Snow

We don't know what came over us this December, but we took 3 trips to the snow this month.  And each time I scratched my head to question what we were thinking?!?

The first trip we went to Sheldon's cousins wedding (John and Simone)  we were so happy for them we didn't even contemplate making reservation to go back in August when things were still Sunny and bright in Idaho.  We had to fly to Salt Lake City and drive to Rexburg due to the time of the sealing.  As we arrived in Salt Lake City late Friday night we decided to take advantage of the dry conditions (snow all around us, but not snowing or raining at that moment).  We drove to Pocotello and stayed the night.  As we got up in the morning to drive to Rexburg we thought we must have woken earlier than the sun.  We got going, but it seemed that the sun never came up.  As you can see it was a gray day. Something I don't remember experiencing.  Sheldon and I concurred we were not sad that we lived in sunny Las Vegas and we were glad that there were those who could live in this gloomy weather.

Luckily it wasn't as gloomy as it looks.  Sheldon saw snow surfers after the wedding.  We were impressed that even in this cold, fridgid weather, people could have a great time. 

We were also glad we could see and spend time with Christiana and Corey and Sarah while we were up there

And truly the joy of the ceremony made it all worth it.

It was so much fun to see Uncle Mark (with parkinsons) and Aunt MaryAnn (has MS) see their last child get married.  We are so happy that Aunt Evonne and Uncle Jack could help them get there to witness this amazing event.

Again we weren't thinking very clearly when Spencer announced he would be getting married on December 18th in Boise.  Of course we quickly made plane reservations (not considering that incliment weather might be present), and Oh was it present his wedding weekend.  Everyone kept reassuring us that this was an oddity in Boise... it really didn't matter we were only there for that weekend

But again the joy that we experienced was amazing, and we could almost forget about that white fluffy stuff, that makes roads slick and slippery, and hands cold, because the beautiful bride and groom made us so warm.   

We again had so much fun and were so thankful we could be there. Plus teaching Carter about olives and fingers was just a bonus for the trip!!!

 I figured we'd had more than our fill of snow for the month, then Sheldon came to me and said a friend had offered to let us use their condo in Brian Head and we should go for New Years.  Again I scratched my head and wondered what we were thinking heading back on purpose to spend time in the snow, but everyone was axious to slide down mountains on wood so we planned one more trip to the snow.  We arrived on Wednesday in the worst winter storm they have had this season.  Boy was I thankful for a good snow driver.  We huddled up and spent time in the condo Wednesday, but Thursday we thought we'd brave the weather and go skiing.

Can you tell who we are??

Guess Who???

 Boy did we have to brave the weather.  It snowed all day.  Sarah took boarding lessons, Conner and Loryn borded, too, and the rest of us skiied.  All of my girls hair was frozen to their face at some time during the day.  We had to move our fingers to keep them from becoming frost bitten.  Visibility was poor, lucklily we're not fast enough skiiers to need much visibility.  Even with the bitter, and I mean bitter cold (they said with the wind chill factor is was -37 on the top of chair lift 2) we survived and had a great time.  I did tell Sydnee on our last ride up the lift ... "if it's this cold tomorrow I am not going skiing."  The next morning the sun was out and the themometer did not read -15 so we decided the kids would go all day,

Day 2 Skiing  Here are the hints for who we are Loryn in pink, Conner in multi blue color, Sydnee in Gray

Sarah

Sheldon and I would clean up the condo and go half day and then we'd head home.  It worked out great.  When we arrived and started skiing, I decided this snow is absolutely beatiful.  I haven't skiied that much, but i told Sheldon that was the prettiest best snow I have ever skiied on.  He has skiied a lot and he agreed conditions don't get much better than this.  At the end of the day, I went on one more long really fun run with Meagan.  I could of lasted about 2 more hours, but the kids were done and ready to go so we left.  It was honestly a good end to snow. 

   I could see that it is absolutely beautiful (in the right conditions), and do know this is much more of a purpose to snow than just fun, but I am so very very grateful I live in a warmed part of the world and don't have to experience snow this much each winter.