Jenny, her family and Tiffany were planning on driving up on Monday to visit, but they had to postpone and drive up Tuesday instead. Tuesday there were warnings everywhere about a huge arctic blizzard that was headed our way and should hit about 6pm Tuesday evening and work it’s way down through the entire state of Utah. So I called Jenny to warn her about it, and told them to drive carefully and keep me posted on where they are, and that I would tell them when the storm hit my area. Kyle emailed his second job about working from home Tuesday night so there would be no chance of him getting stuck somewhere in the storm. (February 13 2008, there was a really bad storm and Kyle hadn’t left work early so it took him EIGHT HOURS to drive home that night, normally it’s just a 45-60 minute drive.) They told him that he couldn’t work from home for security reasons, but that they would allow him to have the night off without any negative attendance penalties kicking in. YAY! So I only had to worry about Jenny and her family being on the road.
Once they got into Utah they started texting us to let us know where they were, and what the weather conditions on the road were and they kept asking what the weather was like where we are. I would look out the window and I never saw any snow falling. It was really windy, and that made it really cold, but I didn’t see the snow on the lawn getting higher and the only snow I saw flying around in the sky was the stuff that was blowing off our roofs, definitely not a blizzard amount of snow. The next morning there still wasn’t much new snow on the ground, so I don’t know why the media made such a HUGE deal about this massive storm that was heading our way. At least Kyle got the night off out of it. 🙂
Most of that snow was there before the ‘storm’. The kids really had a fun time playing in it though.
Today Debby came over too, to visit with everybody. We hung out for awhile then Jenny, Debby, Tiffany and I went to do some minor shopping. Jenny needed to pick up a few things, and I needed to go get some new decoration for our new tree. So we left Tom with the 7 kids and we took off for a bit. We were only gone for a couple of hours then we came back to the house and I got some dinner on the table. Then Tom and Jeff left to go on a bit of a trip to Wyoming. And us girls just hung out with the kids for awhile before getting them into bed. Jenny took lots of cute pictures of the kids since they were so happy to be with their cousins and have everybody else here too.
Dinah found Debby’s big fuzzy boots and was clomping around the house in them for a bit.
Aw, so cute! Like I said they were SO happy to be able to spend some time together. I love Debby’s crazy over excited smile in the background too. 🙂
All seven of my parent’s grandchildren.
After Dinah tired of playing with Debby’s boots she found Jenny’s sunglasses and decided to wear those for awhile. She’s just so cute. 🙂
Then we put the kids to bed and I went to work making pies!