Blood in the Snow

Saturday (3/8/08) was the biggest snowfall that the Blood's have seen in the Bluegrass since moving here in '03. We had like six whole inches!!!! The town shut down, the churches (except ours) closed on Sunday, and the local grocery store was out of milk (due to the panic over the "blizzard"). Today the sun was shining, the roads were clear, the snow was melting, and all over Kentucky milk will go sour because no one can drink 75 gallons before the expiration date. The kids (and by that I mean me (Blaine)) had a fun time throwing snowballs at Jaimee. Kelsey was a snow princess, I was the snow king, and Cameron was the snow "bad guy." Ellie cried every time she got some snow her, so she didn't last very long. Then we came in and had hot chocolate (made with water not milk because of the stockpiling panic-frenzied doomsdayers)). It was fun.

Goodbye twenties...hello thirties!

Thanks for the tulips Franki--they're my favorite!

So I'm thirty years old today! Last night I was enjoying the last few hours of my twenties, and had a few moments to reflect on the last 10 years of my life. What a decade its been! When I turned 20 I was in Jeruasalem doing a sememster of study abroad and I just thought of everything that's happended since then...here is a list of the "highlights" of my 20's! (Feel free to skip past this if it totally is boring. I'm doing this for my own posterity I suppose!)

• Backpacked through Europe for a month
• Wrote my sweetheart Blaine on his mission, he got home, we had a really special second first kiss the night after he got home which lead to...
• Being engaged and married in the temple to the greatest husband ever (this was HUGE!)
• Receiving my bachelor's degree in Ultrasound (after working 60 hour weeks at the hospital AND being 8 months pregnant!)
• Had a beautiful baby boy--Cameron!
• Worked full time as an ultrasound tech plus being on-call all hours of the night (how did I do that???)
• Moved to Kentucky--started law school life!
• Bought our first house
  
• Had a beautiful baby girl--Kelsey!
• Served in the Young Women, as Relief Society Pres, for almost 3 years, Stake Primary Pres.
• Survived three years of law school--ok Blaine did most of the work but I'd like to think it was a team effort!
  
• Had another beautiful baby girl--Ellie
• Started the real world of jobs, family, loans, bills etc....

I was just overwhelmed with thinking of all that has happened and all I've learned since that 20th birthday. I realize that I could have never have done any of the above without my wonderful husband, parents, and all the dear friends and family we have, and most of all from all the blessings that we have received from our kind an loving Heavenly Father. It's all worked out somehow even when it often seemed like we wouldn't make it. We've been so happy and blessed. Just think of all the great things that are going to happen in my thirties!!

Just one picture....

This is my attempt to get just one cute picture of the kids when they were all playing on and in the car. As you can see--it didn't go to well but some of the pictures are really funny! I gave up a long time ago trying to get all three kids to smile for a picture, but I sometimes still try! Oh well-some of the best pictures are just the funny ones that show how it really is around here--crazy!