I'm Thankful for....Electricity

So we have had our first big snow storm in the valley for the year. I normally love the first snow of the season and want to go out and play in it. But this year I didn't have anyone to play with, plus this wonderful snow storm knocked out my power for SIX hours. I was pretty lucky in the fact that it was almost time for bed anyways so I just went to bed after awhile. The power didn't come back on until 4:30am. Then I got the pleasure of waking up to a FOOT of snow outside. I don't have church until 1:00pm so I didn't have to worry about too much of that. I'm so not ready for this much snow, I don't mind some snow, but this was down right crazy.

I'm Thankful For...

Family!!!! I love my family, I talk to some of my friends and they hardly ever talk to there parents or mention their family. I talk to my mom and dad like four times a week I would guess. It is hard with a family so spread out like mine is, but knowing I have several people that love me no matter what helps...a lot. I'm not going to pretend that I have the perfect family, because lets be honest, do any of us have a perfect family? No. But I do have parents that are amazing examples to me, and brothers and sisters that care about me and want to see me succeed in my life. I'm really lucky that I have a sister that only lives 45 minutes away, sometimes when I'm home sick I spend the weekend at her house. Most of the time we don't do anything grand or exciting, it is just nice to be around family every now and then. I wish it wasn't so expensive to fly, because then I would go home more than once a year, but I will have to take what I can get. I love my family.