Hey.

Wanna see something gross?

This, my friends, would be yellowish-brownish ice frozen INSIDE MY HOUSE.

Yet another tale to add to my collection of house horror stories.

So this really came about as a combination of two things:

1. We have a lovely large space heater that emits water vapor when it is heating our house. This leads to our windows constantly fogged up and dripping water. Constantly. The water here dripped down to the base of the door and was frozen from the cold air blowing in from outside.

2. There is a little gap between the floor and the bottom of the door. See?

Well you can't really see because there is ice in the way. Nevertheless, snow gets blown under there and then water drips down on top of it, freezing everything into ice.

This makes a nice little ice coating around the bottom of our door. In fact, it freezes our door shut. So much so that every time Seth and I go in and out of that back door (we never use the front) we have to break the ice and yank it open.

This afternoon when Seth decided to go out and shovel the walkway some, he couldn't even get it open for fear of breaking the door. So he got a hammer and one of his nail sets and chipped away at it until he could safely open the door.

The aftermath.

Seth and I have theorized that the ice is yellowish-brownish because it dripped down through all the cracks in the door. And though we scrubbed this house clean, I'm pretty sure I couldn't get all the years worth of disgustingness out of the cracks of the door. Please don't judge me.

The door-freezing has been particularly bad this week because the high for the day hasn't even gotten above 30 degrees.

I drove Seth to class every morning this week because the temperatures were between -3 and 3 degrees at 8 o'clock in the morning.

Countdown to Arizona and beautiful warm weather: 8 days

(On a side note, I talked to my mother yesterday. She wanted to warn me that it was unnaturally cool in Arizona. Why, it was even dipping into the 50s!

....I just laughed at her.)

I am in love...

...with our new heated blanket.

I don't think I ever said thanks in this video, but then again I think it is obvious that I am very grateful. Thanks to Seth's parents for an early Christmas present! I still cannot figure out how I didn't own one before this because it seems essential for a 100+ degree weather-lovin' girl like me.

And it came just in time because this morning we woke up to this:

Snow on Sundays is undoubtedly the worst for females because you are required to go outside in the snow in church shoes and a skirt. And surprisingly enough, those items aren't very conducive to snowy conditions.

Wintertime makes me jealous of boys.

Stop Voldemort

This stop sign is located on UVU campus.

I like to drive by it in the mornings.

It makes me happy to be at school.

Egg Nog Wars

Whenever Seth or I think of something we need at the grocery store, we write it down on our little whiteboard in the kitchen.

This past week Seth wrote EGG NOG, so huge it covered half the whiteboard.

I promptly crossed it out. Egg Nog is disgusting and I don't want it.

He rewrote it.

I crossed it out again.

He rewrote it again.

I crossed it again.

This pattern went on for about a week.

Until Seth came up with something else to write on the whiteboard.

I thought it was very clever and it made me laugh, so I left it alone.

And today, I bought this for him:

I said I would buy it for him if he promised to finish all of his thank-you cards before we left for Christmas Break. (We are so close! And I am very determined.

I WILL FINISH MY WEDDING THANK YOU'S. I WILL!!)

So I guess it was a tie.

Seth gets his Egg Nog, I get to cross off my goal.

And we stay happily married.

Hiking the Y

Yesterday we went and hiked the Y.

Hopefully this negates some of the gluttonous eating we've been partaking of all week.

David spent most of his time way ahead of us.

Katie spent most of her time complaining and trying to rest for as long as possible.

The rest of us were somewhere in between.

The view from the top was lovely though.

My family left this morning and we have done nothing all day.

We're not ready for our break to be over yet.