May 8th

Wow! It is May already!! Where has this year gone...

Ok, lets see where do I start for the past two weeks....

I guess with Kristian's birthday. He turned 11! That is hard to believe. He had a sleepover and had 3 boys spend the night. Two other kids, Kellie and Russell came over the for the cookout that night and to hang out. We sat the tent up in the basement and they had a "camp out". They had a great time. The next day I took them to see the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movie.

The next big thing that happened, would have to be the blizzard that hit and no one, including the weather man, knew it was coming. They had called for a rain/snow mix. Well what we got was 3-4 foot of snow! I had Tracy's kids and she ended up with Kristian over night, because there was no way to get to each other. Mike ended up getting stuck about 5 miles from home. He got a ride with some people that live about a mile and a half from here. When he realized that they weren't going to make it out to bring him home, he WALKED the rest of the way. IN his dress clothes. Luckily he had his ski jacket with him. It took him about an hour to walk it. It was in the middle of the blizzard and the wind was about 50 mph. I had no idea he was even trying to walk this way. About half a mile from here our neighbors were stuck in the road with their twin 2 year old girls and their other two girls who are 10 and 12. They were stuck from 1 p.m. that afternoon till the next morning about 8 when Mike went and dug them out. We had lost power around noon that day and they had decided to drive into town and stay in a hotel, but they didn't make it. Fortunately they were prepared, just in case they didn't make it and had blankets, snacks, etc. There were about 60 cars stuck on the highway from here to town, which is about 3o miles. We ended up being without power until Thursday evening, but we had the generator, so it wasn't as bad as it would've been. They had over 200 power poles down because of the snow and wind. It was a mess. Hopefully that was the last of winter for us. Of course I say that every time. The weather this week has been A LOT better. We hit 80 degrees on Sunday. The kids were playing in what was left of the snow wearing shorts. Just another day in Colorado!

I did my walk for March of Dimes on Saturday, the 28th. Between the 3 of us, we raised $1255! I still can't believe we did it. Thank you to everyone who donated. I truly do appreciate it!

We leave tomorrow to go to Oklahoma for Mike's sister's wedding. We decided because of the high price of gasoline and because we have a gas guzzling vehicle, that we would fly home. One it is faster and two it was almost the same price. Now how sad is that? Anyway, we are looking forward to the trip home. It will be a quick one, but it will be nice to see everyone.

I don't have any pictures this time. My camera wasn't charged for Kristian's party, but my video camera and it takes pictures too. But I haven't figured out how to download them to the internet.

Other than that, not a lot going on. Just taking it day by day and little by little. I hope all is well with you all. Until next time...