White and wonderful Christmas-December 25, 2014

The more we listened to the threats about impending winter weather, we all decided to not make the trip to Denver for Christmas. As it turned out that was a very wise move. It's safe to say it was a "God thing", not our own decision. We went to Derrick's to see what Santa brought Hannah and Zoey. They made a great haul. That Elf on the Shelf must have given a really good report to Santa.

 

Hannah serving up "food" for her Daddy from her new kitchen.

Never mind the rest of the mess in the family room. It happens.

We did not confess that we bought her a kitchen for her play room here.

They are very different so it won't be a problem.

 

The snow started exactly when they predicted. And it also rained first. Jerry has not driven on ice in over 10 years. We left their house at 4:00 and we did not have any problems, but it takes strategy to travel over ice. We did pretty well until we got very near our street. A Cadillac and a Camero both lost control and could not go up the hill. A pick up behind them started fishtailing. And I prayed! The Camero gave up and pulled to the side of the road. The Cadillac and truck both turned sideways but managed to give us enough room to make the turn. We drove into our garage and before we got the Cute Red Vehicle unloaded our tire tracks were covered up. We all know we would not have made it back from Denver in this. We would have had to find a place to spend the night. The snow will not stop until later in the day tomorrow. You have no idea how relieved we are to have stayed here.

 

At 12 noon it was just starting to snow.

 

At 4:20 our car tracks were barely visible.

 

At 4:30 the street in front of our condo and the parking lot of

the high school across the street were really accumulating lots of snow.

We'll see what tomorrow morning looks like.

 

So, you see we truly had a white Christmas. And it was cold, too. We are happy and thankful to be warm and dry.

 

I must tell you that among many gifts we received the most shocking of all were tickets to the Neil Diamond concert on May 31, 2015. He will be in Denver that evening. No matter how many times I have seen him I still get as excited as a teenager to see another show. It was all I could do to keep from crying when I saw the print out for the tickets. What a shock! What a wonderful gift! I don't want to wish the time away but I can hardly wait to see the show. Derrick said that was a thank you for all the babysitting. That's quite a thank you.

 

We had a fabulous day and hope you did, too.