Catch up

Well, I thought I'd have a lot of time at work last week to finish my tale, was I ever wrong. We cleaned the whole periodicals room. It was awesome! But, judging by the amount of comments I received in the last post (Thanks Ashley), I don't know if I should keep writing about our break. But I will because I secretly like to blog. So, Idaho. We drove up and missed the snow on the way up. It was a nice drive. I like taking road trips with Eli because he's fun to talk to and we just listen to music, or talk, or a read to him when there's daylight. We were lucky enough to catch the song "Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue" by Toby Keith. We love to make fun of that song. We had a good time in Idaho. We got to help clean Grandma's house, go to Lava Hot Springs, which was way nice to be in as it was snowing. It was very picturesque. We had a great Christmas Eve! We went to Aunt Susans for a while, it was fun to see her and all the cousins and aunts. Eli's cousin Mason is really funny. We were all playing sorry, and when he sat down to play, he's about 3 or 4 by the way, he ripped off his shirt and started shoving his feet into his mouth. It was really funny. We love going to Aunt Susan's house. After Aunt Susan's we went to Grandma's house for another Christmas Eve. It was great! Grandma made chilli that was really good and we got to talk to everyone!
Eli and I had a funny sledding experience. There's a really good sledding park right by his mom's house. We went one day. We went down a few times. Someone had built a big ramp of snow that you could jump off of with your sled. I told Eli I didn't want to go down it. When we were done Eli said he was going to take one last go. Here is where our miscommunication comes in. He says he said he was going on the ramp. I never heard him say that. I thought we were just going down the hill, so I jump on the back of the sled. Down we go. As we went down the hill I noticed we were headed right for the ramp. I yelled, "We're going for the ramp!" right as we flew up it. I went straight up in the air and fell straight down on my rump. It hurt so badly! Oh man, that really did hurt. I didn't mess up my tailbone though, luckily.
We had a really nice Christmas morning. It was fun! Everyone, especially Eli's mom, was so generous. We had a nice Christmas breakfast and then we left for Provo. What a scary drive! Through the Malad Pass it was down to one lane that was covered with snow and we had to go about 25 or 30 miles per hour. It was pretty unnerving, but Eli did a great job driving us! We did spin out once, but he kept us from going into the ditch and we just kept on going. Once we got to Tremonton the roads were clear. We beat the other storm coming into Provo that night. We went with Cindy, Kurt, and AJ to dinner at Kristin and Cody's. That was fun! AJ was being so cute and funny. He did this hilarious old man dance that Eli loves. Then we stopped by at his parents house. By the time we left it had snowed and all the roads were icy. Eli asked me to drive because he was sick of driving. Big mistake! I was driving down this hill that has a round-about at the bottom of it. I was going really slow, about 15 mph, and as I was turning to enter the round-about I hit ice, well, really, the whole road was ice, and jumped the median and knocked over a sign. Then, someone came down behind us and hit the ice and hit the back of our car. Luckily, all of this occured at incredibly slow speeds, so no cars or people were injured. It all turned out all right, although I was pretty shaken up. The next day was our Christmas with Eli's dad, so everyone was there, including the Rustin, he's so cute! We also received very nice presents there too! I have to brag that Eli got me a very wonderful gift! He got me an hour long massage! I haven't used it yet, but I'm really excited to! We saw two movies over the break, Yes Man (it was okay, I just hate how they add one or two really gross scenes that have nothing to do with the plot and it ruins the movie) and Bedtime Stories (Really good!). School is started now. I'd better go though, this is long enough. Thanks for bearing with me through this post. I just needed to get it out there!
Love ya!
Cherie