Unfortunately..... Fortunately.....

Unfortunately.....
Well, we were supposed to go home to California on Monday, but the weather over donner pass was too bad for us to go. Sadly, we decided we needed to wait for Wednesday :(

Fortunately....
My best cousin friend in the world was here in Boise with her family for Christmas! She came in Sunday night, and we weren't going to be able to hang out very much. But now we could! So we had a treat day! We made about a thousand cookies and built gingerbread houses! It was a much needed wonderful cousin day. Cody and Jeff tried to help, but they weren't as enthusiastic about the whole thing. :) So in the end, I was glad we had to wait a couple of days to leave! :)

peanut butter balls

snow balls

carmel chocolate cookies with white chocolate on the top! yum!

sewing time with grandma

For the past few days my grandma has been in town! She's been staying at my cousins' house, but I was over there all day yesterday and today. I recently got a sewing machine for my birthday, and I had my first pattern and material all ready to go, but no one to teach me! So my wonderful grandma helped me through it! We had fun. Turns out the "easy" pattern I chose (with help from a Joanne's lady) was not as easy as I thought. It looked easy to me, but I was wrong. It involved scallops and gathering, which are not really beginner things. But with a little help from grandma, I think I did pretty well!

a slow start..

So I finished student teaching, and I was pretty excited to make some money subbing! But here I am...sitting on my couch... not working. There are hardly any sub jobs and I am having a hard time finding enough productive things to do! I've only had 3 days, and they were all last minute, emergency sort of things. I feel a little guilty for sitting around so much. I was expecting to get sub jobs almost every day and stay pretty busy. So I'm not sure if it's just a slow time of year for subbing, or if it's going to be like this for a while. Hopefully it gets better soon...

Baby it's cold outside

It's cold outside! The other day we woke up to a thick layer of white powder over everything! It is really pretty here with all the trees around. I drove Cody to work, then when I got home I decided to take a walk and enjoy it. It's beautiful, but freezing. And it hasn't gotten any warmer. The roads are hard to drive on and I'm always afraid I'm going to slip and fall. And I get tired of putting on 5 layers to walk from the apartment to the car. Too bad the snow isn't warm. :)

Cody hates putting lights on the tree. haha. here he is being frustrated.

23!

Thank you to everyone who made my birthday special! It was just me and Cody here, but all the phone calls and presents from my family and friends made it great! I had a good day just hangin out by myself. :) I slept in, watched TV, put up some Christmas decorations and it was wonderful. I went to Walmart and went to lunch at Fuddruckers to get my free birthday lunch! I ate an 8 dollar salad for free! It was awesome. Then for dinner, I met Cody at Chili's! Then after dinner I blew out the candles, ate cake and opened my presents! Thanks family for the purse, the cookbook, and the Christmas platter! (My family is also paying for us to come for Christmas!) Thanks grandma for money for my SEWING MACHINE!, the fuzzy blanket and the PJs. Thanks Carla for the card and the money! Cody got me my sewing tools and money to go get a pattern! :)