Snow Day!

 
Living in Ohio allows us to experience Snow Days. I get a phone call about 5:30 in the morning saying school has been delayed for 2 hours. About 8:00 I get another phone call saying school is closed for the day. We had two snow days last week. Darrin and I decided to venture out in the "heavy storm" and go for a walk to the park across the street to see the Christmas lights. We had a whole 2 inches of snow on the ground (it was freezing cold though)!!
Snow days are wonderful when you are a teacher!

Gingerbread Houses!

Every year my mom makes hundreds of gingerbread houses (well maybe not hundreds but she makes a lot). We always have families over to decorate them. This is one of my favorite Christmas traditions so I thought I would give it a try and start it out here in Ohio. I made 7 houses and they all stayed standing! :)

We had families over two different nights to decorate. We had a great time with our friends. We feel so blessed to have such great friends out here. It sure makes it a lot easier to be away from family.

Our gingerbread house this year has a dog named Clifford and a dog house with a food and water dish. Darrin also added a porch over our front door, we have an igloo in the back and Santa's face on the side.

$1.93 for gas?!?!

Yes, we paid $1.93 for gas today.

Squirrel

Living out here in Ohio allows us to experience new things almost every day. One thing that we don't have back in Utah are white squirrels. We have white squirrels here in Ohio but we have had a hard time getting a picture of them. They are fast little creatures. We usually see them at the park across from our apartment or running across the power lines. The other day I opened our blinds and there was a white squirrel sitting on the garbage outside. I grabbed my camera and I was able to get a few pictures of this little guy.