, in pretty good shape. It took me FOREVER to get back up 1100 North and there were multiple times where I thought I was going to have to walk it home. After some shoveling, some pushing, lots of attempts including Jeff driving around the neighborhood for a different approach, we finally got it in. So, now I'm happily a homebody today and very very greatful that I can work from home.
On a good note, the boys are going to go sledding at the pit instead. At least there's some good to the snow!

Sledding!!!

I'll have to cover Christmas in another post when I have time. We did have a great Christmas and Nate told me a number of times that this was the best Christmas ever. He did tell me that Santa messed up because he wanted a dinosaur race track with a loop-da-loop and he did get a race track with a loop-da-loop, but it wasn't a dinosaur one so he was disappointed. Oh well. Zach asked for water guns from Santa and he got nerf guns instead, so apparently Santa was off his game. However, they did have a fabulous time and I'll cover Christmas later.

So, on a whim today while grocery shopping, we finally bought some sleds for the boys. Why oh why have I not bought sleds before? My yard is full of hills, and some steep ones at that. The boys have had a ball in the snow today. They've sledded down the hills in the backyard, the side yard, and even the driveway. We finally have a use to our hills! They've had a ball and I'm hoping that they'll sleep really well tonight. Anyone up for sledding?

Coughing again

Zach was coughing again and woke up last night on two separate occasions screaming because he couldn't breathe. Thank goodness for nebulizer treatments! He kept coughing this morning so I took him to the earliest doctor's appointment available at 2:30 pm. Doctor heard crackling so we did chest x-rays, again. Thankfully the x-rays didn't look too bad and the diagnosis is bronchial pneumonia. Hopefully we can just treat it with nebulizer treatments and an antibiotic. I feel so bad for my little boy! I hope things get better soon and he's able to enjoy Christmas.

Our Christmas Angels

I meant to do this earlier. We had some Christmas Angels come this year and it was such a neat experience for our family. The did it from December 1st to December 12th and left things on our porch. On the last day, they came to our porch to sing Christmas carols and let us know how it was. It's a very sweet family in our Ward and we were very touched. We were also very impressed with how sneaky they were. On one of the days, they came on a Saturday morning with all of the blinds open and we had no clue who it was. I thought they were so creative that I wanted to list what they did:

1st Day- A patridge in a can of pears (a can of pears)
2nd Day- two Dove candybars
3rd Day- Free french bread
4th Day- a notepad for when the birds call
5th Day- Five glazed donuts (golden rings)
6th Day- six eggs that the geese laid
7th Day- Bubble bath for the swans to swim in
8th Day- Chocolate milk because the maids milked chocolate milk
9th Day- a CD of Christmas music (that the ladies danced too)
10th Day- some heat pads because the Lords that lept all nght needed a little heat for their sore muscles
11th Day- a book because the pipers piped and picked up this book that they were positively pumped about giving to us
12th Day- a calendar with pictures of the Savior on it so we could remember him the whole year through

I was very touched by this family. The are such a sweet family and it meant so much to my boys. They got excited every night when they heard a knock at the door. I hope to do something like this for someone next year.