Things you might not have known about my mom.

* When she was single and didn't feel like doing her hair before work, she'd put on a wig. And no one would notice.

* She loved watching the rodeo on TV. I remember her telling me to wait until dad went to sleep then I could get up and we'd watch the rodeo on CMT.

* Everytime I went into her room after she had gone to sleep she would jump up and say "WHAT?" and I'd chuckle and say "It's just me, mom."

* (From Holly) When Becky lived in AZ and she came home for a visit, she went into my mom's room to tell her she's back. My mom woke up and groggily pushed her away and then woke up and said "Becky you're home!!" And then started bawling.

*She would cry over everything. One of the ones we would all laugh about was the Folger's commercial where the son who has been away comes home and his mom smells the coffee and comes into the kitchen and says "John, you're home!" We would tell her "Mom, you're crying over a commercial" and she'd laugh and cry.

Copper Harbor Snowmobiling Trip!

Todd and I took a snowmobile trip on Saturday to Copper Harbor. Talk about COLD!!! I think it was 7 without the windchill. It was already planned so I couldn't back out of it because of the weather. We had a room reserved at the Fanny Hoe Motel. I rode on the back of Todd's snowmobile. He wants me to get into snowmobiling so badly. I feel bad for him. Here's the scenario of why snowmobiling is not fun for me:

Clothing: Long johns (top and bottoms), 2 pair of socks, jeans, sweater, mid layer jacket, outer (heavy) jacket, snowpants, boots, gloves, balaclava, helmet. How many pounds is that?

First I drove, that wasn't so bad, except he was getting mad at me because I was going 20 mph, then at one point I thought I was flying and I look down and I'm going 40! So after about 15 minutes I have a line of snowmobiles behind me (not from our group) and my thumb/hand is aching from trying to keep the throttle pressed. I pull over and get on the back while he drives.

So we are FLYING, I saw 60 mph (at one point he said we were going 90!) I'm holding on for dear life and praying out loud thinking "Why is this fun?" My face feels like it's going to freeze off, he tells me I have to "lean" on the corners, but since I have 50lbs of clothes on and my boots are slipping on the running boards so I have no traction or balance, so I can't do a good job of "leaning". Also, in order to lean I have to be able to see the corner up ahead, but his helmet is in my way, so I'm trying to look around him, but my right glasses lens is iced over and my helmet shield is fogging up, so it was a little hard to see anything.

Then I get hit in the head by a Branch with a capital B. He says "you were supposed to duck!" So I have an instant headache/neckache to go along with the coldness and the hanging on for dear life and trying not to worry about more snowmobilers coming at us around the blind corners on a "narrow trail" (there is actually signs that say this, and I don't think anyone pays attention either). We were almost clipped by oncoming twice!!!!

Finally I see a sign that says "Salvation" or "Copper Harbor 5 miles". YES!!! Needless to say for the ride home I called and begged Holly to come and pick me up with my van. What a relief that she said yes.

Amidst all the terror there was a bright spot. Here's the scenario of why I like snowmobiling:

Todd took us "off trail" at one point. So we are cruising along in the powder snow, everything is untouched and beautiful and it feels like we are riding on clouds. Very awesome and undescribable.

It'll probably take me another year to forget the terror and I'll agree to go on another ride with him. Pray for my safe return! Oh, and don't tell anyone where I work.

It's been TOO long!

I've been so lax with blogging lately. :( But I figured it was okay since Josh wasn't blogging either. (don't ask me why) Now that he has posted recently I have no excuse.

Anyway, since my last blog:

December:

11th: My birthday. I usually don't get excited about birthdays, but this year, my sister Amanda went all out and bought me a Nintendo DS Lite. I was shocked! And I love it. My favorites so far are the Personal Cooking, where it has recipes and it tells you how to cook them. I want to try California Rolls and Yakitori.

Other "games" I want to try are the browser, where you can be anywhere that has wireless internet and use it as an internet browser. Also there is "100 classic books" All fit one one little cartridge and you can turn the ds sideways and read it like a book.

24: Jake, Holly, Amanda, Sam came over to spend the night so they wouldn't have to get up and travel on Christmas day. So it was just like old times, we all stayed up LATE trying to wrap all the presents.

25: Christmas with the family. I like having it at our house, so we can kinda "relax". Tessa got a DS lite from us and was so excited. Probably her best present so far. Anna got a kitchen setup. I'm happy to say she loves it and plays with it every day still.

January:
1: Josh, Holly and Kylie came to visit for Susie's wedding.

Holly's bday was on the 19th. Jayda had a party for her.

Tessa's birthday is on Wednesday the 28th. We bought her the guitar hero game and two guitars. Hopefully she'll be happy, since after I ordered them, Todd told me that he asked Tessa a question about GH and she said "I don't really like playing with the guitars, they are too hard." ugh. Now what.

Anway, We took a trip to Copper Harbor on the snowmobiles. It was nice to get a way from everything for a day. I'll post about the trip next.