Sunday, December 14, 2008

Winter Wonderland

The snow has finally fallen, and will not be leaving until the spring. So far, it has not been that cold until today. Today was the worst day yet! When I left work, and went to my car in the freezing cold, I was ready to get the ice scrapper out. Well, I definitely needed the ice scrapper, but it was to get into my car. My car door was literally frozen shut. All of the rain ended up freezing on my car, and I couldn't open the door. When I arrived to work, it was raining and about 35 degrees. That was the high for the day at six in the morning. The temperature just kept dropping from there and will continue to drop for the next couple of days. We are expected to get about 10 inches of snow this evening, and tomorrow's high will be NEGATIVE four, but feel like NEGATIVE thirty. Did you know that is below zero?! At least Casey and I were able to get in our Christmas photos before it is "bitterly cold" according to weather.com. Minnesota is welcoming us with open arms. :)

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Turkey Day

I know it is a little late, but we thought we would still update everyone on our Thanksgiving. Casey and I had a lovely Thanksgiving in our new home with our pups by our side. It was a lot of fun to actually cook everything, and very satisfying when it tasted good! We started a tradition where we have to right down what we are thankful for, and included the dogs in on this one; of course they were thankful for food, which will be a common trend in the coming years. While this Thanksgiving was wonderful, we dearly missed our family. As I am sure many of you have heard, we ended up surprising everyone by flying down for the weekend, with of course some help from the parental units. (So thank you for that guys!) So I went to work at 4:30 in the morning on Black Friday, which could be a whole new post in of itself, the madness from the other side this year is actually pretty interesting. I did not get off work until 2, and Casey and I had to catch a plane by six. Needless to say, it was one busy day. We arrived into good ol' Tampa Bay at midnight, with my dad waiting for us. We did a quick surprise visit with my mom, and ended up sneaking into Casey's house with the help of Jamie. Now I still have no idea how it worked five times, but everyone in the house was surprised. We woke Mama Smith up by jumping on her bed. Everyone else came down the stairs one by one and were equally surprised to see us. It was wonderful to see everyone, and we missed them all greatly. We are excited to go down for Christmas and be able to spend a little more time with everyone.