Snow, Pepper & Blue Man Group!

This weekend we had one of the biggest snowstorms in a long time & actually broke a record of the most snowfall in a 24hr period of 13.7 inches! The record was 13 inches back in 1950! Needless to say, we have a lot of snow with more still to come! One good thing about all this snow is the excellent skiing. Last Monday I headed up to Mt. Spokane with my good friend Kara & her boyfriend Deater for a day of skiing. Although the hight was only 10 degrees the skiing was great & we all had an awesome time. Last night, despite the awful roads, Greg & I went to the Blue Man Group concert at the Spokane Arena last night. Although not as good as the one we saw in Las Vegas it was still awesome. The picture here is of a large instrument they play made entirely out of PVC piping. I definately recommend the show to anyone heading to Vegas or anytime they come through your town. On another note, Pepper went for some routine vaccines this week & ended up with an allergic reaction to either one of them or a combination of both of them. He ended up with welts all over his head & neck & around both eyes! We had to rush him back to the vets office for some steroids before it started affecting his breathing. He is much better now.

Home Improvement Projects

With Christmas over & Greg & I getting settled back into normal routines, it is time start knocking some items off the continually growing home improvement list. Greg & his dad spent two days adding lighting to the garage, installing a garbage disposal, putting together a new barbecue, & fixing some shingles that had come loose during a wind storm.

Christmas Day!

This year, Christmas was spent with the entire Schlatter side of Greg's family. This year was a special one as it was our nephew's first Christmas. We spent the day opening & playing with gifts, eating, sleeping, eating, & visiting with family. Elijah was definately spoiled with gifts & although it wasn't surprising, enjoyed the boxes & ribbons more than the gifts. We had an awesome Christmas dinner of barbecued steak & shrimp. Although we didn't wake up to a white Christmas, we were welcomed with a gorgeous snowfall in the evening that continued on until Wednesday afternoon. Hope everyone else had as an enjoyable Christmas as us. We definately feel blessed to have what we have.

Ski Weekend

This weekend a friend & her boyfriend drove over from Seattle for some skiing. We headed up to Silver Mountain for the day & although the runs were limited due to the snow we still had a ton of fun. We even went tubing at the tube park & ended up crashing through the fence at the end resulting in the tube park getting shut down! On Sunday we went sightseeing in downtown Spokane & went walking through Riverfront Park in the snow. We all had a great time.

SNOW!!!

Last night we had our first snowfall of the season. Winter is definately here now & that means one thing. We will be hitting the slopes very soon. Our house is looking very festive with our driveway outlined in lights & our Christmas tree framed in the front window. This morning Pepper & I had fun playing in the snow in the front yard. Well, he played while I shoveled the driveway. Check out these pictures of the snow & some random ones of the 3 of us.

Thanksgiving 2007

This year Thanksgiving celebrations were at our house. We definitely had a full house. My parents & Patrick came, my Aunt Missy drove up from the Tri-Cities, my grandparents came, & Greg's parents showed up for dessert. Along with my parents came their dog Cooper. It was fun entertaining all those people & I think everyone had a good time. There was lots of good food including a baked turkey & a deep fried turkey along with all the things that go along with a thanksgiving turkey dinner. After dinner some went for a walk while others stayed behind & mapped out the Friday morning sales.

Greetings from Spokane!!

Apparently when you click on the icon "delete blog" it deletes the entire site & not just the last entry. So, all my past entries are now history. Oh well. We are finally settled in our home in Spokane. Due to some scheduling problems, we spent a week without any of our things. Once our moving truck finally showed up, it took about a week to get the main living areas unpacked & settled. The rest can wait until there is more time (& energy). The night before our things arrived we had our parents & my grandparents over for dinner which was provided by my parents. We sat in the living room in camping chairs & ate homemade soup. It was a lot of fun. Greg had to go back to work right away but I had a week off. It didn't seem like enough. Last week I started my new job & had a week long orientation. I started in my dept on ICU yesterday. OH MY!! What a difference from a med surg unit in a small hospital. It was all very overwhelming but what new job isn't. Enjoy these pics of the new house.
Greg painting the kitchen/dining room
Front of the house

Living Room

Mowing/Rotatilling the garden

Halloween 2007
(Doesn't he look happy!?)