Clovis meet winter, winter meet Clovis!

On Wednesday it was 60 degrees outside, and wonderful. However, the talk was about all the snow we were going to wake up to on Thursday. In the past, every time we have heard these forecasts we hope for a real snow storm and nothing much happens. During Wednesday night into the whee hours on Thursday morning, every time I got up to feed Averi I looked outside and all I saw was rain. Ryan woke up sometime around seven to get ready for work and woke me up to tell me it had definitely snowed. Some time between 5:30am and 7:30am the freezing rain had finally turned into snow. Under all this lovely white fluff is a nice thick sheet of ice! So we did what we never thought we could and literally stuffed the truck in the garage. I seriously didn't think it could ever work, but Ryan did it! This is truly a tight squeeze. There are only inches around each vehicle and the truck is pulled all the way in touching the motorcycle and the garage door still touches the bumper on the truck. Ryan needed to get in the Camaro this morning and he had to climb through the hatch. To get from the truck into the house we have to use the front door. For some reason, I find this all too funny!

(One of our frozen trees)

If there is mail in there, we won't be getting it anytime soon!

The upside to all of this, Ryan gets a four day weekend with his family!

Highlights from Christmas

Christmas vacation came and went like cookies and milk! Here is a quick run down of our vacation:

Arrived in Utah on Saturday, December 19th after driving ALL night! Why we do that to ourselves, I really don't know! But the girls did great.

Monday and Tuesday, December 21 & 22 Ryan spent both days finishing up his A&P testing and I am proud to announce that he is now A&P licensed! This means that he can legally work on airplanes!

Tuesday night Brandon, Christy, and Duncan arrived in Utah. The Andreasen family was finally together again after four years!

On Saturday December 26th we had a Christmas party with my dad's family. By some divine power everyone was there! First time that has happened in a really long time. But I didn't have my camera. So if anyone in the Johnson family has those pictures, please email them to me!

The rest of our trip was spent running back and forth between Brigham City and Millville and then it was time to come home.

So here are some pictures to recapture the moments.

(Kiera sporting our Christmas tree)

We had our own little family Christmas party before we left for Utah.

(Kiera's new hat and scarf)

(Ryan, Kiera, and cousin Duncan)

(Uncle Adam and the girls on Christmas morning)

(Adam and, his so cute girlfriend, Whitney)

She melts my heart!

(Andreasen grandkids in their Christmas pajamas)

We did make time to catch a good game of go-cart racing. This was real racing style people!
(Kyle, Me, Brandon, and Christy. Ryan was taking the picture and Jessica blessed us with watching the kids.)

And finally after two weeks of Kiera driving us crazy asking when it was going to snow, it did!

Once again, the Andreasen brothers built their towering snowman. I forget the height (15 feet) but it beat last years record and that was all that mattered. Once again, I didn't get a picture of it, so for all you Andreasen's out there, please email them to me if you have any!

Our sweet little Kiera was not at all happy about this photo shoot. But hey, we're all together!

And there you have it. It has only taken me two weeks to complete this post. Phew, it's done!