A Quick Blog

It's been a while since I've blogged about anything. We are leaving my parents tomorrow and heading back over the mountains!!! Emma is staying behind for 2 weeks while I get in some substitute teaching time. I am going to miss her TONS!! I have never been without her for more than 8 hours so 2 weeks sounds like a lifetime for me. She's sick right now too and I feel so bad leaving her with my parents but hopefully she will get better really soon. They know how to take care of a sick child better than I do anyway.

We have had a pretty uneventful trip. The snow was horrible over here so we were house bound for a week. We had over 2 feet of snow and the city and county didn't plow the roads until it was way after the fact. We did enjoy sledding in the back yard, going to Ikea and hanging out with my family. I was even able to reconnect with one of my high school friends and go out to lunch with her. It has been a long 2 weeks though! I love spending time with my family but I think we overstayed this time. We would've left earlier but since we are leaving Emma for so long I didn't want to leave her if I was going to go home and have no work to do.

Christmas was different this year. We were planning on having it at my Grandpa's house but no one could get up his driveway even in 4 wheel drive so he actually stayed with us for a whole week and everyone came to my parents for Christmas. It was the first Christmas without my Grandma there and that was a strange feeling. She was the one that made the holiday for me and I didn't realize it until this year. Her love of family and the holidays filled the house and touched everyone that was there.

I was able to talk to my brother Tyler who is on his mission on Christmas Eve. It was nice to hear his voice. The conversation wasn't too eventful since he is coming home March 20th. It was more us giving requests for trinkets for him to bring back with him. I'm excited to have him come home. I will be pretty pregnant at that point and when I was really pregnant with Emma he was the only one who could pop my back while I stood up (I'm 5'4" and he is 6'6").

I will post pictures when we get home. I hope you all had a nice holiday!