alot of Christmas fun

Last week was full of Christmas like fun. On Thursday Steve and I got our Christmas tree and had alot of fun decorating it. We didn't buy enough garland for the tree so it looks realy silly, but we are keeping it on there because it adds sparkle. We actually didn't think we were going to have a Christmas tree this year because we were having a hard time finding the time to go cut one down and we didn't feel like spending a bunch of money on a fake one. We were actually going to get a bunch of antlers that Stephen and I have found in the mountains and tie them together to look like an antler Christmas tree, ( I think that's a cool idea, Steve came up with it ) but then we found out that my sister in law's parents went and cut down a Christmas tree for us! My sister inlaw Cami had asked her parents to get one for us, because she knew we didn't have one.

On Friday we went to Stephen's work Christmas party. The party was kind of fun, but near the end of it everyone decided to play Guitar hero and that didn't sound fun to Stephen and I so that's when we decided to leave the party and go home.

On Saturday we went to the Holt family Christmas party. At the party there was a dinner and then everyone opened white elephant gifts. We had alot of fun at that party. The white elephant gifts that Steve and I got are a box of Cordial cherries milk chocolate's, a box of little candy canes, a little nativity scene, and a small stuffed Santa. I hung the candy canes on the Christmas tree today.

Flink family Christmas party

Last saturday, Steve and I finally went to the Flink family Christmas party. I am realy happy that we went because I think it has been four years ( or something like that ) since I have been to it and its the first time Stephen has gone to it. We talked to people, children sat on Santa's knee, and we ate yummy food. My absolute favorite food there was some peanut butter bars Jana and Aaron brought, those are the most amazing peanut butter bars I have ever had! Ha ha Steve ate alot of them!

Steve and I talked to grandpa alot, which is realy great because we hardly ever get to see him and we were both realy looking forward to seeing him again. I have never talked to grandpa that much ever, and it made me realy happy to be able too. He told us this story about how he got pneumonia when he was seventeen years old. He recieved a blessing and got better and says he hasn't been sick since then. I was shocked to hear that he hasn't been sick since then, Thats amazing!

Air swimming

Stinker always flexes his feet like this when he is enjoying being scratched or petted, but when his legs ar hanging in the air like this it looks like he is swimming. It is just so funny and cute! He was actually uncomfortable with the way Steve was holding him and moved himself into this strange position.

Thanksgiving fun

Thanksgiving day was a realy fun day. There was delicious food, but best of all lots of laughs! Angie, Melissa, Nicole, and I took lots of fun and random pictures and made some realy funny video's! It all made us laugh so hard! I loved being able to spend time and have so much fun with Melissa and Nicole, because I don't get to as much as I would like too; they are such awsome neices ( and of course I loved hanging out with Angie too )! Brian was even in one of the video's, it was awsome. After all that, it was pretty late ( around 10:00 pm ) and Brian decided that he was going to go to Wal mart for the Thanksgiving sale. Steve and I decided to go with him because we wanted to spend time with him. We left around 10:00 at night because we thought the sale started at 12:00 in the morning, but it turned out that it actually started at 5:00 in the morning! So we just stayed at Wal mart waiting for the sale to start. Later Angie and Chris showed up and waited with us. Wow I got tired being awake so long! Steve, Brian, and I were at Wal mart from about 10:00 at night to about 7:00 in the morning! It was crazy in Wal mart ; It was so busy that I had a lady ramming my heals with her cart! Everything has been so fun, I have realy enjoyed spending so much time with loved ones!

Here is the link to a video of Medeor's. The one at the very first looks kind of like the one Steve saw.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSVJEdZ1Jkc

The meteor!

Stephen saw a realy cool thing recently, it happend on the 5th of this month ( last wednesday). We were at Steve's parents house and we heard Jeff and Cami's (thats my brother inlaw and his wife ) dog Annie barking outside. It was about 11:20 pm so Steve decided to go outside and see what Annie was barking at and tell her to stop. He looked in the direction of Annie's kennel to see what was going on , and heard deer running up the hill in the backyard so he knew that's what was upsetting Annie. As Steve was looking in that same direction he saw a flash of light shoot down from the sky at about an 80 degree angle. It started out white and then turned green, and just as it disapeared behind the hill in Steve's parents backyard, the sky lit up from the flash from when it hit ( kind of like when a camera flash goes off, but huge ). It was a Meteor, and It hit extremely close, It hit right in the very very nearby mountains! We wanted to go look for it but never got a chance. We think the odds of finding it are pretty low anyway, since its hard to tell exactly where it hit, and it may have not left a big mark where it landed. We will probably still go look for it , but don't realy count on finding it. Steve's dad has found a meteor though; he found it in a church parking lot! He had it looked at and tested and sure enough it is definetely a meteor. I think he found it quite a long time ago, I am not sure how long ago it was. Steve and I were noticing lots of meteor's flying through the sky that same night ( last wednesday) Steve saw that one fall, so it must have been an active night for meteor's!

Bugling elk and getting stranded on the mountain

The rut is going on right now ( mating season for the elk ), so late last friday night Steve and I decided too go listen too them bugle. Steve brought his elk bugle call ( you blow into it and it makes the sound of an elk bugling ) so that we could call in the elk close too us. we sat down on a log and started bugling. There were so many elk ; we couldn't see them because it was so dark but we could hear so much bugling, it was awsome, it is realy one of the most awsome things I have ever experianced. We were able too get the elk pretty close too us too, there were a few that came within about 20 feet of us! The elk bugling is such an amazing pretty sound , its so unique and wonderful. We even had an elk bark at us, it was weird! Oh and we heard elk fighting too ; we could hear their horns clacking together, it was totally cool!

After a while Steve and I decided too drive too another spot too bugle, so we got in the truck and started driving. As we were driving our head lights were getting dimmer and dimmer untill they went out, and so did the battery. Steve and I hopped out of the truck and started walking up the dirt road hoping too get a signal too Steve's phone so that we could call someone too come help us out. As we were walking up the road we saw a truck coming toward us and we were realy hoping that they would stop and jump our car so that we could at least have enough battery power to drive us too somewhere that we could make a call. Sure enough they stopped and asked us if we needed any help and we told them about our truck. They jumped our truck and it gave us some more power, so we started driving again, hoping that the lights would stay bright and the battery wouldn't go out again, but sure enough the lights started too dim and the battery went out and we still wern't in an area that we could make a call. We were parked on the side of the dirt road and popped the hood to let people that drove by ( we were kind of worried that nobody would drive by because it was in the extremely early hours of the morning so there wern't that many people driving on the mountain) that we needed help. Not too long after we popped the hood some hunters came driving down the road in they're truck. They stopped and asked us what was wrong ; Steve told them about what happened and one of them offered too make a call for us when they got too where they could get signal. We gave them the information too make the call for us and then they started driving away. Steve and I just had too wait now, so we sat in the truck and ate some Licorice and then tried too get some sleep. It was pretty hard too fall asleep because we were pretty uncomfortable, but I did fall too sleep for a while, and Steve did too, but he got alot less sleep than me. Around 8:00 in the morning Steve and I woke up too the sound of a vehicle driving up the road , and we were so happy because it was Steve's dad and brother. They loaded our truck onto a big trailer so they could tow it home. Jeff ( my brother in law ) looked at the truck too see what had gone wrong, and he told us that our alternator stopped working. So Steve and I got into they're car and we got a ride home.
Even though we had all that car trouble it was totally worth it because the elk bugling experiance was wonderful!