Saturday evening Zane, Ethan & I drove to Firth to watch the boys' basketball team play at districts. When we left, it was snowing, but as we drove farther south, it turned to rain.
We watched the team play, and they lost in the final minute, 41-48.
We stayed to watch the first half of the next game, and then left. When we walked outside, we saw the biggest snow flakes that I have ever seen! It was quite beautiful.
But driving it the weather was another story.
(photo from Google)
We were lucky to drive 30 mph. We finally reached Idaho Falls & stopped at Wal-Mart to pick up a couple of things. Ethan decided to "let" me drive the rest of the way.
The driving was "fair" when we were in town with all the lights, but as soon as we were on the interstate, we went back to barely being able to see more than a few feet in front of us.
I felt like we were driving at "warp" speed, only going 25-30 mph. We could have easily been in this scene from "Star Wars" (so I guess that makes Ethan a wookiee like Chewbacca??)
The 65 mile trip (mostly on the interstate) took us almost 3 hours (including the 10 minute stop at Wally World).
I had a prayer in my heart the whole trip--and I made sure that Ethan & Zane were on the look out for the rumble strips to make sure I was still on the road. I said many prayers of thanksgiving when we finally made it home.
Now onto the rest of the weekend:
Sunday after church, Benjamin decided to get his own snack.
A whole bag of goldfish crackers into his Buzz Lightyear bowl!
I guess he was really hungry!
He thought it was quite funny
Maybe
But he was still happy with the 20 goldfish crackers we did let him keep in his bowl.
Then Emmalee wanted her picture taken--and wanted to see how many funny faces she could make.
(Notice how good her eyes look!)
Ethan took a nap Sunday after church. I'm sure he would have liked a longer nap, but there were too many little children playing around him...
and with his pillow.
Monday was our cleaning day--I was way behind on laundry, so did laundry non-stop. But I had all the bedding from the beds to wash to try to get rid of all the germs.
And we really thought the boys' room could be cleaned before lunchtime, but for some reason, it is always harder to get them to clean, than it is to clean it myself! But I had them clean, clean & clean (and they found a few extra loads of laundry in their mess of a room).
I think they would have liked to clean their room like this,
or this, but they actually did a good job. And I was able to vacuum the bedrooms--even along the edges.
So while the rooms aren't as clean as I would like, they are much, much cleaner. We will work on the rest another weekend!
