Merry Christmas To All! :)

For our family that we saw, and those that we didn't... we love you all, and hope your Christmas was merry! And, for a good laugh...

For Jess...

So, Jess did it, guess I can, too! :)


1.) Snow makes me act like a 8 year old!
2.) I'm looking forward to waking up Christmas morning in my house for our daughter's first Christmas!
3.) Yeilding is the best idea ever. If everybody yeilded, I would have my car right now! :)
4.) I'm done with Christmas shopping! But only until next year...
5.) The most enjoyable thing around the holidays is everything: the food, the family, the music, the snow (only when not traveling), the presents, the joy, The Story.
6.) As for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to steak dinner with Josh's family. Tomorrow my plans include hanging out with said family-going to church and a magic show. And Monday, I want to spend all day in my jammies, go to Christmas Eve service, then drive back to Columbia (not that I really want to do that, but I definitely want to be home for Christmas!)

Now, how about your's?

Sweet!

So, the cool news I have is actually from last week, but I haven't gotten around to posting it... This is the button for the MU vs. Arkansas Cotton Bowl that's on New Year's Day... with a slogan written by none other than our very own Joshua Lloyd Looten! :) The bank has a contest to have the employees write the slogans, and Josh submitted this one for the bowl game. We didn't get tickets (bummer), but Josh did get a football signed by Gary Pinkel. Pretty cool! :)

Very Sad

This makes me very sad...





So I obviously got in a wreck today. I was going straight and the car that was coming from the opposite direction and turning left neglected to yield. They hit me pretty good, I have no idea where my hubcap even is... I think that it actually just shattered, because I know the metal ring part of it was laying in the middle of the road because I listened to it get run over about 15 times while I was waiting for the police officer to finish. The driver's door won't really close, andthe bottom of the tire is farther away from the car then the top of the tire- pretty sure that's a bad thing. Praise God Elena was not with me, and no one got seriously hurt, although I'm pretty darn sore. Now I just have to wait and see what the insurance says tomorrow... guess I'll be getting a new car sooner than I thought... especially since Josh's car was supposed to get replaced next! Oh well, God will work...

Winter Weather: Snow

Winter weather struck again last night... it started snowing in the middle of the night, and hasn't really stopped since. So we had another great day to stay inside, or at least at home, and hang out with each other. Josh and Elena and I don't have too many opportunities to do that, so we've enjoyed the last two weekends, when the weather has kept us trapped in our house! Some pictures from the snow...

Winter Weather: Ice

Well, it is officially winter in Mid-Mo! Actually, I guess it's not technically winter for another week or so, but clearly the weather didn't get that memo! We've been hit with three rounds of winter weather in the last week and a half! The first one wasn't so bad, just a couple of inches of snow last Thursday afternoon. Not even enough to cancel school on Friday, though it did make the trip home pretty rough! Then, last Saturday night it iced all night long! Church was cancelled on Sunday, and we spent the day playing around and, of course I took lots of pictures... ice is no fun at all, but it sure does make for some neat pictures!

Truman decided he'd rather stay inside...

...and so did Elena!

Isabelle doesn't mind the cold at all... though her traction wasn't as good! It was pretty funny to watch her skid around the backyard!

A very angry pumpkin... yes, we're "those people" and we still haven't thrown away our jack o' lantern!Monday morning school was canceled, but I still got up to help Josh clear off his car. A screwdriver and a mallet, not the typical car clearing tools!
Look how deep the ice on the roof was!

Anyway, for the first round of bad winter weather, we emerged pretty much unscathed. We had fun staying home together and found out that our backyard is great for sledding on ice... though a bit dangerous with the whole privacy fence at the bottom of the hill thing! The ice is still hanging around, and the weather wasn't finished with us yet...

Engrish

Julie... this is for you! :)

www.engrish.com


Stay tuned for ice storm pictures... someday...

Oh, Christmas Tree

Well, we waited all the way until a week after Thanksgiving to put up our tree this year! What restraint! I love our tree, it is absolutely packed with ornaments. Here are pictures of the tree, the presents already wrapped underneath it (no tags, of course), and some of my favorite ornaments. Including Elena's new one, and the family one we got. Yay for Christmastime! :)