Thanksgiving in Seattle

This year I got to go home for Thanksgiving :) I feel like I had my first real vacation in like 1 1/2 years...well, ok, since I started working at the MTC :) My missionaries are kind of like my children, and so I worry about them if I'm not with them, which makes it really difficult to go away on vacation or anything, because even though I'm not with them, I'm still wondering how they are doing, and it usually drives my family up the wall. But this year, my missionaries left the Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday of the week of Thanksgiving, so I knew that they were in good hands, and I didn't worry about them :) It was awesome to have a vacation, and I was able to come back to school refreshed and ready to get back into studying.

It snowed the day before I got to Seattle, which is awesome - I love snow :) But it's the strangest thing (well, to me anyways) - in Seattle, they don't plow away the snow; not because they don't want to, but because they can't; they do not have the equipment necessary to plow snow in Seattle; apparentely it doesn't snow enough there for them to feel the need to invest in a plow. But the good news is that because the snow was all still there ( it hadn't rained and melted it yet), I got to build my very first snowman!! I know, I'm 24, and I built my first snowman :) My younger sister helped me, and my mom gave us candy to make his face and stuff :) I was so proud :D

So he's got caramel eyes, an M&M mouth, a Tootsie pop pipe, and a Fruit-by-the-Foot scarf/necklace; it was kinda cool - the Fruit-by-the-Foot actually disintegrated into the snow.

Anyways, here's another cool picture from the trip:

My parents had put these pumpkins out on the front porch, and what I think happened was that they got snow on them, the snow started to melt, but left precipitation on them, and then at night they froze, so we got sparkly pumpkins :)

It was a good trip; I'm really thankful that I got to go home for Thanksgiving this year.