Our Snow Day

Lake Powell National Golf Course in the snow.

This is just

down the street

from our house-It was beautiful.

Our "snow day" from school was a great gift! We relaxed, went out to lunch, and drove around to see all the snow we got. These are a few of the pictures Todd took. I love the Tower Butte picture just above. It was a beautiful sight, and only one block away.
We are supposed to get hit again with another snow storm tonight. (Lake Powell will surely fill up this summer.) Jacob and Tyler got here this afternoon and said it was a "white out" in Flagstaff this afternoon. So glad they got home safe.

Make up your mind!

OK, so winter has really arrived in Page! Today, we woke up to the phone ringing at 5AM telling us school was on a Late Start schedule, meaning we don't start until 9:30. The roads out on the REZ were pretty bad and our busses were having trouble picking up the kids. Then, at 11:30, they announced that we were having a 1/2 day and school would be let out at 12:30, and that school was cancelled for tomorrow! Yeah!! However, they added that the teachers still had to stay today and come in tomorrow! BOO! Then, at 3:00 they announced that all staff could go home and did not have to come in tomorrow. At this point, I just wanted someone to make up their mind!!!
I guess this is supposed to be a BIG snow storm and we get a snow day!! First one in several years.
This is supposed to be the big boys basketball tournament weekend, and as of today, no one knows if any of the teams will show up. I will have to work if they go ahead with the tournament. Again, I wish someone would make up thier mind!!!
If the storm is really big, we'll go around and take some pictures. It is truly amazing and beautiful when the desert is snowed upon!

Winter has come!

I know, I know, I am not great at updating this blog. It's just that we are very busy this time of year with school stuff and we are boring!

We spent a fun Thanksgiving with Jacob and Tyler hosting dinner for some of their friends. It was a nice time. We knew that as soon as Thanksgiving was over, Todd and I would be non-stop with school sports. Every year on the first and third weekend in December we have basketball tournaments. Todd and I both work these tournaments. He covers the games for the Flagstaff paper and I am in charge of the Hospitality Room. It makes it very difficult to celebrate our anniversary and get ready for Christmas. But, we managed to remember our anniversary last Sunday. We've been married 17 years!!! Todd went out early that morning to pick up my flowers--12 long-stemmed roses--and a man in line at the store said, "Were you out late last night?"(Implying Todd was in trouble with me.) The flowers were beautiful and I am so grateful to be married to such a thoughtful, wonderful guy!

A few years ago Page quit sponsoring the Parade of Lights with ARA on the lake. They brought the parade to town. So last night at 6 PM we went downtown to watch the parade.

I've never been able to watch it before--it's always been the same time as the BB Tournament. It was a real treat and a nice/festive touch. It wasn't very cold either. That is until---------

The weather in Page has been so warm and nice we forgot what it was like to be cold. After the Parade of Lights, we settled in to watch more of Season 3 of LOST (our new favorite show) and we heard the wind blowing real hard. We went out side and saw a winter wonderland. It was snowing quite hard and the temperature had dropped over 10 degrees in one hour.

You can see how large the snow flakes were. It was fun to see the snow, but oh, so cold. Today, it is very cold outside and like always, the snow has all melted. Maybe we can have a repeat performance on Christmas Eve! I can always hope.