Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Shoot.....It's been a while

Well, I have fallen down on the blogging job again.  I guess I got too overwhelmed with Christmas and traveling to update the blog.  Wednesday after work, we headed to my parents house to spend Wednesday night and Thursday for Christmas.  We were supposed to head to Stephenville on Thursday night (Christmas Eve), but the weather had a different plan.  It was Winter Storm 2009.  It was a blizzard.  Snow was blowing everywhere.  We decided to wait until Friday (Christmas Day) to head to Stephenville.  We started our trip and the roads were pretty bad.  All we needed to do was make it to the interstate but that was a pretty hard task on the country roads.  We got to a long hill and almost made it to the top, but we stalled.  There was another truck that was also stuck and someone was pulling them out.  We set there and waited hoping they would pull us off the hill also.  Jerrod got out to help get the first truck unstuck and our pickup started sliding back down the hill.  I yelled at Jerrod and hopped over to the drivers seat and put on the brake.  Luckily we stopped and we put on the parking brake and all was good.  We got pulled off the hill and made it to the interstate.

The roads were ok after that because everything was starting to melt.  We had a very short Christmas lunch in Stephenville and we were back on the road to Dumas.  The roads were pretty good except for between Eastland and Cisco.  They got bad again before we got into Lubbock.  After we got on the interstate in Lubbock, all was clear and we made it safely to Dumas.  I really thought I was going to have a heart attack.  I hate driving on bad roads.  I just don't think it is worth it but we did make it!

Saturday was our trip to Colorado.  We made it without too many problems.  Colton was such a trooper in the car.  He cried a couple of times but he was really, really good!  We skied Sunday and Monday.  It was really nice and clear, but cold.  We went into town Monday night and had a good supper at Lady Falconburgs.  We walked to the Polo Outlet and on our way back we heard some commotion.  Someone actally got run over in the middle of Downtown Durango.  It was crazy but I think the lady was ok.  We had to direct some traffic and then we headed back to the condo.  We decided not to ski on Tuesday and just hung around the condo all day.  It started snowing and it hasn't stopped yet.  We spent a couple of hours in the member's club at the Lodge and watched the skiers come down the mountain.  We went out the ski this morning, but as I said earlier it had snowed all night.  I guess I am a pretty decent skier but I still don't really like a lot of powder.  I came in for lunch and decided to call it a day.  Everyone else went back out for the afternoon.  Colton is taking a nap and I am just watching TV.  One more day of skiing and I think we are going to start heading home on Friday.  I just don't want Colton having to spend 14 hours in the car.  We will see what happens.  Until next time!

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Winter Solstice 2009

So I had no idea that yesterday was Winter Solstice 2009.  Since Jerrod's family loves summer so much they reminded me!  It was the shortest day of the year, but it sure felt pretty long to me.  Well the work day actually went by pretty fast.  It was 3pm and it really felt like about 11am to me.  That was good!

After work we headed to Nana's for chicken fried steak.  Randy & Britney and Aaron & Amanda were going to be there and we really don't get to see them that ofter so off we went.  It is a little over an hour drive to Stephenville, but it was worth it.  C fell asleep in the car so it took him a little while to warm up to everyone.  There were a lot more people there than I expected.  Pretty much everyone was there!  Lets see if I can name them all:  Nana, Jerry, Nikki, Jordan, Jordan's friend, Madison, Marly, Randall, Randy, Britney, Kenton, Jacy, Libby, Heather, Scott, Kendall, Carly, Dale, Pam, Aaron, Amanda, Emma, Gavin, Jerrod, me, Colton, Brent, and Crystal.  I think that is everyone.  Sorry if I forgot you, but you probably won't read this anyway.  We headed back to Weatherford around 9:30, got C to bed, and went to bed ourselves.  I was really tired.  Tired enough that I slept through my alarm this morning.  Oh well!

Sunday, December 20, 2009

What a day

Wow!  What a day!  We left the lake and headed back home.  C fell asleep so it was a pretty quiet car ride. That made me happy.  I was ready for a little peace and quite.  I decided since he was asleep that we would make that stop at Target that way he would have a little longer to sleep.  Well, of course, he woke up as soon as we pulled in the parking lot.  So we all got out and went into Target.  I got the gift tags and a couple other things.  We then stopped at Woly Board Co. because Jerrod is looking for some new ski clothes.  C just went wild when we got in there.  He wanted to run around, wouldn't let either of us hold him and was just screaming.  Jerrod has no patience for that so he just walked out of the store.  We drove through McDonalds for lunch and we went home.  C had Chicken McNuggets for the first time today and he seemed to like them.  He ate all 4!

Jerrod decided C didn't sleep long enough, so he put him down for another nap and he slept for at least another hour.  Some more peace and quite!  When he woke up, we decided to head to Ft. Worth and check out the ski clothes at CD Ski & Sport.  I love that store, but I could probably buy 1 of everything in there and still not be satisfied.  C started acting up again and Jerrod was about ready to leave, but he I took over and he got to look at all the clothes.  I did find some ski bibs for C that I am going to have to go back and get so he can play in the snow while we are in Colorado.  Jerrod decided not to buy anything there because "he didn't want to settle" so we went to a store at the mall.  He tried on 2 pants and a jacket there and decided to get a pair of pants.  It was very much a snowboarder store.  There really is a difference between snowboard clothes and ski clothes.  I do like the pants he got though.

One more stop at Academy to look for snow clothes for C and we were on our way home.  We fixed some supper, I did some stuff for work, C took a bath and got ready for bed.  As soon as he got to sleep, Jerrod's sister arrived.  She is going to be living with us for awhile until she can sell some houses!  We will see how long that lasts.  Jerrod is really looking forward to her being her since tax season is about to start.  He will have another adult to converse with!  Here's to selling some houses!

Back again

I'm back again after only 2 days since my last post.  I have to say I am pretty proud of myself.  Who knows how long I will keep this up, but I will keep trying.  I have decided this will be my New Year's resolution.  I will try hard to keep up with the blog.  More for me than for other people.  This will be like my diary in the digital age.

Right now we are sitting at the lake house.  Colton wants to go outside really bad but it is probably below 40* and he doesn't have any shoes on.  JanMa is trying to distract him to do something different.  Now he is hanging on the door and crying!  He is too silly.

We have 3 days of work this next week and then it is Christmas vacation.  We can't wait!  I still need to wrap all our presents.  I also need to get some name tags that hang on gifts not stick on.  That will be a quick trip to Target.  Hopefully that will get done today.  Not much else going on today other than getting home.

Friday, December 18, 2009

Falling Down

Look who has fallen down on the blogging job.  ME!  Maybe that should be my New Year's resolution:  to keep the blog updated.  We will see.  This weekend we are headed to Lubbock for Crystal's graduation from Texas Tech University.  We are going to pick Brent up on our way through Abilene so maybe the car ride with an almost 18 month old won't be so bad.  Then back to work for 3 days and Christmas.  I can't wait to be skiing in Colorado.

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