Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving. It is a time to hang with the ones you love and create fun memories. Well, we did! We went off to my haven, that means we left Farmington, and spent several days in the mountains. To our surprise our trip became a winter wonderland!! Our "black Friday" became a very white Friday!

When we arrived, there was not a speck of snow ANYWHERE!! The ski season is looking a bit bleak for the area. But, when we woke up the day after Thansgiving, we had a winter wonderland. It snowed about 12 inches overnight and kept snowing throughout the day. We already had tickets for a cool train ride through the mountains, so we went out on our trip and enjoyed lots of hot, hot, hot, hot chocolate (Imagine the Polar Express song for that one!! Kids sang it the whole time we were on the train!) And the kids had a blast creating their snow angels and throwing snowballs at their parents! Don't we all enjoy that?!

With the new white weather, Bjak had the perfect opportunity to take his new Jeep out to play in the snow. I preferred not to be in the ride for that because I prefer the vehicle to be stopped in wintery weather rather than sliding all over the road! What can I say? Guess I was in Texas too long, because now I am known as "Little Tex!"

My first entry

Here it is. The first entry I have for my new blog to keep everyone up to date and informed. Granted, my life is not near as exciting as the WONDERFUL new changes for my pal Kelli. And I don't have near the work drama that my best buddy Miss Amanda has...I know that is hard to believe, but it is true. Life here is just steadily going by without too many complaints. I just miss so many people in Allen and the DFW area and feel like I took for granted how well I had it in my other home.

It isn't the same, but we are making our way. The nice part is that Bjak has been great about making sure that I get out when the time comes or my fuse is getting a wee bit too close to the dynomite! The saving grace has been our continued trips up to Colorado. Granted there is absolutely NO snow there right now...we are hoping for a storm that is set to come in this week for our turkey trip...but we have had a great time going up for swimming in the lodge, a few fishing outtings, and trips to see the train. All in all that has been the best part of the move!

The kids have adapted VERY well to their surroundings. Joshua is doing so much better in school and has even started spending more and more time in a general ed class. Riley has taken to school like a duck to water. She loves to read now, and has already read over 20 books on her own in the last week and a half! That's my girl!!

Bjak has everything under the sun on his plate. He is working with his dad as well as working on a residential development, a medical billing company, and an open MRI company! He is a busy bee!

School here for me has been an experience. I mean that in the most generic of terms. It is just not the same. Hopefully, I will adjust, but I pray that I never conform to the norm at the school. If I do, someone slap me because that would mean I transformed into the yellow overhead teacher!! Yikes!