More Pictures from Last Week

Here's some more pictures and stories from this last week. This story is a classic. One day my mother and I were talking and somehow it came up with her saying, jokingly, that every grandmother has a crocheted kleenex box cover. So, Taylor and I thought it would be so funny to find the ugliest kleenex box cover, wrap it up for Christmas, and say "To Nana, From Isaac." So, here are some pictures from that...it was priceless!

My dad had just opened a nice gift from Isaac that was an "Ahh..." gift, so I think my mom was expecting something all sentimental...it was funny.




So, Saturday, Dec. 29 was our 2 year wedding anniversary! Wahoo!! I love anniversaries. We have made it a goal to go to the temple for every anniversary and do sealings at the temple, so we thought we'd take advantage of having my family in town to watch Isaac, so we went up to the Idaho Falls Temple on Thursday night...it was a great night. (We went out to dinner on Saturday night together and bought a new big bookcase for our house...I am SO excited...Taylor is going to put it together tomorrow, I'll have to post the before and after pics when it's done).

Then on Friday morning, we did something we haven't done in almost a decade. We had family pictures taken of my mom's entire side of the family. We got up EARLY and drove up to Idaho Falls for them. Here are some that we took ourselves...I am hoping the one that she took of our individual family turns out well so I can blow it up and frame it...I'm crossing my fingers!!

So, I mentioned that we had to get up EARLY for these pictures, right?? My parents rode with us to Idaho Falls...this is them in the backseat on the way home...asleep! Taylor and I were laughing pretty hard...

So, another classic story. We get back to Blackfoot after the pictures, and I have to get back to work for the afternoon and we are literally yards from the house (my grandparents live at the end of a lane) and Taylor drove right into a three foot snow drift. We were definitely stuck. When we left in the morning, there was a small snow drift and we noticed it, but when we got back Taylor completely forgot about it and went right into it. We thought "Oops, oh well..." because my dad had his truck at the house and we thought it would be a simple deal to just pull us out...wrong again. There wasn't a place to hook the tow rope on the Camry, so they were having a hard time figuring out how we'd get out...they got shovels and tried to dig us out, then they thought about putting the snow chains around the tire or behind the tire to see if that would give us traction, they even tried to open the trunk and look the tow rope around the bars that lift the trunk lid...nope!! After about 30 minutes of freezing for the boys and sitting in the car for Isaac, my mom and myself, Taylor found a place where they could put the rope and we were out...I tried to capture the amount of snow and how stuck we were, but I don't think the pictures give it justice...

You can tell in the above picture just how close we were to the house.