So many things to write about....

So it's been a few days since my last post. A lot has happened since then so here's a synopsis of recent adventures in my life:

Thanksgiving was spent with the fam. It was a good time.... I especially enjoyed getting to see my little three and a half month old niece, Abigail.

I also had numerous photo shoots with numerous family members. I attempted to have a designated photo shoot day and time; however, it didn't really work out that way. Next year I'm going to be more assertive. Yeah,.... next year..... sure....

On the drive home from Texas we hit a "winter squall" in New Mexico. If you don't know what that is.... it's basically a blizzard but shorter in duration and usually in a very small area.... like Highway 64..... like two-way road... undivided highway. We seriously thought we were going to die. We were forced to drive 20 mph and at times could barely see the car directly in front of us. We had to concentrate together to see the road. Numerous cars were in ditches and the jeep in front of us even did a 180 into the oncoming traffic lane. Luckily there was not any traffic at that particular moment. There was also a moment when there was a large SUV in the ditch on our side of the road. It was obvious he had skidded over from the oncoming traffic lane... and it was obvious that it had happened probably within minutes if not seconds of us driving through his skid marks. We were really glad when we made it through that little storm.....

However, we later hit horrible traffic on I-25 in Colorado Springs. If you heard on the news that it was a parking lot.... they weren't exaggerating. We spent over an hour just trying to make it through a PORTION of Colorado Springs before we decided to get off and wind up some back roads. We figured that 30 mph on snowpacked roads was better than the 5mph and stopping/waiting that we were doing on I-25. Overall, the trip took us 13.5 hours (normally it's 9 hours).

Monday morning I hit the ground running with an outdoor photo shoot in the snow.

Monday night I tried to download all my Thanksgiving Holiday pictures of my family members only to find that my memory card had spontaneously been corrupted and no images could be found on the card. Before having a heart attack, I installed a data recovery program and after several attempts, was able to rescue the images. Phew!

Tuesday I met with a genetic counselor and am in the process of getting tested for the Breast Cancer Gene which runs in my family. If I'm positive, it means my chances of developing breast cancer in my life is between 50-85%. Hmm.... I'm hoping it will be negative. I'll have another post about that whole visit tomorrow!

And today I was summoned for jury duty! Yah! Seriously..... I think it might be fun. It's in January and hey.... my business is always slow during that time so what else am I going to do?! Look out criminals! I'm coming for you!