Lingering lunch

I got a text from my friend Stephanie that she missed me even though I saw her on Friday :) It is nice to be missed and have friends want to see you!  We decided to go to lunch.  We invited Laura too.  We have a lot of fun together!  We ate at Qdoba and then went to Starbucks.  I got hot cocoa. We were out for about four hours.  It is so nice to chat and laugh together. 

I saw this post on Facebook yesterday.  It is proof that Murphy’s law definitely rears it’s ugly head for military spouses.  So much snow this month while Joe has been gone. 

I took Haylee to the rink this morning at 6. Then dropped her at school around 7:40.  This was the sunrise on my way home.  The beautiful snow covered prarie. 

We saw a B-52 taking off.  Amazing. 

Picked Haylee up at 5:30 - it was snowing like crazy I love that she was catching snowflakes on her tongue. 

Snowing to beat the band! 

I gave her, her Valentine’s gifts from dad. 

He called me two weeks ago and asked me to order her flowers from the florist on base. He was having a hard time getting ahold of anyone.  

He told me what to spend and sent a picture of what he had in mind.  ❤️ In the end the florist on base wasn’t helpful so I went to Walmart and got these beauties tonight.  She loved them!!! 


Double the flowers we would have got for that price at the florist.  :) 

Duct tape explanation

Proof it’s the end of the day, I didn’t even blog about the duct tape title!  Lol.  

Last week Keva and I headed to the temple. The weather in Minot was horrible, tons of blowing snow, bad roads - Keva and I decided we would see how the weather was south of Minot and if it didn’t clear up we would just say forget it. We said a prayer we would be safe and the roads cleared up like we had hoped.  We chatted and laughed and had some great spiritual discussions on the way to Bismarck.  As we were getting of the high way in Bismarck just a few miles from the temple, we hit ice going into the turn and slid into a truck waiting at the light.  Good news we were all ok -us and the truck driver, and the sherif was really nice. The car was banged up but driveable.

The headlight on the drivers side was hanging by a cord so we decided to go to target and get some duct tape.  While at target we put together a sunshine care package for Keva’s oldest daughter Katie who is in her first year of college.  When we came out of target Keva asked me to look up  TJMaxx and get directions. As she was taping the headlight a lady came out and asked if she wanted help. Keva’s reply? “No thanks, I’m just duct taping my life back together.” She and the lady both cracked up. It was at that moment I realized the check engine light was on so I decided to climb out and make sure the car wasn’t leaking any fluids. So here is Keva almost sitting in the snow in a dress no less and I say “hey the check engine light is on” before I can finish she says something like  “yeah, no kidding”  We cracked up again.  If ya don’t laugh you will cry right? We had fun shopping and went to lunch and laughed some more before heading home.  

This pic was last week too.  Our microwave broke. We only bought it seven months ago!  So lame.  I still wasn’t cleared to carry heavy stuff (I had loaded the old microwave to the car to take back earlier that day but Haylee would NOT let me help her with this) 

It wasn’t super heavy just awkward. As she rounds this corner and has to lay on the car she says at this moment “I hate gravity!”  Lol.  She is a good kid and funny to boot!  She and I will survive when Joe is gone.  Girl power!!! 

  

A duct tape kind of week

I’ll probably try to be concise here and maybe make bullet points instead of typing out all the things. I need blog more often. 

The weather is crazy. We got 11 inches of snow last weekend, four more a couple of days later and 5 more yesterday.  It’s too cold to melt at all of course so our snow in the backyard is about 2.5 feet deep.  On the patio it’s more like 4 feet just because of how it drifts there. 

These two pictures are after the 11inch storm. 

We call this area The Huhmann Peaks ❤️

It is seriously cold.  

After a quad ward activity at the stake center. This snow pile was almost as tall as Haylee. 

Lots of snow at the big blue house. 

Friday night Russ, Lisa and I went to see The Upside. It was really good!! 

Joe’s pictures from his Hoover Dam tour.  

I miss his face! 

Saturday night was a Maintenance Goup Spouses dinner for spouses of leadership. It was so fun!  

We went to visit a friends puppies.  Tried to talk Joe into letting us get this little sweetie but for 1500.00 he was not super on board.  To be fair he absolutely does not want a dog. 

She was a snuggly sweetie!! 

Hard to tell in the photo but this is a sun dog. You can see the rainbows on either side of the sun. Except there is no rain.  It is the light reflecting off of ice crystals in the sky.  Haylee and I call them snowbows.

Me after my doc appt Monday.  I am healed!  Yahoo! 

It was snow globe snowing. 

Haylee at her private ice skating lesson as she prepares for competition. 

After the additional five inches. 

See that green box back there? That’s one of those electrical boxes.  Almost buried. 

Did I mention it’s cold?  Lol!