my excuse...

I've been terribly slow at posting here lately....life has been crazy!! Here's a few things that have been keeping me preoccupied:

• The weather -- my goodness I've never seen so much snow and ice and drifts in my entire life! Ok, maybe that's not exactly true, but it sure has been a doozy of a winter! Good thing I like snow! :)
• My job -- the last 2 months at my job have been awful. We lost one employee (she found a better job) and another injured her ankle in a freak sledding accident. And she's 60 years old. Weird. This normally would not have been a huge problem, but our other three branches were experiencing deaths in the family, and another girl got in a bad car accident where she broke her leg, a rib, and her 4 year old also broke his leg. Craziness!! So we've been running our tails off, to say the least. But they hired a new girl last week, and my aged sledding friend is back at work, so things should start looking up... :)
• Sickness -- two weeks ago, Joe had an awful cold and lost his voice, so we dealt with that. And now this week, I've been battling a horrible cold and just found out today that it's the beginning of walking pneumonia. Joy. So that's been.....exhausting...
• Everthing else -- meanwhile we've been continuing with our normal activities -- youth group adventures, visiting friends, sledding parties, etc. etc.

Hopefully now life will slow down a little so I can post more regularly!

Can anyone explain this??

Today, as we walked into our house after spending the afternoon at a family get together, we noticed something unusual on our shed roof. Any ideas on why the snow fell off the middle and not the ends?? :)

the weather outside is frightful...

Today, I was astonished to look out the window and see flurries of snow! It wasn't enough to stay on the ground, but it solidified my sneaking suspicion that winter is just around the corner. In fact, it's already here! Tomorrow the high is only supposed to be 39 degrees! Yikes!