Sunday, January 27, 2008

January

January in a snapshot has been this:



It snows. I shovel. It snows again. I shovel again. It snows again. I shovel again. It is sub-zero temperatures. I try not to freeze while leaving the house. Ahh, you've gotta love winter in Wisconsin. On the bright side of things, the days are slowly getting longer and we now have daylight until about 5:15, which is a major bright spot in my days!

After Christmas and spending the time with my sister's family, I came back to Wisconsin to meet up with Pete, who had migrated to Florida this past August. It was great to catch up with him, even though we were both sick during part of his visit. A few days after he left, I was able to celebrate New Years with some great friends. We ended up staying up super late playing Nertz and reminiscing from the years past.

Jessi, Nick, Me, Luke, and Kaela




Just a week later, my family came down to celebrate my birthday with me. We had a great day-chaotic, but fun. I tried a new recipe and made a roast pork loin with fennel, which was really delicious. We played some cards, chatted, ran to the scrapbooking store, played with the kids, and just hung out. My mom and dad stayed later so my mom could come to my Stampin club/class with me, which was a blast.



Logan getting ready to help me blow out the birthday candles-all 28 of them

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Way Behind

So I've been a bit behind in the blogging world lately-sorry to anyone who actually reads this. I have a lot to get caught up with from New Year's to my birthday and many things in between! I've been occupied with a lot of grading lately as report cards came out yesterday and I had to get everything in before then. In addition to that, I have been trying to shovel out from the never-ending onslaught of snow in good 'ole Wisconsin. On Monday we got 12", bringing our season total to 42" (normally 26"). Good times. The upside is that it is very pretty outside and winter sports are working out well (snowmobiling, skiing, etc...) I'll post some pictures and other bits of information later.