Wow where do I begin this past week and a half has been crazy busy. With getting ready for up north, thanksgiving, the flu and my moms surgery my head is still spinning. But I am gradually coming back down to earth hallelujah! We'll start backwards.... My mom went in for surgery yesterday and came out with flying colors! Literally blue, black and purple. She looked pretty beat up but is doing wonderful. A surgery that usually takes ours went very smoothly and she was home in time for lunch. Clint and I really stressed the importance of a priesthood blessing to her before her surgery. She wasn't to sure about it but with a lot of faith and trust she got one! I was so excited! I can't tell you how amazed I am by the power of the priesthood. It gets me every time. Ü We are so grateful for our Father in Heaven to always be blessing us. On thanksgiving we had a great time up north. We cut down our Christmas tree straight from the woods! Which I loved but really had to push out the movie fern gully from my mind. ha ha. I saw snow for the first time!I love love love it! I had to point out to Clint and Lace that the snow flakes really are perfect like on TV! It was an awesome day and I can't wait to go back up and do it again! I wasn't feeling to hot but thought I was just tired from running around and Carson was teething really bad and up most the nights we were there. So I just figured that's all it was. Until I got really ill. It was pretty bad and I was trying to play it off but I just wanted to be home in my bed. So we headed down early. We'll have to have a day trip to make up for lost time. It was in spite of not feeling good a great little get away and I am officially a snow lover!