Snow Snow Snow!

Yesterday was the first official snow day Las Vegas has seen in 29 years! Although the snow had already begun melting, they canceled school anyway. Wednesday was a winter wonderland! It snowed at our house all day long and we got about 2 1/2 " here. Other places around the valley got up to 8". It was weird to see the desert blanketed in white. The Airport came to a standstill since they don't keep snow equipment on hand. People were going crazy!
We still have a little snow here and there, but the sun has come back out and it has warmed up...but not much!
My mom keeps me updated of the weather up in Seattle, and i'm hoping we can fly in ok next week! They are really getting hit hard with the snow and ice up there...There's a good chance we'll have a white Christmas!

Look! Its Nick and I!

Yes, it SNOWED in Las Vegas yesterday! Pretty crazy if you ask me. We had been hearing about all the snow up in Seattle and all the storms coming through elsewhere that we got a little jealous. :) It snowed at our house pretty much all day long, but nothing stuck. Just north of us however, got 4 inches! It was pretty exciting to see a winter wonderland right before Christmas.

I went to visit Grandma in Anaheim last week and it is a good thing I left when I did. I was planning on staying a few days longer, but all the talk about a storm blowing through made me change my mind. I had to drive home by myself since Nick was on a business trip in Salt Lake. I came home Saturday morning and passed through some icky weather, but nothing too bad. Yesterday I heard on the news that they had closed the pass from Las Vegas to Southern California due to all the snow fall. Whew!! I made it.

I had a good time in Anaheim for the little time I was there. I got to spend some quality time with Grandma. We went out to eat a lot and of course we went shopping. Her back yard is coming along nicely. The facelift on the pool looks fantastic and I can't wait to go swimming in it!

This is the new waterfall into the hot tub. I bet it will look pretty cool when its on!
All the old tile was removed and pebble was put in. Looks very nice!

.....and someday I will get one of these....... They've been sitting out by the pool since before I can remember!

This is one of my favs hanging on the wall at Grandma's :) what a cutie!

Baking Day

On Monday December 1, all the ladies of the family got together for the annual baking day. This year was my first time and I had a great time. I was a little nervous what everyone was saying about it and how intense it can be. It was actually kind of relaxing. We all went to Aunt Suze's house and began the day early. We dipped A LOT in chocolate! :) Chocolate covered oreos, pretzels, nutty bars, marshmallows on sticks, and there was also, homemade almond roca, "salty nuts" and Grandma called them (they were actually sweet), drop cookies, lollypops, candy canes and so much more! At the end we split it all up between all of us to take to friends, parties, etc. I ended up leaving with an overflowing Marie Calenders bag! It was a lot of fun being able to hang out with just the girls. Can't wait till next year!

We had our new bed delivered on Monday night and it has been the best sleep we have had in a LOOOOONNNNGGGG time! We finally decided to go down to the mattress store on Black Friday and decided hands down on the Tempur-pedic. With a little help from Dr. Edwards we were finally able to get a good nights sleep! They say that you will probably hate this bed the first week or so because your body has to adjust to something different. By the second night we slept like babys! I guess our old bed was just that bad. I reccommend this bed to anyone and everyone!!

This Thanksgiving week has been pretty fun.
Monday, I picked up our Nieces, Dominique and Gabby from school, and they got to hang out with Aunt Ashley for a while. After the girls did their homework we played a grueling game of Twister and some Cranium.

After playin around for a while, we were starving! We decided to make some personal size pizzas. The girls had a lot of fun kneading the dough and adding all their favorite toppings. Dominique was the only brave one to toss her dough. She's basically a professional.

The rest of the week we got ready for Thanksgiving! We stayed in Las Vegas and went to Aunt Suzie and Uncle Wayne's house with the rest of the family on Thursday. We had a DELISH dinner with everyone! After dinner we scoped out the ads for Black Friday then went with some cousins to see Four Christmases..Funny movie! I was supposed to go out shopping with my sis in law Sylvia at midnight but I chickened out.

Nick and I went out on Friday after sleeping in for a while. I wanted to get some things at JoAnns and Nick was nice enough to come with. Little did I know that you had to take a number to get something cut, and it was going to take 4 hours!! Nick and I made a little fort into one of the shelves and camped out there for about an hour and a half. After that long, I wanted to leave. It was already miserable. We went to In and Out Burger, then to Walmart to see what all the hype was. It was still crazy, but not as crazy as what I heard it was that morning at 5. Supposedly a worker in New York was trampled and killed that morning by all the crazy shoppers. My brother Dallin said that he was working from 5-7 when the shoppers busted in, and he said he had to run for his life to get out!! yikes! After we were done at Walmart we thought of going back to JoAnns to humor ourselves. When we walked in, they were almost to our number and so we went back to our shelf and all our stuff was still sitting there! It was awesome! :) We went a few more places and even bought our new bed! :) It comes tonight and we cannot wait! It will be so nice to finally sleep through the night.

After a long day of shopping we went to Nicks brother Mikes house to have dinner with Mike, Sylvia and Dominique. It was nice to just relax and talk with them.

On Saturday we went with Mike and Sylvia to their friends house up in Indian Springs to go shooting. It was my first time shooting a hand gun, and it was CRAZY! The kickback on that thing is rediculous!! I think I shot a lot better with the other one. I forgot what it was called, but absolutely no kickback and very quiet. Nick kept saying how bad he was, and after his first round, blew everyone away! He's so modest!

Sunday night was the Chesniks (Nicks cousin) Christmas party/ November birthdays party. We had yummy "Chicken Pillows" and lots of other good stuff. We celebrated Sylvia, Becky, and Amy's birthdays. We also played a long game of Christmas Carol Pictionary. It was just a riot!

Today was the annual baking day for all the women in the family. There will be more to come!....

So, after much bugging from everyone I am finally putting together our blog. I am still trying to figure out how everything works, so it may take a little while to get used to everything! Be patient! :)