A Very Merry Christmas

So I will put pictures on here later after I download them from my camera. We had such a great Christmas. We drove to Holden on the 24th to spend some time with Cade's family. It was a new adventure having to split time between his dad's house and his mom's house, but I think we managed to make everyone happy. Cade got a Skilsaw from me and I think he really likes it, too. He also got an airsoft gun (I'm not sure what his mother was thinking buying him that), but he is forbidden to shoot me or our cat. Cade gave me some new clothes and a wonderful heated blanket.

Christmas night we decided to leave for Salina so we could spend the morning of the 26th with my family and leave for Logan earlier. But we got caught right in the middle of the blizzard on our way. It was so scary driving through that and there were times on the freeway that we couldn't see the road at all. At best we could see a few feet in front of us. So we made it so Scipio and decided not to go any farther. We called a guy in the Bishopric to see if he could open the church for us to stay in, but he told us we could stay at his house for the night. Then we got a call from Cade's dad saying his new step-sister Brooke and her 2-year-old daughter had slid off the road right outside Scipio and needed help. Luckily the man we were staying with has a 4 wheel drive Dodge diesel truck so he offered to take Cade and go get the girls. Needless to say, it was a good thing we had stayed in Scipio or they would have been stranded.

Friday morning we drove to Salina to spend the day with my family. I was so glad to see the little kids. We gave Jaylee and Kinley a doctor's kit and we gave Rance a dump truck. They were so cute telling me how Santa came to their house and left presents for them. We had to cut the day a little short because of the weather so we could get home again. The drive home was clear, but icy all over. And we came home to lots of snow in Logan. We had to dig out the drive-way before we could pull the car in. We had probably just over a foot of fresh snow in the driveway; the end of the driveway had even more because of the piles pushed up by the snow plows. It is warming up today, but we've heard more snow is coming tomorrow and on New Year's Day. Hopefully we'll make it through the winter and come spring time we'll have more water than we'll know what to do with.