*A LENGTHY TALE*
All you Utahn's know the craziness of yesterday's storm....
Those who are unaware, let me explain by giving you a run-down of my day {I'll try to leave out expletives!}:
3:00 p.m.- I drove down to Kensie's school {with the 2 boys} to pick her up for dance class.
3:30 p.m.- We walked out to the car and it was a sudden blizzard. Our clothes were completely wet from just walking through the parking lot. I called Matt & decided not to go to dance class, and let him know I was on my way home.
3:31 p.m.- I drove a few hundred feet and had to pull over to the side of the road {or what I thought was the side}. It was a complete white-out. I've never experienced this in my whole life living in Utah. The wind was blowing so hard {70 + miles an hour I found out later} that it was completely impossible to see.
3:32 p.m.- I decided {along with many other cars} to stay where I was until there was better visibility.
5:45 p.m.- After 2 hours the kids just could not "hold it" any longer. I was cursing my windshield wipers, which were completely frozen and were doing me no good. I tried to get out once to clean them off, but it was no use. I finally made the decision that if anyone passed me going toward the school I would turn around and follow them. A car came not too long after. I had to roll down my window and drive with my head out the window to see anything at all {which was not much}.
6:00 p.m.- We made it back to the school {thank heaven} where teachers were waiting to comfort my bawling kids and get us situated. There were many children and parents there also. I learned that kids were stuck on buses and were trying to get back to the school {some were stuck on the buses until after 9:00}. I was SO glad that I picked Kensie up & she wasn't stranded somewhere or at the school by herself.
6:15 p.m.- We set up camp with the rest of the first graders in a teacher's room. The faculty came around with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, apples, crackers, and milk. The teachers were GREAT! AMAZING! How can we ever repay them? Kensie was having a blast playing with her friends and Lincoln was following her everywhere. We watched movies, played games, and had lots of treats. I only had one bottle for Jackson and one diaper, which worried me.
8:30 p.m.- After talking to many of the other SunCrest parents I learned that the road up to our house was open {it had been closed since the storm began} and I just knew I had to try and make it home. I bundled up the kids and got them in the car with some help from Brian Smart {fellow BHS alum...yeah, we're tight now. I see him often at the school driving his pliggy van & toting his 7 kids!}. The kids were bawling again & I had them saying prayers to calm us all down & help us get home. The weather was not any better. As I got out on the main road all the cars in front of me were turning around before they got to the intersection that leads up to SunCrest. I almost turned around but decided to keep going.
9:00 p.m.- I made it home. It was a total miracle. I was alternately praying and cursing the entire way. No cars were in front of me so I had no way of knowing if I was going the right way. But I made it. I got a call from one of the SunCrest parents who left when I did & he told me that they closed the road again before he could get there. I barely made it. Students and teachers had to sleep over at the school. Kensie was disappointed this morning to learn that she'd missed out on a fun night, but I was SO GRATEFUL that I wasn't stuck there with the kids. Total Miracle.
I didn't really sleep much...I kept thinking of those poor kids on the buses.
Go Here to see what we missed out on. {watch the video}
Thursday, February 14, 2008
My Winter Woes Continue
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
While the cat's away {or sleeping}....
Some things I've been up to lately while hubby's working overnights-
MAKING THIS,
AND THIS,
AND THIS.
WATCHING THIS,
AND THIS,
AND THIS,
AND THIS.
READING THIS,
AND THIS.
VISITING THIS,
AND THIS.
PLAYING THIS,
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Snow Plows are for Wimps
Sunday, February 3, 2008
There's no business like SNOW business
I feel like I have far too many posts about the snow, but it really is my life lately.....so here come's another. Every day I look out our back windows at the lovely snow drifts that cover our backyard. It really is a beautiful sight. I could stare at them forever, especially in the sunlight. Today we had a{nother} huge storm. Church was cancelled. We got a ton of snow. I'm not kidding. Matt started working overnights tonight {he's in charge of inventory}. I got an email from the bishop tonight telling everyone to make sure that their outside heat vents were cleared of snow so we didn't all die from the toxic fumes that would infiltrate our homes {okay, he didn't quite put it that way, but it freaked me out enough to go check ours}. The kids were all in bed, so I put on my boots {NOT snow boots; no snow pants, either}, got a shovel & headed for the backyard. Of course I couldn't just walk out the back french doors into the yard because there is snow half way up the doors {I kid you not}.
SO, I marched out the front door and around the side of the house. My first step off the porch landed me waist-deep in the snow.
I was NOT smiling {this friend obviously had snow boots & pants}. I soldiered on, feeling like a pioneer, nearly falling in a window well {which wouldn't have really mattered since it was full of snow}. A few times I wondered what would happen if I got stuck. Luckily I didn't {permanently, anyway}. Well, I finally reached the vent & it was indeed covered....which was good because if it hadn't been covered I would have been cursing my paranoia all night while I waited for my hips to thaw out.
SO, I saved our family from imminent danger tonight....but now my beautiful snow drifts are tainted with waist-deep footprints.
BLAST!
Saturday, February 2, 2008
It's Groundhog Day!
Here Ye! Here Ye! Here Ye!
On Gobbler's Knob on this fabolous Groundhog Day, February 2nd, 2008 Punxsutawney Phil, the Seer of Seers, Prognosticator of all Prognosticators, Rose to the call of President Bill Cooper and greeted his handlers, Ben Hughes and John Griffiths.
After casting a weathered eye toward thousands of his faithful followers,Phil consulted with President Cooper and directed him to the appropriate scroll, which proclaimed:
"As I look around me, a bright sky I see, and a shadow beside me. Six more weeks of winter it will be!"
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