Snowed In?!?

It started out innocently enough with just a couple flakes and I thought, oh how fun- it never snows here! Then I went to piano lessons for an hour and came out to this...


I really got excited then, despite the fact that I HATE driving in the snow (I used to walk up to BYU campus in Provo at night on a snowing-freezing evening rather than drive- it just wasn't worth it to me).

When I got back to my parent's house I dressed Lincoln up and we went outside to enjoy what I thought was going to be a short-lived snow day. I just happened to have my camera that day(never happens) so I snapped a ton of pictures. Here are a few.


a view down the street- Teresa, I thought you could benefit from this one:)


my sister-in-law and her kids building a snowman



my parents front yard- reminds me of Narnia





We were enjoying the snow and as we watched it continuing to come down for hours, I began to think hmmmmm...I'm going to have to drive in that to get home. And then I discovered that one of the two ways to get home had been closed due to the weather and the only other way was slightly more dangerous. I therefore conclude that I'd have to stay the night at my parents. Meanwhile I tell Zach my dilemma and he thinks I'm overexaggerating the whole thing because where he works was only getting a little snow- nothing sticking. He thought that until he had to drive home and had a very close call in T-boning some guy spinning out of control in his truck as he drove at a snails speed on the slick roads close to our home. He ended up parking down the street from our home because we live on a hill and he didn't think he could get the truck up the driveway into our home. He then called to tell me it was probably smart that I wasn't driving home. I was just very grateful that I had a place to stay while stuck out there and that Zach and all of my family were able to be safe, wherever they were.
I should also say that I really enjoyed the snow- it was so beautiful and fun; I don't mean to suggest I didn't. Although, it would have been more fun if Zach could have been with Lincoln and I.
On a funny side note, my dad, a big kid himself, was stuck in Salt Lake because his airline had cancelled all of their flights in and out of Vegas. He was so bummed he kept calling people in my family and telling them how boring it was up there. I know he would have LOVED to have been here to see the snow in person, despite the fact that he was somewhere where there's snow all the time.

Here are more pictures as the night wore on.



going out again with Lincoln and his make-shift snow gear

All told, the news said that our part of town had received about 8-10" of snow. Unbelievable!