Finishing Up Christmas...

Okay, so I put "to be continued..." at the bottom of my last post with the hopes that I would remember to take some pictures at my in-laws house and post those on here as well, but I forgot to take pictures!! Oh well, here's what I got!

1. A mug tree! (It's so cute, it's cast-iron and has 6 really big mugs to go on it)
2. Picture Frames that actually match! (I've REALLY been needing these, and they're also super cute - a black border with brown on the inner border)
3. Some cute stuff to decorate my kitchen (it says "Cafe" and it's made out of wood, it will look awesome on my red wall once I get shelfs for it, but for now it makes a really cute center piece for my table, then there's also a cute dish for serving appetizers or breads or something that I just love)

Then Jon got...
1. A 2-burner propane heater for ice fishing (Yay! Now I'll be even more toasty warm inside our tent!)
2. A gift card to Game Crazy so he can get more videogame stuff (eh.) <---Just kidding Josh, it's awesome!

It was really fun being over there and being able to watch all of the nieces and nephews open their presents (they are just so dang cute!) and being able to see Jon's family and stuff. Anyway, that was the end of our Christmas, now for some stories that happened slightly before Christmas!

First, my neighbor made some cookies for us, and her daughter Cameron (who is 7) wanted to come and give them to us (she's my partner in killing weeds and spiders). So she came over on Christmas Eve, only she didn't quite make it to the door. I heard my dogs barking outside, and after a while decided to go get them to be quiet, only when I went outside I saw that they had Cameron cornered just inside my fence! She had her hands up by her face and was too scared to move, so I called the dogs over and put them in the house and went to go help her. That poor girl had tears just streaming down her face and I'm asking her if she's okay and if the dogs tried to bite her or anything (luckily they didn't!), and she holds out the cookies and says, "My m-mom m-m-made these f-for you...M-m-m-merry Chris-(sniffle)-tmas". It just broke my heart, I felt so bad! Especially since she usually comes over to play with them! I've never seen my dogs act like that before, I mean sure they bark, but usually it's at people who aren't scared of them so they back off. I've never seen them bark like that at a kid before. I'm sure Molly was just wanting to play and was giving in to the influence of Ricky, but I think that Ricky forgot I was home and was trying to "protect" our house. It's a good thing they're both lap dogs and couldn't really do any harm, but I still felt bad. Don't worry though, Cameron was okay and she even invited me over to see her Christmas presents a few days later. :)

The other story happened the Tuesday before Christmas. Jon and I decided to go ice-fishing so he could try out his new powered ice-auger. So we got home from work around 2AM, went to bed around 2:30-2:45AM, and then woke up at 3AM (at least that was my schedule, Jon just didn't sleep because he was too excited). Once we were driving and heading towards Scofield I started to doze off. Well, around Provo area (this is about 4:45AM) Jon is cruising along at about 65 or so with the cruise-control on, when he hits some black ice! The roads were perfectly clear before that, but suddenly there it was! So he says something (I can't remember what) and it wakes me up to our truck swerving over all three or four lanes of traffic while Jon's trying to get control of the truck! As we're sliding, I'm preparing for us to crash, especially when we were turned and facing/sliding towards the center barrier. As I'm going through my mental checklist for the impact (I had a neck pillow which was good, seatbelt, I was bracing myself by holding onto the door, but then tried to relax so that the crash wouldn't hurt as bad...) we turned again and faced oncoming traffic! We had done a complete 180 before we stopped sliding! Luckily, traffic was still clear back behind us, so Jon had time to get the truck turned around and back on track. I was still in shock while Jon starts doing one of those laughs that you get after you almost die and saying how scary that was and stuff, and we started to slide again! Don't worry though, this was a tiny slide that Jon in his amazing driving skills was able to pull out of, but I still freaked out and started crying and telling Jon that I didn't want to slide anymore (keep in mind that I had been sleeping, so my mind was all over the place!). He got me calmed down and we quickly realized that we hadn't said a prayer before leaving, so we hurried and said one right then, definitely letting our thanks be known for protecting us already! I'm just so glad that Jon is good at getting out of slides like that - if it had been me I would have just crashed! Plus it wouldn't have been as bad if we hadn't had the cruise control on, that's what got us out of control in the first place. But we're okay now. :)

So with those fun stories and the fun drive through Sardine Canyon on Christmas day (it was a white-out for a bit, but we made it!) it was a very eventfull holiday. Let's just hope that New Year's goes by without incident! :) Happy New Year everyone!