"Christmas morning"

Soon we are going to have to open presents in the kitchen becuase the presents are taking over the living room.

We celebrated Christmas the 26th because Mike and his finance Angie couldn't make it till then.

Here is Elisabeth trying to eat her new favorite gift, oranges in a plastic bag.

Can you find Elisabeth in all the wrapping? Here she is enjoying her first purse.

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!!! I hope that everyone had a great day. I spent my day plowing my grandma's driveway and watching a marathon of Star Trek The Next Generation.

Merry Christmas Eve!!

Here we are at Christmas Eve Candle Light service. Isn't Elisabeth cute in her Christmas dress that Grandma made her.

Here is Grandma wearing her fur. (I don't know if it is real or not)

How many deer are too many deer?

My grandmother's house is deer central; they come into the yard everyday about the same time. One day their were about 10 deer in back of the house. Here are some of the shots that I took during my Christmas vacation.

A young buck taking a strole through the yard.

There were 5 deer here up by the house looking for some lunch. This is taken from my Grandmothers kitchen window.

Some of the deer were having a hard time judging the distance to jump the fence, this one had no problem clearing the fence.

Icicle wars

Here is the most awesome Icicle that is coming off my mother's house! It is almost down to the snow pile!

This is an icicle on a house in Spokane that I thought was cool.

Welcome to Spokane and a lot of SNOW!!!

Holy Crap Spokane is COLD!! When I arrived in the winter wonder land it was about -16 degrees as you can see on the car temperature gauge.

You can also see that there is some much snow that their is no where to put it so they put it down the middle of the street.

This is how much snow is on my mom's car when I arrived home, she couldn't get out of her driveway so Nicole had to pick me up in the 4 wheel drive.

SCARY

This is right by my old house on Melrose! One of the apartment building on the right of the buses is my old place. While these pictures are obviously not mine, I did see this first hand earlier today as I was on the bus going to the airport. I have never seen so many flashing lights from firetrucks, police and ambulances. I was glad to hear that no one was seriously hurt!

Chilling at the airport

I have arrived at the airport. I'm only over 3 hours early but I was not chancing missing the plane. I was already scolded by Southwest about the fact that I changed my flight too many times. To that I say, Suck it! my flight was cancelled and I will change my flight as many times as I have to till I get the earliest flight I can!

I love snow again!

I have now changed my travel plans about 4 times...

I finally got a flight out tonight!! Christmas time is about to start!

Out my window right now

This is for you Jenny. This is the view out my window right now. This is how snowy it is.

Best bits vol 3

12/18/08

So today started out nice. It was snowing and my walk down the hill to catch the shuttle to work was beautiful. It had that lovely hushed quiet that you only get with snow. I didn't even mind to much that I had to wait 45 minutes to get a shuttle, I actually had to flag one down but that was okay because I was going to fly home to start Christmas vacation this evening.

Lovely

My day started to go down south when I happened to check the weather report for Spokane and saw that they had a record snowfall of 17 inches in 24 hours. I started to get worried that my flight might get cancelled when I saw that most of the morning flights were indeed cancelled. I wasn't too worried yet because my flight wasn't until 9 that night and the storm was suppose to let up mid morning. Around 2pm my flight was listed as delayed an hour and I was okay with that it was fine arriving later than I expected. When I left work the flight was still the same so I was hopeful. I was able to take the work shuttle downtown only to discover that no buses were going up the hill and I would have to walk in the cold and wind. I decided to call and see how my flight was doing and was saddened to find out that it was cancelled. Then I was pissed to learn that the first flight that I could get on was Saturday afternoon at 3:10!!! Damn it I want to start Christmas now not 2 days from now!!! Now I'm trying to decided if I want to try my luck tomorrow at the airport and see if I can fly out standby. I'm not sure what I'm going to do. Travis is happy because now I'm going to be on the same flight that he is. He also doesn't understand why I'm mad that I have to wait till Saturday. I planned to leave after work today so that I could have the most time back home during my favorite time of year, so it bums me out that I have to wait. Plus I'm not the most patient of people.

Let me just say that the walk back up the hill was not as enjoyable as the walk down was. 1. it wasn't nearly as pretty. 2. it was much colder, my face was frozen! 3. I was irritated I wasn't going to be going home.

Not as lovely

Here I am chatting with Travis as I trek in the cold.

FUCK SNOW!

I'm so irritated my flight was cancelled and now I can't start my vacation until late Saturday afternoon! The only person happy about this info is Maggie.

update

Departure Seattle (SEA) 08:55 PM Delayed 10:35 PM

Arrival Spokane (GEG) 09:50 PM Delayed 11:30 PM

White Christmas? Yes. Home for Christmas? Who knows

I have no idea if I will be able to get home to ML tonight to start my Christmas vacation! Seattle is in a snow storm (Winter Freeze) and Spokane is getting DUMPED on, 17 inches in 24 hours (I don't know what their icon is yet)!!! So far my flight is not cancelled, but most flights are. I really don't want to have to go to the airport tonight to find out that my flight is cancelled. If it is going to be cancelled I would like it to happen before I try to get to the airport! I hope I can get to ML tonight so I don't have to try to deal with getting on a flight tomorrow with all the other people who's flights were cancelled today!