Dreaming....

Anyone else been dreaming of :

Oh...... yummy!!

Ah so pretty

It's every girl's right of passage to have her toenails done.. by someone other than her Mom

( except when its a great birthday party)To soak them in a warm spa
To have them scrubbed while you hold on for dear life because it tickles so much

Annabelle got cute flowers on hers.. I got snowflakes

Ah Cute:

Christmas Time

Christmas Eve... in her new jammies

Christmas Morning... shes not excited at allA very cool new Webkinz

Flour Head Dinner With the Missionaries

It's Coming Down, It's Coming Down

Well coming to Seattle this time of the year usually means that I get a snow free Christmas,

But not this year!

Seattle has gotten 8 inches of snow!!!

Yeah that's right 8! And we are going to be getting more in the next few days. Now When it snows in New York the snow plows come out and clear our roads for us, but in the state of Washington there are only 6 snow plows for the whole state. Needless to say we are snow bound, and taking advantage of the great hills in our neighborhood.

Up Up Up Up Up Up and away

The past year I have flown acrossed the country about 12 times. Flying doesn't bother me, In fact I like a bit of adventure once in awhile. I took off from Albany about 2pm on Tuesday, then got to Baltimore at about 3:30. I really like the Baltimore Airport, its one of my favorites. My plane was going to take off at 4:05pm for Seattle with a stop over in Chicago to let people on and off.

Then everything fell apart!

The captain came on over the loudspeaker and said they weather was really bad in Chicago and that we would be delayed until 5:30.... not dishearten I took a walk and grabbed a steamed milk at Starbucks ( non-fat seamed milk with protein, sugar free vanilla and sugar free carmel, no foam).

When I returned the captain come on to say that the plane was delayed until at lease 8pm. Well I walked over to the Customer service desk to ask if there might be a faster route. The very rude man, said "let me see your ticket". I handed it over, after 5 min of strange faces and typing I had been rerouted to Denver, then to Seattle... Yippy!

Well when we landed into Denver, I was told that the flight I was going to be on had been canceled and that I should fly over to Oakland and wait for the direct flight to Seattle in the morning.

Up up and away to Oakland.. I got into Oakland and realized I had no ticket for the morning flight! To top it off I had no idea if I could even leave the security area of the airport ( what if I'm stuck in Oakland). At 11pm there where no ticket agents.

So I followed the herd out to baggage claim where I waited... and waited until 4:30 in the morning.( Me waiting in the abandoned airport)

Finally the ticket agents showed up and after an explanation they put me on a direct flight to Seattle.. leaving at 6.
As I sat on the plane... waiting, and waiting, the pilot came on the speaker and said that the front wheels where not working and that we needed to deplane and move to another plane... off we all went. So we thought... When we all got on the next plane the captain explained that due to the weather some people are stranded in Sacramento and that we would be taking a 10 min flight over to get them.

We landed in Sacramento, 20 min after we left Oakland, and then waited another 30 min for the guys on the ground to get a plane tow that would work ( theirs died 5 min after we landed).

I do have to say... Its all worth it. seeing My daughter is worth all the sleepless airport nights in the world.

I'm praying for clear weather on the return trip.... Oh and if I would of stayed in Baltimore I would of gotten to Seattle at midnight... not noon the next day.

Jason's section asked me if they could use the cultural hall on Wednesday to play dodge ball, it was the last day of mids. ( yes I asked the Bishop)

Brother Brooks is in Jason section so luckily I wasn't the only member there, It was rather funny since Brother Brooks was on Jason's opposing team the guys felt the Mormon's represented both sides fairly... um.. I didn't correct them, I kinda like the idea of Jason a member.

It was a blast watching these guys.Jason had forgotten his work out pants and since I had planned on doing yoga later in the day I let him borrow my yoga pants... they fit him!Bunch of sailors playing dodge ball, it was so funny. They all tried very hard not to cuss ( surprisingly they did very good , apologizing if they did accidentally slip.) I think we should have a ladies league!

Christmas Dirt

This year Jason got me a new vacuum for Christmas. We got the Dyson Pink from Target. I was so excited to use it for the first time. Our old vacuum died about a month ago.

We don't have alot of carpet in fact its just an area rug in the living room. I have been keeping most of the dirt off by using my broom.
I however was STUNNED to find that in this area rug, I pulled out 4 cups of dirt and dog hair... I almost cried, that my house was that dirty.

I have to say I love my new vacuum, Its awesome. A bit embarrassing to find out how dirty my house actually is.