And It Just Keeps Coming...

At least we don't have icicles ;)

I had to dig out our mailbox so our mailman would deliver to us

Yikes! Don't stand under there!

Notice the lights shining through the bottom
of the snow on the right of the path...

Too Much Snow!!

I have never seen so much snow in my life! We are (hopefully) towards the end of snow storm #2 in one weekend. #1 hit early Friday morning until early afternoon, dumping almost a foot of snow on us! All the schools were closed of course, but I still had to work - we had to take turns shoveling every hour or two to keep our sidewalks clear! When I got out of work, I was plowed into my spot with drifts as well. There was pretty much a 2 foot (high and wide) wall of snow entirely surrounding my car.... so I had to dig it out before I could leave. Then I got stuck turning onto the side streets by my house (because the plows were so backed up that they didn't get to our street yet)... and walked home to get my shovel and dig some more. I got back out onto the main street and tried to turn onto a different side street, but someone else was stuck there, so I hopped out to help him dig out his car before I could get through! What a night!! It also took Matt 20 min to get the 2 blocks to the main street because he kept getting stuck.

Saturday night storm #2 hit with temps in the teens and high winds of 20-40 mph. There was so much snow blowing all over the place when we got up that we decided it safer not to fare the roads to get to church. Matt still had to work though, so I bundled up more than I ever have before to face the -10 degree wind chill and snow blow the driveway. That was enough cold air for me for the day, I decided I wasn't leaving the house again! I think it's pretty darn safe to say that we'll be having one heck of a white Christmas! Considering we have around 18 inches of snow where there aren't drifts, and 2-3 feet in some of the drifts.

Here are a few pics of the snow and drifts:

Front yard: notice Matt's snow wall :)

Our yard has merged onto our path and front steps!

Big drift next to the garage

My poor buried dead car!

Pretty bush covered in snow out the window

There's a mountain on our deck!

Where did our chair legs go?

The sight out the breezeway window

I love the smell of Christmas trees

Oops, I haven't written on here in a long time! I guess I've been busy for once :). What have I been up to you ask? Last last weekend Matt's sister, Amy, was here visiting Calvin and stayed over Friday and Saturday nights. We went to see the movie Twilight, since I recently read all 4 of those books. It was alright... it's always fun to see characters from books come to life... but I also never like the movies as much as the books because they are so different than the pictures that I make in my head. We had a good time though. That weekend we got a lot of snow, it was so pretty to watch it slowing falling down. I also did a little bit of Christmas baking with a friend and learned some new recipes.

I have been doing tons of crocheting lately. I have been experimenting with different hat patterns and I'm happy to say, they are turning out pretty well!

Our tree has been up, lit, and decorated for a while now, but I never get sick of just sitting in the dark living room, gazing at my beautious glowing tree. Now that and our other decorations are up, and I just put a few presents under the tree - so I am feeling very Christmasy lately.

This week is going to be a very busy one for me. Tonight I have a work Christmas dinner and Tuesday night is our Christmas program. It's also very busy at work with all of our Christmas projects going on. At least it's the last full week before Christmas!

Matt has finals this week, and a few papers to write, but then he's done for the semester! He found out that next semester he will be student teaching at Grandville Middle School.

Thanksgiving is over, Christmas is coming, and snow is falling.

Life has been a little bit busy lately. Grace was here last Monday through Wednesday... which was wonderful, but not nearly long enough since I had to work each of those days still.

Wednesday night after Matt got off of work we headed to his parents in Indiana. Our Thanksgiving day was wonderful, delicious, fun, and relaxing... just as it should be :). The whole weekend was great. Friday I went shopping around town with Matt's mom, then that night his sister Amy came along with us to the outlet mall. We got found some great deals :-D.

We got a tree this weekend, hurray! I LOVE real trees! My house smells AMAZING :). So, it's up in the living room, but I still need to put lights on and decorate it. I did get the rest of my Christmas decorations up though (not that there are very many :-P).

On Sunday and Monday we got like 4-5 inches of snow. I have to say that I was much more ready for it this time. It was big fluffy wet pretty snow :). And I was at home, so I could sit and watch it out the window. It is definitely putting me even further into the Christmas mood. Not that I need any help with that. Did i mention how much I love the Christmas season? The lights, the decorations, the baking, the hot cocoa and tea and lates, the cuddling up with a blanket or book or my husband, the giving, the time with family... so many many things to be thankful for.

So... I got an early Christmas present! I got a new camera! I couldn't handle waiting until Christmas for it when I bought it this weekend already because it was on sale. Yay!! I took a few snow pictures with it even :).