Woohoo...!

Snow!  

I love snow!!

This is the Monday before Christmas.

The princess

Have I mentioned that three years ago we were blessed with a little princess?

No, seriously.  Here's the proof.  

Brynley snacking on whip cream.  

It doesn't get any better than that.

All hands, brace for impact...

Last week I had one of those "oh, crap" moments.  I was heading home from work and while checking traffic around me I found that the traffic in front of me had come to a complete stop.

OH, CRAP!

This is when I slam on the brakes, the car barely feels like it is stopping and the car in front of me is getting closer and closer.

Then you reach the point where your mind realizes you aren't going to stop in time and you start praying it doesn't hurt to bad or do to much damage.

And queue the CRUNCH!

As you can see it really didn't look that bad and I actually drove the car for a couple of days until I dropped it off at the repair shop.  Of course, between the insurance and the shop it takes forever to get to where the car is actually being repaired.

Hopefully we will see it done by the end of this week.

Hmm? What's that?  The other car?  Sorry, didn't I mention anything about that?

That would have been the nice gentleman in his 2007 yellow Porsche Cayman.

This is about all I saw of his car.  Squished those little bumps around his license plate nice and flat and left a few scratches on the bumper.  Yeah..........

Why go for a small domestic car, when there's a nice exotic right there in front of you.

I like to do it right if I'm going to do it at all.

Oh, and thanks to the nice highway patrolman who helped us off the freeway so we didn't add anymore problems the ones we already had that night.

Mmmm, rhubarb

We finished cleaning out the garden this weekend. Goodbye all you crazy tomato plants and cauliflower. Afterward, we trotted over to our neighbors house and dug up a few rhubarb roots to start our own plants.

Can I tell you how excited I was for that. She has given us some the past couple of years and it makes the best pies! Love that tartness. Looking forward to next summer.

Happy Birthday, Braden!

Braden celebrated his eighth birthday on Monday. He asked to have a friend party this year, so we rented Lego Batman for the week. He had six of his friends over and they had a great time playing that and Jenga and Dominoes. They kind of rotated between the games. We were glad they had so much fun.

In the meantime, I was out working the truck. We've been experiencing a coolant leak and decided it was the water pump. So I picked up the parts for that along with a new serpentine belt. I had to call Cheyne to find out how to get a fan clutch off these days. He suggested a tool rental from Checker Auto. It worked great! Whew! Three hours and it was all back together and I was ready to eat. (Oh yeah, they gave us a half day off for our software release celebration. Sweet!)

The rest of the week was spent playing Lego Batman with Braden in between responsibilities. We managed to get to about 62% with no cheat codes. Woot! I asked him at the end of the week if he liked it and if we should still buy it. It was a definitive "YES! It's awesome!" That's a good thing. ;)

He is really looking forward to his baptism on November 1. He is also excited about his new scriptures and was so happy to take them to church today. To bad they were practicing for the Primary Program coming up.