Utah-Idaho

Still catching up on life!

After Christmas I had planned to go up to UT-ID for a while to see Nikki's (one of my best friends growing up) wedding and my family that was hanging out up in ID. I meant to leave Sat night/Sunday Morning so that i could get there and not be rushed with family and a wedding... but I turned out to be too sick to leave. I finally stopped feeling like i had the stomach flu Monday and tried to leave that night but lost my keys. I spent the whole day taring apart my house trying to find my keys. At 4am, i gave up and finally went to bed. I had a dream that night that I went downstairs walked in to our front room, and in the cracks of our couch, got my keys and left to UT. I woke up... it was 6:30am. I went downstairs, looked in the cracks of our couch and low and behold, there were my keys!! I had prayed and prayed and searched and searched and couldn't find my keys. I'm glad I finally decided to go to bed because if i hadn't, i don't think i would have found them. Thank goodness for personal revelation.

I got on the road and finally left that morning. It was sunny, warm and beautiful. The weather said 10% chance of snow all the way up to ID. But.... after flag staff i ran into a blizzard. I was following a car a decent speed-- not too fast but not too slow. I had passed the grand canyon and not too long after i hit black ice. My poor AZ tires couldn't handle the fish tailing at all. and all of the sudden i saw Abby's side of the car going right towards the road post. i turned my wheels and barely missed it. i thought i was going back on track and then my car took a turn and i ended up doing 180s down the road in the on coming lane. Missing several road posts and signs... going back and forth between the right lane and the on coming lane. then as i was starting to go back into the on coming lane (not good, and it was dark) i saw semi lights coming in my direction. Scared and not wanting to die, i had what i like to call a "Jesus take the wheel moment" (you know, from the Carrie Underwood song). i slammed on my brakes twisted my wheel and hoped for the best. I landed in a small ditch. I barely missed the semi... and i scared the living crap out of the man who was behind me. He was worried I wouldn't be able to get out of the ditch and so was the semi who saw it. But, after i took a deep breathe, watched the semi pass, i was able to amazingly drive out of the ditch make a u-ie and get on my way. Abby wasn't screaming and she didn't seem scared through it all-- so that was helpful. My airbags are now not working because of that little... incident. They didn't pop out, but they should have-- thank goodness they didn't though. I stopped in the next town to put my self back together.

This really didn't help the fact that i needed to be at a wedding in UT the next morning. I drove back up... my baby sitters (my brother's and sisters) were in ID but it was so late that i tried to stay in UT that night because it was also still snowing and my windshield wipers weren't working and my tires weren't driving on the snow well. but no one was answering their phones in UT...

i ended up driving through the night up to ID. Stayed for an hour to shower and then turned around to try and make it to Nikki's wedding with all the snow. I ended up hitting MORE snow and bad stand still traffic. I prayed while i drove and prayed some more that I'd make it in enough time to see Nikki get married but the odds were against me. I missed it. :( I tried so hard Nikki-- sorry!

But I saw her afterward for a split moment. (You were a beautiful bride!!-- Allen definitely found a good catch!)

I definitely said a prayer, thanked my Heavenly Father for letting me come out this trip safe and alive. I know there was heavenly help finding my keys and safely landing in that ditch.

Abby LOVED the snow! At first she was telling me that the snow was an "uh oh" but i told her it wasn't an uh oh and that it was supposed to be like that. After that she was fine with it completely. i didn't mind it as long as i wasn't driving in it with my car. :) Impressively, Abby started going down mom and dad's front hill by herself! She doesn't however like to be hit in the face with snow balls. :)


Here are some pictures from the trip: