Our New Year

Now that January is here we are back in our work and school schedules. Wouldn't life be nice without work or school....nice but we'd then be idiots and broke. So we continue the battle here in 2008.

Cody and I chose to ring in the new year by going out to dinner with Josh and Mckenna(which was really fun), and a double header of The Settlers of Catan, with my sister, brother-in-law, and brother! Chad won the first game...he hasn't won at this game with us in about 2 years so he was stoked, and Rachelle won the second!!! More importantly we ought not to leave out the fact that Cody lost..twice! This is my favorite part of the game, because he is so cocky and he thinks he is going to win ALL the time. However, I am glad that he has so much confidence.

For New Years resolutions Cody decided that he was no longer eating the following things ever again: 1-Frozen Pizza, 2-Candy Bars, 3-French Fries, 4- Fast Food, 5-Ice Cream. Since he doesn't eat these foods it pretty much means that I don't eat them either! So far he hasn't eaten any of these, and I am positive he will stick with it. He is a very dedicated person when he commits himself to do something. (Cody and I both had given up soda pop and carbonation before we even met, so that didn't even have to be an item on our list). I(Rachelle) decided that my resolution would be to floss my teeth every day. I have always hated flossing, and each time I visit the dentist I get reprimanded for not flossing as much as I should. Last year I had 12 flossing cavaties, 6 were filled, and the other 6 are pending meaning if I keep up my flossing they may not get bad enough to have to fill. So by the time I leave my gums are bleeding, and my entire mouth hurts from the excrutiating pain of having my teech pryed at for an hour. Am I the only person out there that has to take some tylenol after a visit to the dentist(for only a checkup/cleaning)?

This has nothing to do with the new year but the amount of snowfall for the week is really annoying. You know, my grandmother said something pretty profound that I am finding the need to quote all of the sudden. She said, "Satan must be in charge of the weather" I completley agree with this statement! Why else would we have 5 inches of snowfall for everyone to get through their morning commute with???! I had the chance to wreck my car multiple times this morning but managed not to somehow. Now there are probably plenty of you out there that are grateful for the massive amounts of moisture we have received. I am not one of them. One day when my husband graduates from school and has a career we are going to live in a place where no snow falls...Phoenix... or San Diego as a back up plan. But you get the idea somewhere WARM.