It's Beginning to Look a lot like Christmas!

Taylir has been complaining all month that it isn't looking like Christmas yet with no snow......well, she's finally got her wish this week and it definitely will be a white Christmas. It has been snowing off and on all week and just when we have the driveway and sidewalk all clear, it snows some more. She and I were out all afternoon shoveling the foot of snow that fell today. Tank also loves the snow and absolutely goes nuts when you mention the word. He wants you to shovel the snow and throw it in the air so he can catch it and eat it. There are 2 problems with this, One: He eats so much snow and then has to go out potty a hundred times the rest of the day, and 2: He has to take a doggy pain reliever because his back leg that is held together with rods and pins gets extermely sore after supporting all 95 pounds of him when he jumps up to catch the snow. He's a glutten for punishment and has never learned his lesson .

I'm starting to get a little worried about the storms here and the huge storms in the Northwest. Mark is still in Oregon and we're keeping our fingers crossed that he makes it home tomorrow in time for Christmas. As of today, all flights leaving Portland have been cancelled and over the last few days very few planes have left the ground. Hundreds of travelers have been stranded and 300 spent the night in the airport last night. It's been extremely snowy in Oregon the past week and a half and almost everything is shut down. Church was cancelled yesterday and the schools were closed all of last week. I'm sure the kids loved getting a week's jump on their Christmas break. Saturday evening Mark had to abandon his car a few miles from his brothers house where he is staying and had to walk the rest of the way in white-out conditions. He even had chains on his tires and still couldn't make it home. A very kind man in a truck stopped and drove him the rest of the way home. He said he passed several stranded cars on the side of the road, one being his brothers. This is absolutely crazy weather for Oregon and I guess it hasn't snowed like this in over 40 years Mark was saying. Today Mark's office and all their stores were closed, along with almost everything else. He's been holed up in a hotel room just waiting out the storm. I told him that this reminded me of the movie, "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" and maybe he should rent it tonight and I would do the same. That movie made me laugh, but I'm not laughing right now!