ode to the provo house

well we had a white christmas, a white new year and now we're having a rediculously white january 9th. we woke up to about 5 inches of new snow this morning, tons still coming down, and a whole lotta red necks trying to pull a mazda out of the ditch accross the street. jason and i ate out cereal and watched the whole thing. it was like dinner and a show, except it was breakfast. we figured they couldn't be too red neck because red necks would have gotten that car out way faster.
the provo house is sold! i have very mixed emotions about that. i'm happy that my parents will no longer have to worry about "the money pit". (i can't even remember how many times they've been jilted by renters). mom and i won't have to spend half our summers renovating the bathroom or kitchen. but there are so many good memories in this house. in fact, so that mom and dad know how much we have all loved this house, it would be awesome if those of you who have lived in it could post some memories, that would be so fun! i'll name a few.
jessica and i used to sit on the front porch while we wrote in our diaries and ate mint cookies and cream ice cream. geoffrey was usually running durring this time and you could hear him coming from about a block away doing his final kick because he was breathing so loud.
one night geof. brought home fish food ben and jerrys ice cream and he and jess and i sat in the middle of the living room floor with a candle and geof. told us stories of what a not nice girlfriend cassie was.
this is one of my all time favorites and then i'll stop but i'll post more memories later. i worked for convergys our first few months down here and hated every second of it. i called in sick to work about every other day. geof., being the nose to the grindstone type that he is, thought i was pathetic. well one such day when i had called in sick, i was still in bed when geof. came home. he was supposed to be going up to salt lake for training with a new job. the only key we had was still in the house instead of on the fence where we hid it so he had to get in through a window. i got out of bed and hid in the closet in jess and my room as he checked the windows in his room. then he came to the window of our room that was right by the closet. luckily the blinds were closed so i quickly abandoned the closet and slipped under our bunk beds with the dust bunnies and had to do some amazing body contortioning to fit under there with our storage bins. geof. managed to get in our window and didn't even know i was there. i knew he had to leave soon so i just layed low, literaly. he turned on tim mcgraw, ate something, sang along very loudly to "cowboy in me" i think it was, grabbed some stuff out of his room and finally left. i stayed under the bed for a good 5 minutes after he left for fear of him coming back. i was in quite a bit of pain when i finally was able to stand up again but geof. never even knew i was there, til about 3 weeks later when my aunt, thinking it was hilarious, squeeled on me and i had to tell him the look on his face was priceless!
good times. best time of my life maybe. that was for you jess. k. get on here and blog some stories!
ellynn