DONE!!!

Oh my goodness! I haven't written in a while for two reasons: nothing has been going on, and I was busy studying for my final. Which, as of yesterday, is OVER! So now I only have four days until I move home! Yay!!!

Since the last time I blogged, not much has happened. The highlight of that time was the fact that it was FREEZING outside! Actually it's technically been freezing for like two weeks. I couldn't tell you the last time that it was above 32. But last week there were a few days that it didn't get above zero! It was CRAZY! I thought I would die every time I went outside. Especially since it's really windy here, so it was -20 after wind chill. It was pretty awesome. Not. Anyway, we're back up into the 20s now, and we have SO MUCH SNOW! Over the last couple of days we have gotten about a foot of snow. At least. I don't know, I'm not too good a judging that.

Rae's & my cars. The tire tracks in front of my car are where I had driven out a few minutes before. Such deep snow!


Down our street.


The front of our house (buried walkway!). Sorry for the crooked photography.


The mountain behind our house!

I also did some Christmas shopping last week. Nothing major, but it was fun still. It's not quite as enjoyable when you have absolutely no money! Oh well.

So I had my final yesterday at 8 AM and I am SO glad to be done!!! Now I have to spend the next few days packing. I don't have any boxes because I stupidly forgot to bring them from my parents' house after Thanksgiving, so I need to call some grocery stores to see if they save boxes for poor people who are moving (like me...). Hopefully I'm successful! I really don't want to pay for boxes. I guess at the absolute worst I could put my clothes in grocery bags; we have plenty of those. LOL. Let's hope it doesn't come to that.

So, my dad and Bryan are driving over here on Friday. Fun for them! That's about all I have to talk about for now...I'm sure the big move will provide an entertaining post next week.

FYI--10 days until Christmas. WHAT!?

Thanksgiving

I have been hesitant to write this post because I COMPLETELY forgot to take any pictures over Thanksgiving weekend! Crap!!! So I'll try to keep it short because, let's face it, no one wants to read a blog without pictures.

Tuesday afternoon at about 1:30 Rae and I headed out of Missoula, Oregon-bound. The mountain passes were clear, except for a few spots of ice. Yay! We got to Albany at around 10:00...I think? Wednesday, I went to get my traditional "I'm in town" brow & lip wax from my Auntie Heather. It could be the reason I come to town...lol. Then I headed over to the Halls' and pretty much spent the rest of the day there hanging out with the fam.

Thanksgiving! Thursday, I headed to the Halls' around noon, and then we all went on to the Hays' for dinner at 1:00 pm. I stuffed myself, and I had such a great time with Bryan's family! I love them. =) Then Bryan and I headed to my parents' house for dinner part deux at 5:00 pm. Lucky for us, my family has no real concept of time, so dinner was closer to 6:30 or 7:00 pm. I'm not often thankful for the lateness, but I was that day! And how fitting, on Thanksgiving. We spent the rest of the night at my house, and Bryan left at around 1:30 am after we finished watching the movie "The Taking of Pelham 123" with my dad.

On Friday, Bryan and I did some shopping, although not until noon! We just browsed the sales, nothing major. We just hung out at his house the rest of the day, then had pizza and watched the Blazer game with Tanner and Brittney at night.

Saturday, Bryan and I had to go to Shane Co. because I found out that the center diamond in my ring was loose! We had that fixed (and got it cleaned as well--I had forgotten how sparkly my ring is!!), then headed over to Kyle and Jenna's house for a visit. They were having a lazy Saturday, and we crashed it! We just hung out and chatted for an hour or so. I don't know! Bryan and I then had lunch at Panera Bread in Cedar Hills. (We originally headed in that direction because Bryan wanted Jamba Juice, but we never ended up getting Jamba. Oops!) We then hung out at my parents' house for awhile, and that night watched "My Sister's Keeper" with Sue and Brittney. Tanner was the lame boyfriend and only came in like halfway through. Haha!

Anyway, Sunday, Rae and I had to head out early. We left at around 9:30 am. I am sad to be back but glad that I'm in the home stretch of living here! Only 16 days until I get to move home! =)

SORRY that this didn't actually end up being a short blog, and if you've actually read this far, I commend you. I should've known that I couldn't possibly NOT be wordy...sigh.