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It Plopped.

Yeah, overnight it plopped snow! We didn't have barely any of this the day before!
This morning, no one could get out of our parking lot to school. But thankfully we are all married BYU-Idaho students looking out for one another, and everyone came out of the apartments this morning to help push cars onto the more-so packed road. Later in the day they brought this bulldozer.






I have the 8am class, and Austin goes around 9am. He worked so hard to get me out of here and drop me off to school that I decided to walk home so he could have the car to get between work and school. (Normally I steal the car away to go home and work on my online class then pick him up from work.) Boy was that an adventure... I didn't realize (or think) about how deep the snow was. If I were to guess it snowed a foot and a half. I was literally walking like a cat with tape on the bottom of its paws. Lift a leg up POP, stomp down. Lift the other leg up POP, stomp down. Some places it was up to my knees haha!


In other news, I get to plan a baby shower for one of my best friends!! I made invitations last night :) Glitter glue, fancy scissors, and ribbon make everything awesome.


Austin and I aren't doing anything big for valentine's because school is pretty heavy right now, but I decided to paint my nails for the festivities anyway. I imagine we'll be cooking up an awesome dinner like we always do come the 14th!




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