how high's the snowfall mama? 2 feet high and rising

i hope trey enjoys the title of this post. my boss told me that we were supposed to get at least 6 inches of snow, so i filled up my gas tank on the way home from work on tuesday. i was looking for a bottle of heet in my car for the gas tank, but that rascal joshua took my last one.
-this is a snow drift that i pushed josh into

i was off of work yesterday, so i went to wal-mart for some heet and a few other things, and already the snow was a few inches thick. i had trouble pushing the cart through all the ruts in the snow.
josh was sent home from work early because the mall was closed. (with only 5 days until christmas!) there were also parts of the interstate and the boulder turnpike that were closed.

-here's me next to my car

i made some mallows and some more hot chocolate mix to tide us over. then josh was bored and since i had forgotten some things from the store, we decided to try to drive to walmart. the roads weren't that bad, and we were just about the only idiots out. but walmart was closed! i wonder whether my co-workers were stuck at the store since it is open 24 hours. this morning it was still a snow emergency, and the mall is closed again, so josh and i are apartment bound. it is supposed to stop snowing soon, so the roads should be plowed this evening. the mail was not delived yesterday, and it is not going to be here today either. i can't imagine how many packages are stuck at the post office. i know at least three for me; on amazon it says "delayed due to external problems." i though nothing was supposed to stop the mail. except holidays and bad weather i guess.

how many cars are in this picture?

Zelda's video

zelda was having fun jumping through the snow drifts this morning

you’ll want to knock it up a notch with a blast from your spice weasel-elzar

on saturday i got a package from my wonderful great aunt carol. it had two loaves of bread in it, and although i appreciated them, all i could think was "no carmels?" but they were hiding in the bottom of the box and i tore into them immediately. yum yum, i love carol's carmels. the bread is delicious too, i had some for breakfast.

yesterday, i made my first turkey dinner. i only had turkey, potatoes, stuffing and cranberry sauce, but it was very tasty. i made a glaze from cuisine at home that uses pomegrante juice and balsamic vinegar. they also use a roasting technique that cooks the legs first and then the breast so all the meat is done at the same time. i didn't have my usual timing problem, everything was hot when we ate it and more importantly, i can have a turkey sandwich! (i just have to go get some miracle whip first)

nobody destroy kif, unless you have to

i love the smell of pine trees. this year, i decided that i wanted a real tree, instead of that stinky fake one from last year. so josh and i went to a nearby garden center where they advertised "premium christmas trees." but when we got there, we looked and looked and couldn't find any outside, so we went in and searched the whole store, but didn't see them finally we gave up and asked, and they were hiding through a slidy door! (there was no sign that said "trees through here) but (almost) every tree was perfect. we got a beautiful frasier fir and the people baled it and tied to the car.
we decided to go with red and green (the lights are green) i bought lots of cute ornaments on sale last year that i can use this year. you can't seem them very well, but there's stripey ones, gingerbread men, candy canes, and those round mints. the same day we got the tree i got bride ornaments from mamsis, so i used those too. i decorated the apartment and even set up my alpine village. now that my shopping is all done and shipped, i can enjoy christmas and start baking and making candy. josh got me egg nog creams from fannie may, and i've been limiting myself to one per day. but i've also been drinking it and today i made an egg nog latte, and it was pretty close to the ones from starbucks. next i'll try egg nog ice cream and egg nog chai. yum yum!

the rest of the dominos will fall like a house of cards-checkmate

usually on my three day weekends, i laze about enjoying my time away from work. this past weekend, i actually accomplished something. i only have one more person on my christmas list. and i sent out all my christmas cards.
on sunday i baked like mad. i made a cake for one of the pharmacists that was leaving. and goodies for swipes. hopefully she gets her package before she reads this, otherwise she won't be suprised. but i was very martha stewart and made marshmallows to go with the hot chocolate and cut them into tiny christmas shapes. and i also went to the post office three times in four days (it would have been three times in three days, but they were closed on sunday). but i needed a money order and i had to buy winter stamps and mail packages (on two different days). luckily we never got the same person twice, otherwise they may have thought we liked hanging out there.

pine cone turkey poem part 2

this is the poem that went along with the pine cone turkey (he's holding it in his hand) that he made in elementary school

pine cone turkey part one

this is john refusing to read the poem, sorry it's so dark, there was wood on the walls