End of the Quarter and Christmas

Well the end of the quarter has come and gone, and I must say it was a resounding success. And at this point I am quite excited about the upcoming semester where I will be learning how to preform neuropsychological assessments.

After finals ended, I stayed a week in Spokane to work at SPAN and catch up on some tasks I had to neglect because of school and my recent illness. This ended with the office Christmas party at Luigi's, which was hilarious. It's been my experience that most therapists/psychologists are incredibly funny, so having 13 in one room we were quite the loud bunch.

Somehow this week was exhausting, and Friday in my mess of planning for my two week ski/Christmas trip and writing/mailing 23 Christmas Cards; I lost my mind. So when I got up Saturday morning at the crack of dawn to beat the snowstorm I left everything... to include some of the Christmas presents... ugg.

At this point I thought everything was golden. I was going to get to Eagle,ID early in time for the Christmas party that evening. I quickly got through the blowing snow in Colfax and sped through Lewiston; only to be stopped right past Culdesac due to an accident.

Come to find out that the accident had included a couple fatalities and a three hour cleanup. This being a quite sobering thought, I stopped griping about the forgotten Christmas presents and being late to the party. Thanks to a ridiculous detour though on an old logging highway I made it home in time for the Christmas party with Chad. Where it turned out that we were the youngest there, but we got free sushi, so Win! haha

This next week was filled with ridiculous family time, to include my 7 person family and Chad's immediate 5 person family and 30+ extended family that lives in the Boise area. Here is a fun sister photo from our Christmas photo shoot, and a pick of the little Bros.



Addison, Emma, and Myself



Vanson and Lincoln(who is making a face... he is incorrigible but adorable)

Christmas was begun at a splendid 7am! So much more fun to have Christmas with children around. We were planning on going tubing at Bogus Basin, but with 30 mph winds that option got thrown out. We went on a walk instead where we had a snowball fight.



Blame the snowball on the teenager. Nice!

I am now currently up in McCall, ID at the Chad's parents' cabin, and went skiing yesterday. Today it is snowing buckets and another foot is expected tonight! Here is a photo from the back deck of the cabin.



I'll be here till New Years, more updates to follow!