White Christmas?

"Dreaming of a White Christmas"....  Last week (Dec. 14th) was our first snowfall of 2008 and exciting day, a little snow dusting and nothing out of the normal for this time of the season, little did we know how the week would turn out.  The last couple of days we have had numerous sustained snow showers that have covered most of the state in a white winter wonder land.  It has been fun, annoying, exciting and at times scary.

For our commute home from work on Thursday, what is normally an average of 30 minutes turned into a long and tiresome four and a half hour trek.  It had been snowing all day long and we left work around 5 p.m. with and adventure in front of us.  We started off well taking side roads but a few bad route decisions later we found our self's suck in a a long and treacherous drive home, but with patients and cautiousness we made it home by 9:30 p.m.

The days following our long adventure have been a lot more fun and picturesque, "where the treetops glisten and children listen to hear sleigh bells in the snow".  We have ventured out a few times to work, the mall and to visit friends, with four wheel drive on the Blazer the trips have been pretty easy even with highway speeds of only about 30 to 40 mph, and side roads a little slower.  Every morning we wake to see if it has snowed some more (which we both hope it does) hoping we don't have to go to work, we haven't missed a day yet but next week it could change if the weather keeps up.

A couple of nights this week we have made a trip to a friends house about 10 miles from us, to have dinner, wine, play board games and share some laughs.  After rounding down the evening we head home to see our little cat Luna and our dog Apollo.  With the snow thick and fluffy we like to take Apollo out to play a little, in some areas the snow will come up to his chest.  We also thought a few pictures of Luna (normally an indoor cat) in the snow would be cute, so we drug the poor little girl out to get her paws in the white powder, she didn't like it too much being her first experience with snow.  Apollo on the other hand love his time outside, running all over the place and hopping around like a little rabbit.

We look forward to this coming week as there is to be more snow and with Christmas around the corner we would love to see more snowfall.  Again a reminder Seattle has only had snowfall on Dec. 25, three time in the past  99 years.

We're dreaming of a white Christmas!

Christmas a little early!

We just set up our Christmas Tree, a whole week before Thanksgiving.  We have been waiting to set it up since we bought it at the end of the season last year.  We also purchased our first set of decorations recently and are excited to start the season early.  This will be our first Christmas since getting hitched in May.  We listen to Christmas music on the radio in the morning and round down the nights with hot cocoa and made for t.v. Christmas movies on TBS.   The chill is in the air as the temperature has dropped below freezing a couple of days in the last week.  A fresh snow would be welcome as to bring more of that holiday spirit we crave.  While there has been snow on the ground for Christmas, in Seattle we've only experienced snowfall on December 25th five times since 1909, so we will cross our fingers for a white Christmas.  

If we have the opportunity this year we plan to travel to a small town just east of the Cascade Mountain Range call Leavenworth (see the added photo), a small Bavarian town great to visit during Oktoberfest and Christmas.  With Pino's new 1996 Chevrolet Blazer (new to him) with four wheel drive it should be a safe and adventurous  trip.

As the holiday season progresses we hope to keep you updated on the latest in our neck of the woods, with new pictures and more posts of our early Christmas!

WHAT'S NEW?

Pino is still working at Competition Specialties.  It is hard to believe he as been there 6 months already.  He likes the job but he still has his heart set on becoming a police officer.  Unfortunately, he injured his knee about a month ago playing football.  Pino has been doing physical therapy twice a week trying to make his knee stronger.  We will find out more about how severe he really hurt his knee in December.

Traci has started her Farmers Insurance business and is working hard to get it off the ground.  Right now she can only work Farmers in her spare time as she is still working full time as a manager for Cellular World (AT&T).  She hopes to be a full time agent by February.