OOPS! Its been a few days. Thing have just been busy (but good) lately. That and Josh has found a love for his Blues Clues computer game and seems to monopolize the computer during times when I think to sit down and write.

1. Blessing of service. My cousin Natalie just had her third child 3 weeks ago. We visited her in the hospital- but with Thanksgiving and colds etc I haven't been able to see her since. Thursday I took the boys to her house. I told her I'd be there in the afternoon to take care of her older two kids and make her dinner so she could rest, focus on the baby, and do whatever else she needed to for the afternoon. It worked out great because Josh loves playing with "cousins" and so he loved it, and she had to take baby Nora for a hearing check and so was able to go and come back without hauling the other two around with her. We also had time to chat and hang out some- and heaven knows a little adult conversation during the day is nice for stay at home moms!

2. Christmas music! I've been pulling out CDs and downloading some new tracks into a new '07 Christmas Favs and I just love Christmas music. Josh's favorite is "Jingle Bells" since the lyrics are pretty easy for him to sing along to!

3. Snow- not rain. So the storm that flooded my parents home has reached us and has dumped tons of snow on us! There was mostly rain for one day, and then it turned to snow. My mom has been busy with disaster relief (she's the relief society president of their ward) but once again I'm also grateful they're doing relatively well.

4. "Aunt Trish". My friend Becca watched the boys for us yesterday. We dropped them at her house and then headed up to Brighton to take advantage of all this glorious powder and do some snowboarding! It was such a fun day- and we got cheap lift tickets as part of a fund raiser for the special olympics!

5. Dreams. I think I've mentioned my "dream home" on here in the past. Its funny how things work. Once I let go of the "I have to have it" idea things have begun to turn in our favor. We hit our savings reserve goal, interest rates are dropping below 5.5%, home prices are dropping, and the home has now sat on the market with no offers for several months. Even with prices dropping we probably have enough equity in our current home to make a substantial down payment, and it has a full kitchen in the basement and enough rooms on the upper floor that we can rent it out to a friend to help with the change in mortgage payment for the first while. Oh- and Jake has suddenly decided he really loves it too, and our second business is making great progress. Does this mean we're buying the house for sure? No. But we went and looked at it again Friday, and it sure seems like the stars are aligning! We'll see what happens.