Snow comes and go.

We have had a oddity of a winter. I haven't seen anything like it in the 11 winters that I have lived in Utah. Sometimes it has been a slow go for the snow to come but nothing like this. December we didn't have nearly enough as we usually get and January has been keeping the same trend.
This trend isn't exciting when you depend on the snow for income. After many years of living in Utah, I have finally learned that the snow provides for my family. Not just for my drinking water but paychecks!

We have had some small storms but nothing big. This weekend are suppose to get a doozy of a storm. Mike is giddy as a school boy for all the new snow. With this trend with the snow coming now. We will probably have snow into the summer.

Cold Weather

Despite that this week had fabulous weather. The cold is coming and I'm of course not a fan or excited about it. Last weekend we had the first "official" snow. Jersey and Phoenix were so excited. I heard "Once there was a snowman" like 50 times an hour -seriously- they kept talking about when "We go to Snowbird we are going to make snow angels."

Jersey was thrilled to wear her long sleeves again. Phoenix was excited to wear his snow boots. They also enjoyed that the hot cocoa maker was up and running, to warm us up. Jersey kept saying "mom you love the snow, Right?" They talked about skiing. I tried really hard to stay positive so they wouldn't be sad, like I was. It was even cold enough that Mike let us turn on the heat. The house one morning was.......

Luckily this week was in the 70's and not to bad.

Good-bye warmer days, until next year.

Bring on the snow

WOW it's Febuary already! It's crazy how things just go by. Yesterday was one of the biggest snow storms that has passed through here in awhile. We had Stake Conference and we made the choice to go, while driving there it was completly white on the roads. We saw a semi-truck jacked knife on the road. Before we left for church Mike shovelled 3 feet of snow off of our driveway. The snow was coming down and the wind was howeling. After we got out of church we thought it would be fun to take the kids on a drive through the snow. So we went into a field and got stuck. The snow was so deep we weren't going anywhere even with 4 wheel drive. Mike walked home to our house and got some help. While the kids and I were waiting in the car a neighbor saw that were stuck so they tried to help but nothing was really working. The car was sitting on a bunch of snow. Mike came back with help and the neighbor began digging us out. Finally after an hour we were able to get out of the area.

When we got home we were planning as a family to shovel off our driveway but another neighbor had used his snow blower to clear it off. I did clear off the stairs.

Jersey and I took the time to play in the snow. Mike made sledding hill in the front yard. IF you can believe it I haven't ever been sledding. It was quite the experience. I realized that I'm a little to heavy for that kind of fun. It's for little children only.

Oh and yes it's Febuary and I still have my Christmas lights and because I'm so lazy they are still plugged in. They are red so we can say they are for Febuary right?

Snow Haters nightmare!

For a few weeks at the beginning of November. Everyone in UT, was beginning to wonder if winter was ever going to come. People said that it was because of Global Warming we hadn't seen snow. The Weater people would predict crazy blizzard storms that were to come and leave us in a mess. Well those storms never panned out. They would fizzle out and we would end up with rain. Now, I was totally excited. Finally after all these years I was going to have an AZ Christmas in UT. NO SNOW. Well those hopes and dreams were shattered last week when a storm finally came and put some inches down. Then the second storm came on Saturday morning. I was still not going to believe that is was going to be a bad storm. Until I couldn't leave my house on Saturday one because my tires on my car were balding and it wasn't going to be good on the snow. Second because the driveway was covered in at least 5" of snow. They kids and Mike of course were truly excited as for me, not so much. Granted I do think snow is nessary for this area because we are always in draught condition but does really have to snow at my house and lock me in all day?

When Mike came home that night he was a dutiful husband and shoveled the walk and driveway. Of course because the kids were in the house all day they wanted to go out and "help dad" Phoenix didn't last to long but Jersey did a good job shovelling.

So the next storm is to hit tonight. I hope I don't die driving on the roads tonight. I did get new tires so that I can get around now. There is no excuse to lock myself in the house all winter long. No matter how long I will live here in UT the snow when it comes will never get old nor how I will hate it.