More amazing snow pictures!!!

Well I will start by saying it warmed up a bit yesterday. We are hovering around freezing, but it's enough to start melting what we have. the main streets are bare, side streets are a mess still. I'm telling you, I have never been so happy to see rain!!! If your getting sick of snow pics just let me know. I have some from my phone I still need to dowload too. They won't be as good a quality but around town was an amazing sight to see. Store parking lot snow piles from plowing were so high that in most cases you could only see the very top of buildings. We did have a nice Christmas though, We did Turkey and it turned out perfect!!! quiet day at home together staying warm. Hope you all had a nice Christmas too.

Below you will see Doug stuck in the back yard!!! we had to go back and shake the snow off our Arborvitae bushes a few times. Take into consideration that he is already on higher ground than normal because of the snow pack he is standing on then the snow is at waist as well.

I took this picture from the very back of the yard, I normally look up to this tree, but as you can see i am level with it here.

This picture was taken from our patio. Me and my next door neighbor rest our elbows on that fence while we chat (during the summer, when it's warm) just to give you some perspective on how high the snow got.

Of course this is my snow project which lasted from December 18th until it finally fell yesterday, December 27th. This picture was also taken from the patio on the 26th.

And here is a front view taken early am on the 26th. it was the warmth that made it fall. Crazy!!!

We are over four feet of snow now!!! Never seen anything like it.

First of course is my snow project. Day Five another foot or more of snow and Its still hanging on


For those of you who are familiar with the area, the picture below is the car dealership by costco though you can't see any of the cars :)

This one is Sprague, main road through the valley.

This is Woodruff, Which is the road we turn onto to get out of our development.

And this is our house. We are needing some avalanche control on the sides of the driveway from all the snow shoveling!!!! Hope everyone is doing well and staying warm!!!

Kims Snow Project

First I had to show you this, The leaves barely peeking out that you see are my rose bushes and the branches at the end of the walk is my lilac bush. Granted thats snow we shoveled too but you can see in the yard that the pile isn't much higher than the actual snow.

This one is my project, its our back deck. Yesterday around noon the snow fell off of the longer portion of the deck but as you can see on the shorter portion it is spiraling and hanging on. I took this picture this morning so two days now and still doesn't look like it's going to give. If you look at the far right side on the back, you can see how far it is hanging over on the back side. Thankfully all the snow is very light and fluffy so were just leaving it on the deck to see how high it will get. Were supposed to get 6 more inches on Sunday and they are pretty much calling for snow on and off through Christmas. Definately going to be a white christmas for us!!!

More Snow!!!

Here is the very latest. it's finally stopping for now. We measured 29 inches in snow and were supposed to get up to 6 more inches Sunday. Spokane is closing down and not manypeople are on the roads. They say that this is historic since they started recording weather. I will post some more pics tomorrow.

SNOW! SNOW! SNOW!

We have 4 inches and it doesn't look like it's going to stop anytime soon!!!!!

Britneys First Formal!!!

We sent Britney off tonight on her first formal. Her dates name is Ryan, they were going to the Olive Garden for dinner but the roads are really bad here right now so they are sticking to the valley. Can't believe it!!! Time goes by sooo fast!!!

A little blurry, but had to post it.

Sweet 16!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRITNEY!!!

Britney is done with blonde.......... for now

Britney decided to go darker!!! Here is her new look.

Why Cats and insulin pumps don't go together

Britney spent the night with a friend this weekend. Before continuing, i will say she is ok. She has spent the night with this girl many times but this time fell asleep with her pump out and normally it is in her pocket. This girl has cats and cats have a fascination with insulin pumps. We believe it's the insulin smell, anyway the pictures below tell the story. Britney called at 2:45 and below is what the cat had done to her pump!!!! Britneys blood sugar was high but came right back down thankfully and medtronic is going to replace the pump under the warranty, so we won't pay pay (enormous blessing considering it's a $5,000.00 piece of medical equipment). I just think it's crazy what a cat can do and had to share.

The two pictures at the bottom are the replacement pump and the one the cat destroyed side by side.

Huge Answered Prayers!!!!

So last week I went and stayed with Teresa and started my speech therapy at the UW. Scott and Teresa of course spoiled me!!! We went to the Cheesecake Factory ( i have never been there) Oh my goodness, I can only think of a few times in my life that I have had food that good and there Cheesecake.... what can I say, I'm speechless.

Now for the Speech therapy, that went amazingly well. I have worked out twice on my eliptical machine for 20 minutes, I had some issues but worked through them and was able to use the things I learned and I could breath. I haven't been able to do that for over 2 years!!!! I will be going back at least 3 more times and down the road may need more testing done because of the acid reflux but I have hope for the first time in a long time.

The drive over was beautiful, I don't think I have ever driven over that time of year. I forgot my camera but I did get a few pics on my cell phone as you can see above. If you click on Scott and Teresas blog you will see a picture of Gabby and I at the cheesecake factory.

Teresa tagged me

Teresa http://www.johnsonjots.blogspot.com/ tagged me. This is a picture of my husband and i at a place called the swing bridge in Montana. Not my favorite picture but I posted it because it was the only picture of me from that day and I knew if I posted pictures of the rest of my family and didn't have one of me, Someone who shall remain nameless (Teresa :) ) would give me a hard time. So here it is.

Britneys editing

These are the same pictures as below. Britney has gotten into editing colors, lighting etc. so I thought I would show you. The dog is the neighbors not ours.

New Dishes

Ok Teresa, Here they are. So far I'm doing good right? Don't count on posts this often all the time though ;-)