I haven't updated in forever! I'm not sure why. I've had so many little things I've needed to get done, that when I did anything else I felt so guilty. But I finally managed to send out my Camp DVD's and I finally wrote my resignation letter for work, so they know I'm not coming back in January. (although, I'm still technically employed so I can work there on any of my breaks). I felt like a HUGE weight was lifted when I finished those things. Now I just have the GIANT stack of names and addresses to enter into the datbase for dad. But Tarah is helping me with it, so hopefully it will be done soon.

So, my family Christmas was this weekend. It was nuts trying to get ready for it though. Tarah and I had an epic trip to Kingston where we almost got run over, almost froze to death and almost got arrested at costco. Good times. (note to everyone, you CANNOT go in to costco with your mothers card, even if the picture is 3/4 scratched off and you have a letter of perission with you...A very angry cashierwill spank you with her eyes and look like she might call security, give you a big lecture and make you think you're going to have to put back all of your $200 of groceries piece by piece in shame. Luckily, she eventually let us through...tarah and I almost cried...or peed ourselves...it was scary)

Family Christmas was really fun, we stopped buying everyone a gift a few years ago, and now we do a 'chinese present exachange' also known as 'the present grabbing game' Everyone brings a gift on a theme (this year was 'relaxation'), you draw names and one at a time you take a gift either from the pile, or from someone who has already taken one. I ended up with a super comfy blanket. I also got some very nice things in my stocking and Julie gave me this gorgeous wrap/scarf thing. So yay for presents, and we're having a whole other christmas on actual Christmas! I ate a few two many home made gingerbread cookies (tarah and I are excellent bakers) with buttercream icing though..and My stomach is rather sore.

So my aunt, uncle and two cousins and Julie were going to leave yesterday afternoon. Unfortunately the giant storm (aka the BEAST) had hit us full force, tons of snow and wind that made the house feel like it was going to fall over. But they decided to leave anyway...I have a few pictures that I'll probably post later, but they were TOTALLY stuck in the bat for about half an hour. IT took six people pushing the car out of a giant snowbank, and using boards and stuff but they did finally get out. We called them about 20 minutes later and they were stuck at the gas station (that is about 5 minutes away.) They planned to continue on but Julie decided that there was no way she was getting back inthe car, so we got confirmation that it would be ok for her to make up her exam that she would miss and she would stay another night. Now, to rescue her from the gas station, dad called up a friend who lives along our service road, who has a snowmobile. So julie got rescued by snowmobile. Big adventure. lol.

The storm continued untill midnight or so, we have SO much snow it's unbeleivable. We haven't had this much for a really long time. Mom bought us a snowtubethough...so as soon as we get that filled up, we're going to try it out! yay!