Wyoming Winter Snow.

AS most of you know, we live in cold snowy country. The wind blows and the weather is stinky during the winter. We had the WORST winter storm we have seen yet over the Christmas holiday and came home to quite a mess at our house. It stormed all day Christmas and we were afraid that we weren't going to be able to get out of the neighborhood the next day to leave for vacation. Dan woke up at 5 am and decided to make a trial run out of the neighborhood to see if we could make it out safely. As he left he said "Call our neighbor to come and rescue me if I am not back in an hour." About 59 minutes later Dan returned with the decision that we could make it out even though he get stuck multiple times during his attempt. Keep in mind it should only take him 20 minutes to make the round trip out of the neighborhood. So, we loaded up the children in the -20 storm and headed out for the wildest adventure of our lives. The tracks that Dan created were covered by the time we left, so it was a blind shot. We ended up in the ditch with no visibility and no sight of where we were on the road. So, me being brave and not afraid to the -35 wind chill stuck my head out the window and saw a glimpse of a green road sign and told my husband to go for it. As we were 4 feet deep in snow and praying that we would make it out I thought to myself, what on Earth are we doing? After getting stuck multiple times and my awesome husband working us out, we made it to the highway in just over an hour. It was the longest 2 miles of my life, but it was loads of fun!! The following Sunday we got a call from out neighbor and he said that no one got out of the neighborhood until the plows came that Friday afternoon. I can believe it! He also suggested that we call someone with heavy equipment to plow our driveway because we had huge drifts that had built up (thank you Wyoming wind). Dan decided that he could clear it up with the plow on our 4-wheeler and it should be no big deal because nothing that bad had ever come. As you can see from the pictures.. It was BAD! Our truck made it about half way up the driveway before the snow was way to deep for us to go any further. We got home at 1am and we each took a kid and made the trek up to the house. After church the next day, Dan spent the afternoon and evening trying to get all of the snow plowed out of the driveway with our plow. He was successful,cold, and frustrated, but we can again drive up and down our road. We also included a great picture of our swing set that is now buried for the winter! I love Wyoming!