Let it snow. Let it snow. Let it snow.

So, the weather outside has been a little frightful. I don't have a fire, but that would be so delightful. Since I don't have a lot of places to go, let it snow; let it snow; let it snow.

Just kidding (a little bit; I really do love the snow). It's snowing again and it's terribly cold. All this snow is getting a little old. We got stuck twice yesterday on our commute to and from work. How fun!

So, I thought I share a few photos of how the snow at my parents' house has been. These were a few days after Christmas and there's been more snow since then.

My parents live across the street from a small university. There's a big empty lot across the street where the school tore down several houses years ago and has yet to do anything with the land. Well, other than pile snow. The snow piles in that lot are about 15 - 20 feet tall. They've had a front end loader just dumping snow there. Unfortunately, you're going to have to take my word for it; we didn't take any pictures of that.

One of the worst things about the storms lately have been the drifts. The image below is of my dad's 1959 Chevy Suburban. This thing is a very big vehicle. I'm five feet tall (which isn't anything to write home about, but we're going to use me for a scale) and to see anything under the hood, I have to stand on something the size of a five gallon bucket. Can't imagine the size using me? Well take a look at this picture. See that little car in the background (top right)? That's my mom's Honda CRV. It's sitting about 15 - 20 feet behind the suburban. No joke, this thing is enormous. Sadly, you can't see the flames painted on the front end. It rocks!

Have I ever mentioned that I love Jeeps? This one is why. It was my first car. My parents still own it and it's been a life saver the last few weeks for them. It's been the only car that has been able to get out and about after the last few storms have hit.

Mom's Sewing Room

This week, my favorite thing is my mom's sewing room.

My mom has an awesome sewing room. It's a small bedroom (which used to be mine) in their house. It's got plenty of nice light, a walk-in closet, and a small enclosed porch with swing. I thought I'd share a few photos of where my mom works on her projects.


Isn't that a nice Christmas mini quilt she has hanging on her door? It came from one of her recent swaps.

P.S. Sorry about the tiny photos. I have been having issues getting things to load using flickr as the host lately and this is how I figured out how to get around that.

Omaha Holiday Lights Festival

Thanksgiving night we headed to the park downtown to see the lights.

I took a camera class recently at Photographx Unlimited where I learned all sorts of stuff about aperture, shutter speed, ISO, and basically how to control my camera outside of the "green zone" or automatic setting. We took our camera (we have a Canon Rebel XSi, which is a lot of fun to play with) down to the park with a tripod (thanks, dad!) to try to get some fun shots. Here's a few of the photos we left with:










P.S. Sorry for the small images. I've been having issues with linking the photos in my blog to my flickr images lately and this is how I've discovered I can get around that.

Thanksgiving in Omaha

Jason and I headed up to my parents' house for Thanksgiving this year. My mom cooked. She of course had to wear her "cute" new apron.

Fun, isn't it?

She cooked so much food that we were all sleepy afterward.

Even Spencer.

My mom and I even had a Thanksgiving weekend project. When we went to the Des Moines quilt show in October, we saw something like these there. We had to make some of our own. Here's a few photos of our fun project for the weekend.

P.S. Sorry about the small images. I've been having issues with the way I post my images using flickr and this is how I've discovered I can get around it.