It's gonna be a white christmas!

We finally really have snow now, and I cannot begin to tell you how beautiful it is.  There was a couple inches on the ground that had gathered over the last week, but Saturday night a storm rolled in and it’s still going.  By storm, I mean gentle, but persistent falling snow.  We got about a foot throughout the day yesterday, and it’s not letting up today.  The mountains are covered, the evergreens heavy with snow, just like a picture perfect winter wonderland.  I will post pictures when I can.  My internet can’t quite handle that right now.

The resort will be busy this week, and people will be so happy now to have snow to ski and snowboard.  Once the snow rolled it, the change of energy was tangible....people get more friendly and are happy.  It’s great.

I stayed the night at Kaylee’s last night, because I’m going to use her kitchen to do some prep work for Christmas Eve dinner and I knew I wouldn’t be able to drive anywhere in my car today.  I still need to get into town for a couple things, but there is a great free bus system to get me anywhere I need to go, including all the way back to my dorm if need be.  I haven’t ridden it yet, but will today.

One of the things I miss the most now that I’m in the dorms is the lack of a kitchen.  As Christmas drew closer, I missed it more and decided that I needed to cook a dinner, so....several of us single people are going to gather for Christmas Eve dinner (at either Kaylee’s or Daniel’s) before we all head to a crazy busy night of work.  Then we will meet again Christmas day for a small brunch, before another night of work.

I am tackling quite a bit of stuff, but I have all day today, Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning to accomplish it all.  I am planning on making a couple of pies and cream cheese bars for dessert; and for the main entree: pork loin, green bean casserole and mashed potatoes.  I will leave the bread to someone else.  I have never done a pork loin before, so I’m a little nervous about how that will turn out, but the rest should be a breeze.