Thursday, December 27, 2007

When they say "Extreme Weather Watch Warning", They Aren't Kidding

So We had a most Wonderful Christmas. I just had so much fun. And it was our very first married Christmas together. We were engaged last Christmas, which was really fun and exciting, but this was so much funner.
To start off, my family has a tradition of going to condos up in the Wasatch Mountains for a week for Christmas. This year we went to Strawberry Reservoir and some condos there.
Well, we left Christmas Eve right after work, (and like a miracle ;) Chris was able to leave an hour early from work. Which truned into a huge blessing). Well, as we left the weather had turned from bad to horrid. If you can imagine God putting nickels under all the salt shakers in the whole world and then dumping them onto you, thats what it looked like. Now it was a lot colder than that would be though...
Anyways, we drove up the canyon and we almost slid into a Truck... thanks family for praying for us or we would have hit them... And then like the crazies that we are, we kept going and made it to a town called Heber. Well, it wasn't snowing there so we stopped and bought candy and stocking stuffers... well, we came out and the strom had caught up... only worse. We drove for what seemed like forever under 20 miles an hour on a road that was like a white tunnel all the way around. We couldn't see farther than a few feet ahead or to the side. And when we called my family to ask them where the turn off was, they said, "Just watch the signs." I said, "What signs, I can't see anything." Well, God granted us some more living time and we luckily found the turn off. While we were going towards the cabins, my brother and brother-in-laws, a.k.a. Rescue Squad Alpha and Omega, came out to find us. We passed right by them and didn't see who it was and thought little off it. Well, as we turned into the cabins, after feeling like the end was coming, we passed the right cabin and turned around... and we got stuck. Just to add to our frustratingly Happy Holiday. Well, I got out and realized then how blessed we had been to have made it there at all. The snow came halfway up my calves. The car shouldn't have been able to drive in that at all.
To make a Happy story even Happier, We got into the warm condo, played joyfully with all the fmaily and kids, we got up and ate our late night Cena (mexican dinner at midnight Christmas Eve, then we got up again for Presents and candy. And getting Guitar Hero III was awesome. But seeing Chris' face as she opened up her girly pink Razor was the highlight of my whole year. She is such a doll. Well, Merry Christmas everyone.

1 comment:

Susan said...

Watch out library kids, there's a new gi-tar hero in town...