Here we come 2010! Hopefully with the new year come less issues with family....they're really starting to pile up around here! We had a nice long snowy christmas....who knew so much could fall in such a short time! I'm extremely glad we talked grandma into leaving work early wednesday so Hubby and I could go visit with the Wyoming relatives....oh how I miss the miles and miles of nothing out there! We intended on only staying for a short time, but we were having too much fun! Syd and grandma held grandmas house down for what turned out to be about 3 hours! After that we did a lot of nothing but play Wii....we opened it early since we knew church was cancelled for the next night already and that's normally what happens before presents....which meant cole, caley, daddy and mommy had LOTS of fun with the new toy for hmm....oh yeah, 5 whole days! I got rather restless at the end of our stay at grandmas and couldn't wait to get home....Syd  misses the attention she gets there, the cat hates the car ride to and from.....and me and daddy....we just couldn't wait for our own house again! We just ran into a few issues when we got here....

See that house way down on the end....yeah, that's ours! We had kind of an uh oh moment when we drove up! The street was a one laner to begin with....then we had to somehow make it through there to find our house! The worst part was it had been completely cleaned out the day before, so all THAT was from saturday night to sunday afternoon!

Luckily my trusty chevy had new tires....but it didn't get any better...

That one was deep enough Syd and I sat in the car and waited for a path to the garage...I should have taken one of the side of the house not pictured, that drift is as tall as the neighbors fence, which means it's a gorgeous 6 footer!

And the good news....we won't be using the sliding door until JUNE! I'm no shorty, and that drift was chest high when I stood by the door! Hubby was worried about the broken insulation so he took on the task of using his snowblower on the patio.

All snowdrifts set aside I learned one thing when we got home....new top of hubbys wish list will be a bigger snow blower....

The neighbor reminded him just how bad his snow blower needs to grow up! Luckily we have awesome neighbors down the street and he was nice enough to come help with the driveway....and make hubby drool over the snow eating abilities of his pride and joy....