[Lindsey]

I can't believe Christmas is only a few weeks away!! So much for our big old family Christmas we were trying to host. Everyone has backed out, the last ones being my brother today. My grandma told me last week that she will just come out if my brother is there with the girls. She'd come watch them open presents, and then go back home. Without the kids, there is no point in coming. So I guess there will just be Scott and I, my parents, and his parents. His parents are coming just in time to eat Christmas dinner and stay overnight. I think my parents will come on Christmas eve. I am pretty disappointed because we told everyone last Christmas that we'd love to have them over this year and everyone agreed, but at the last minute they all made other plans. We have a 14 lb turkey in the freezer (from my mom, for Christmas), and a 10-14 lb ham ordered through Scott's work. I guess we'll just go buy a smaller turkey, let my mom have hers back for when they have company, and just keep the ham frozen for another time. Oh well, what can you do?

Yesterday I had quite a morning. I dropped Scott off, drove to my parking lot, and walked to the traffic lights. I got there too late and had to press the button for a cross walk. Finally the lights changed, just as someone else had come up behind me. I started walking across the street without seeing who it was. I was almost halfway across when all of a sudden there were lights and squealing tires!! I jumped out of the way and a car stopped maybe a foot from my legs. They were left turning and didn't even slow down to see if there were pedestrians crossing with the walk light!!! The person behind me yelled in fright... and it was my boss! He said he was just looking at the ground and all of a sudden there was a car right there. It took about an hour for my limbs to stop feeling like rubber! Thank goodness it wasn't icy and the car was able to stop! It was going really fast!

Other than all that, I've been keeping busy with our new dogs. I'll update the other thread about them though!