Mad World

It has been a wee bit crazy here in Logan Utah—probably just Utah in general. The weather here is slightly far fetched, and that’s coming from a girl from Alberta. No the wind isn’t blowing me over, however the ice may just take me down without it! It has been freezing here ever since we got back from Christmas break. It can’t make up its mind. One day it decides to be spring, then suddenly 5 million pounds of fog linger in and you’re suddenly in a dead zone, then bang- it’s a freaking blizzard and there is a TON of snow on the ground! I mean lots and lots of snow.  

            It does keep life a little bit entertaining, you just never know what to expect when you wake up in the morning. For example, I woke up super duper early to go to a 7am test. I went with my good friend Courtney (She’s nice and drives me to school)(I live 2 blocks away from my classroom…shh) ANYWAYS, turns out it’s a winter wonderland out there and we are one of the first to venture on to campus. First we have to walk across the road- to get onto the road we have to hop over a large mound of snow about to our hips. Then we skid across the slushy road hoping that cars see us as they speed off to work, we have to quickly leap over the other mountain of packed snow that awaits us on the other side- this pile is a little bit more tricky, however we make it. We are laughing at this point and Courtney is yelling into the cold air how she would like summer to come. No one yells back because they are still on in bed. We are getting really close to the doors now; we feel we have made it. Failed, Court squeals and I turn around just in time to see her skid around and find her balance before falling on her butt on the cold pavement. I laugh at her because the sidewalks aren’t even icy… I slip, barely catching myself. We then just decided to skate to the door. Snow up to our knees and laughing we went in to take the test. And we did AMAZING!!  (we’ll pretend)

Just to bounce back a week from today, because I want to.

To make the best of this weather Ken and I went up to Beaver Mountain to go boarding on Martin Luther King Day (a nice little holiday here). I wore about a bajillion layers and was ready to freeze my brains out. BUT! It was surprisingly SOO much warmer up there. The sun was shining and I could actually see a big, blue sky (something I go without seeing much of the winter). It ended up being a lot of fun. It was the first time going with ken, he is better then me, no surprise there. It was nice to just be in the fresh air and out of the smoggy little valley I call home. Good story eh? It was worth the extra paragraph for sure.

I do love Logan though, I’m sure I’d like it more in the summer. Just turns out I only live here in the depressing months! Yay me.

Here are some pictorials:

BRIGHT sun. In love.

Bella may have seasonal depression and likes to do this. 

She makes up for it when she does this!

The mother sent me my FAVORITE Lemon Loaf!! love, love 

The new usual, in the MIDDLE OF THE DAY!

This handsome guy had a birthday! 

With all the goods.

And that's it folks!!

Christmas Holidays!

I’m back!! Christmas break came and went and suddenly my head is back in the books. Rather then dwell on that after my first week back, I’d rather look back on my break and fill everyone in on my exciting life…. Ha

            SO!! It basically started on December 16- my birthday!! It starts there for that reason only and it was a great birthday spent in Salt Lake with Ken’s parents and Grandparents! I turned 21 woohoo.

Ken and my parents surprised me and shipped me home to Canada early on December 17. By shipped I mean flew. I left the Salt Lake City Airport at 830am and was in cold Calgary by 230! There my family eagerly awaited my arrival and we went home to lovely Raymond! Oh how I love Alberta…and miss it. Ken is amazing and loves me and stayed behind and worked for a few extra days. He too flew to Calgary and my Mom and I went to fetch him when he arrived. He didn’t have quite the luxury of getting dropped off at the airport in SLC by a loving spouse however. Rather, he had to trudge through snow at 4 something in the morning to catch a shuttle on campus that would take him there. (He walked in the middle of the road with his luggage cause that was where the light was…poor man). He arrived though and I took him home to show him how the Sherwood’s/Heggie’s spend their Christmas!

            The charm of that idea lasted a few days, and ended abruptly.  It was the night of my friend’s “get together”. I had left Ken at home and was over at my friend’s house when I shortly realized that I felt like I was going to die. My parents had been sick recently so I assured myself I was thinking about that too hard and faking it. I pushed that reasoning aside shortly after however. I ended up calling my dad to come pick me up and home I went.  When I got home I was informed that Ken had also been feeling sick and I found him sitting in our bedroom concentrating intensely on magnets. When I say he did that for hours, I mean he did that for HOURS!! 3 seconds after getting home I was puking my brains out. When I was back in one piece I walked into the living room where Brittney was, she too mentioned she was feeling a little light headed. 3 seconds later she was throwing up. And that’s when the glory of it all began. To spare details, Ken and I were up ALL night.  The next day we took medication and maybe were awake a total of 3 hours. Brady also got it that morning. So within 24 hours Me, Ken, Brittney and Brady all got sick. It was lovely!

            We did slowly recover, and minus that experience I really did love being home! We spent a lot of time together as a family. We completed a mystery puzzle… of which we never solved…went skating on my cousin’s homemade ice rink, we went tubing behind quads on Corner Lake, we went snowshoeing in freezing waterton, went to a hockey game (with friends), played A LOT OF GAMES (Ken loved every second of it) and just hung out around the house. AND I GOT TO HOLD HAZEL A LOT!!! How much better can it really get?!

            I love them all and can’t wait till I have all my legal married shin digs complete so I can go back to Alberta and visit them whenever the goodness I want! It will be fantastic.