Why Do We Live In Wisconsin?

Oh Yeah! For a pay check.

Today Church was cancelled for the third (really fourth) time today. Our roads are a solid sheet of ice. Last week the roads were icy and the wind was blowing deep drifts of snow across the road so we went home right after Sacrament Meeting. Church was cancelled on Sunday in December due to the amount of snowfall received overnight and Stake Conference was cancelled in December due to the snowfall.
We have broken the 1979 record snow amount already. We have already gotten more than 80 inches and more is on the way. Our mail boxes are almost buried and we can't see around the snow mounds at the ends of our driveways. We're running out of places to throw the snow. Who know where we'll be able to put this next snowfall that is supposed to hit us today.

I guess we'll just stay inside where it's toasty warm.

Learning To Post Video

Just learning how to post a video. Thanks to my personal trainer Cindy.

This is video from the Chinese New Year Celebration in SLC of the Lion Dance.

Visiting Utah

We headed to Chicago for our flight to Salt Lake City on Wednesday, January 30th. Of course our original flight was cancelled so we ended up on a much later flight thus arriving in SLC much later than was our plan.

Thursday we went skiing at Alta and had beautiful weather for almost half the day. Then it started snowing and got very difficult to see the ski slopes. I went back to the lodge and read my book (New Moon by Stephanie Meyer) and Ken and Carl made a few more runs on the ski slopes. Ken finally came in and Carl made a few more runs on a few more slopes before calling it quits. Even with the snow it was great to be in the mountains again.

Friday we got our hair done thanks to Christi and her willingness to put up with us. Then we went to President Hinckley's viewing at the Conference Center. We parked our car and took Trax into town. It only took us about 15 minutes to get downtown on Trax and we didn't have to pay for parking (or try to find parking). Then we ordered pizza for dinner and played games with the family.

Saturday Hillary Swensen was baptized by her dad and we all went to Chari and Brian's for a great lunch. We're so proud of your Hillary for your decision to be baptized. In the afternoon we went looking at houses with a realtor but didn't find anything we just had to have. I guess the time isn't right for moving back to Utah but we keep looking. One day we'll find the right place and it will be the right time. Later that night we went to the Chinese New Year celebration at Carl and Tracy's church. We had great food and wonderful entertainment.

We arrived back in Chicago on Tuesday, February 5th and the weather was fine. As we go closer to home (driving) it began snowing and the roads started getting very icy. We drove home at 40 mph for approximately 3 hours. What a long ride.

Today it is snowing and we are supposed to get about 10 inches of snow. The wind is blowing so hard that snow is drifting in huge piles on the driveway. What a welcome home. But Woody is very glad to have us back.

Woody's Sick Again

Woody has an ear infection and fluid on his lungs. He now gets to have ear drops once a day and a diuretic twice a day. He spends a lot of time going to the bathroom and we spend a lot of time letting him out. He was coughing a lot but the medicine seems to be helping. It's very hard to watch him getting older and slowing down. I suppose 13-1/2 years is pretty good and so far he's still going strong enough.

New Year's Celebration

New Year's Eve was very quiet here. We stayed up until midnight and watched the ball drop, shared a New Years kiss and toasted the New Year with white grape juice.

It's very cold here in Wisconsin. Last night we were at -3 degrees. With the wind chill it was even colder. Today the wind is blowing but we should be warming up to the 40s by the weekend.

Hope you all had a Happy New Year and made great new years resolutions.