I love the Internet!

So yesterday I accidentally spilled bright green melted candle wax on our beige carpet. Oops. I let it harden and this morning I tried to picked it off each individual strand of carpet- not fun. Not easy. Not working. Then I remembered this awesome thing called "google" which was so adorably referred to as "gobblety-goop" by a really funny elderly lady I was visiting once. Anyway, I simply typed in "how to get candle wax out of carpet" and instantly I had all the information I needed! Who knew that all you need is an iron on the lowest setting and a brown paper bag? You put the bag on the carpet and place the warm iron on top. It melts the wax and the paper absorbs it! Voila! I had so much fun ironing my carpet, I almost spilled more wax on purpose. Just kidding.

What!? Snow in College Station?

Apparently it hasn't snowed like this in twenty years. The people here are going crazy! Some of them have never seen snow before. It feels like home to me!
The weirdest thing is that yesterday it was so hot I had the AC on! Crazy!


This is my favorite little guy having a blast discovering snow. He is our neighbor's 15 month old son.

Backpacking, Coyotes, and King of the Mountain

We decided to do something completely un-traditional and fun for Thanksgiving this year. We went backpacking!
There's funny thing about Texas. One has to go a loooooooooong way to find anything that even remotely resembles a mountain. We drove for 4 1/2 hours to a place called Enchanted Rock State Park. Basically there's a bunch of rocks that glow in the dark and make your wishes come true.
Ha ha. Just kidding. I think it's a site of an ancient volcano or something. There are about five "peaks" of smooth rock among very nice desertous terrain. (cactus and dirt and stuff)
There's a pretty cool thing about these "peaks": when you get to the top, you get the same feeling after at least five hours of hiking in the Rockies- you are the KING OF THE MOUNTAIN! You are the highest thing for miles around and you have basically conquered the world. And the best part is that it only takes about 10 minutes (max) to get to the top! All the glory for a fraction of the work! Wow! Now that's pretty awesome.
Another neat thing about the desertous terrain is the coyotes. We were awakened several times both nights there by the yipping, yapping, barking, and howling of several coyotes. There must have been a bunch of them because it was loud- they were having a pretty wild coyote party!
One last amazing part of backpacking is: the stars at night are BIG and bright deep in the heart of Texas! We climbed to the highest peak after dark and looked at the stars. Wow. It was by far the biggest sky blasting the brightest stars I have ever seen. Seriously, everyone needs a chance to experience that.