Cookie Party

Christmas Eve morning we always go to Chases sister Tamara's house to have breakfast and decorate cookies for Santa. It is one of my favorite parties of the holidays. As usually we had a lot of fun. We take a picture of all of the grand kids of the stairs, pretty soon we won't be able to fit on the stairs.

Christmas Sunday 2008

We made it to Arizona on time to go to church. We went to Chase's parents ward. I did not get a group shot of everyone in there Sunday clothes, so they are all separate.

On our Way to Arizona

The week before we where supposed to leave we got hit with a ton of snow storms. We where scheduled to leave on Saturday the 20th but a huge storm was supposed to hit on top of the already accumulating snow. There was a storm on Thursday that kept everyone home from school and work. Friday there was supposed to be a break in the storms before Saturday. School was canceled so we decided to leave Fri. Thursday night we decided we needed to get our car down the hill or it would be to icy in the morning to get it out. Chase pulled the car out of the driveway and he immediately started sliding down the hill. He had know control. He ran into one of the tractors on the side of the road that bumped him back into the right path and he was able to turn and not go straight onto the main busy road. We should have known if it was that hard to get out of our driveway that it was going to be a hard drive. That night to load up the car we had to put our luggage on our sleds and pull it down the street. The next morning it was sunny and we where on our way. The sun only lasted for about 1 hr. and then we had snow storms the rest of the way. It was supposed to take us 12 hrs. to get to Salt Lake, we left at 8:30 in the morning and arrived in Layton Utah at 2:00 a.m. We didn't really even stop, because we didn't want to get stuck. I took pictures of the drive by our house but as soon as it got scary I put the camera away. It was one of the scariest things we have ever done. There where times when we could not see a foot in front of us and we where sliding every where. It felt like we sledded all the way down to Utah. It was complete snow and ice you couldn't even see the roads. I prayed the whole time, it was a miracle that we made it. I don't think we will be doing that again any time soon.

Snow Day

The week before Christmas break we had only a couple days of school, the rest were snow days. Chase was even home, because the roads were so bad he couldn't get to work. It was a lot of fun. We went sledding and playing in the snow.