Home for the Holidays

wow. Ok, sooo since I last wrote... I took my exams, they were hard, but seemed to go pretty well, booked it home friday afternoon and have spent LOTS of family time since. We went out to dinner at American Bounty w/my dad and his gf and Billy (kindof a b-day dinner for billy) and Daddy bought a bottle of Beringer White Zin that we split...yummy! So yeah good food, good company :) Then Sat we collected (can't say rake as there was not much raking... as we used leaf blowers and the Billy goat to vacuum them all up) leaves ALL DAY... I'm still sore. Daddy and Billy hadn't done it all year... we must have had 20 bags of leaves from that poor little yard. It was 2 FULL truckloads, so when we took it over to mom's (to put on the garden) I drove Billy's truck and he drove the Green Truck.... Yay driving a stick shift! Yeah so I'm not so good at it, but apparently I'm better than I remembered cuz I only killed it a coupla times, and the rest was smooth sailing.... seriously, I managed to not jerk it out of every stop sign I hit :). right so then we just relaxed the rest of the night. Sunday... mass and ARCTIC FRONT!!! for cryin out loud saturday it got up to almost 60... Sunday it was more like 40 below!!! so we went to 9:00 mass at Blessed Mother.... no wait, they changed theirs and so we walked in at communion... ooops! Let's try again... we go to St Joe and Paul... we figure if they don't have a 9:00 we can go down and kill time lookin at the property. Yay! they do have a 900 mass, and Fr Brian is the priest there so that was cool. Then we go down to the property BRRRRRRR!!! JESUS IT WAS REALLY COLD FROM THE WIND OFF OF THE RIVER!!! His new house is gonna have like 6in of insulation and the best windows and.... yeah. so then we head to O'Charleys' for Billy's Birthday Breakfast.. yummy waffles and hot tea! Billy opens his present (after we make him go to the bathroom...twice... so we can sign his card) and guess what!? It's not the right one! oops (but we still amused ourselves placing the bow on top of his head as he opened :) ). so after breakfast we go down to the drugstore and daddy comes out with another one. He opens that one in the car... just in case we need to try again. Jak and Daxter 3... yay., right one. So now as tradition has it.... off to find a christmas tree on the coldest day of the year, as had been our luck all day, naturally our first try they don't sell christmas trees there anymore. S'ok.. back to a different location, grab a tree and head home.... spend most of the day getting all our decorations out....we have Pipka and handpainted by grandma/grandpa santas EVERYWHERE. and 2 lovely christmas trees, one that looks like it belongs in the glassmakers shop that we bought all the ornaments from ;) and a real one that smells lovely. Then to the Drugstore Christmas party and we are on to Monday. Monday I went to the Dentist and got the chip in my front tooth fixed, YAY! and I looked at my grades. Shouldn't have looked. I'm PISSED. According to it I got a C in Patho/Pharm. I thouight I did well on that exam :(. Am trying to figure out if there's a mistake. I think it's crappy that the don't have an exam review for the final since they let you look and see what questions you got wrong, and challenge questions on all the other exams. so yeah... Got most of my presents wrapped, and then Monday night... went out with Lance for our anniversary... a real date! it was/will be our first 2 year anniversary (we didn't quite make it the first time) :) First he came over and we hung out a bit and then I got ready and we went to the BriarPatch. YUMMY! We got a bottle of wine and had some yummy food, and he even got me a gift... PEARL EARRINGS! They are BEAUTIFUL! I put them in right away, love them. He's too good to me. :) So then we went to his house for a bit, chatted with his mom, and then back to my house to see Billy's X-Box LAN setup. He had 12 boys, 4 tvs, 4 X-boxes... all connected... it was a 12 person game of Halo. pretty amusing seeing them all setup in the basement. lol. so Tuesday we went for our consultation with Riherd. We are going to get a family pic with my dad tomorrow, we are all excited, it's definately about time for another one. Went to the Dipper and ate lunch with Lance and Jacob (me jenny billy and mom) and mulched the roses so they won't be cold in the "winter weather" we are recieving at the moment. Billy and I messed with my computer... still working on backing up my harddrive so we can wipe and reformat and start over. Still have my fingers crossed for a new Harddrive. and then we pretty much wasted the rest of the night playing Diablo II. I went up like 15 levels last night :). And now for today. We have LOTS of SNOW and it doesn't look like it's stopping anytime soon. The rest of hte fam is at the dentist but I can't go untill after Jan 28... boo. looks like I prolly won't get my teeth cleaned till this summer then as they aren't open fri-sun or holidays so basically anytime I'm in... maybe spring break we'll see, but by then I might as well just wait and get back on the june/dec track. So yeah... just killin time... maybe I'll go make a snowman.... :) Merry Christmas all!!! Be Safe and hope everyone's enjoying their break! :)