Happy 80th Birthday Grandma!

The entire family traveled to Cody, Wyoming to celebrate my grandma's 80th birthday. Her official birthday was Sunday but we decided to have an open house for her on Saturday at one of the local hotels.

The weather was a little sketchy and several of us had quite the time getting to and from Cody however we were all able to make it by Friday evening and after some delay on the return, we all returned home and had a great time celebrating Grandma's birthday.

I have posted a few of the pictures taken on Saturday for everyone's enjoyment!

Serious Wind Storm!

I wish I'd witnessed the wind storm we had last night but unfortunately I only saw the mess it created. When I woke up this morning, Quent had left me a note telling me that the St. Patrick's Day flag that was so nicely displayed on a flag pole on the front of the house was in the backyard...I figured the flag had ripped and had gone sailing around the yard.

When I opened the screen door to retrieve my cute St. Patrick's Day Flag it was still on the pole! Apparently the wind caught the flag and pole just right and ripped it out of the holder and it sailed over the house. Now I'm not exactly sure how this happens, but we don't have any neighbors that would pull such a prank, so we can only guess it happened with the extreme wind last night.

I guess I'm going to have to remember to take the flag pole down when the wind picks up.

Things are not as they appear

First let me preface this post by adding that it was over 40 degrees here yesterday and the 24 inches of snow we received the first part of the week is melting nicely.

This morning Quent decided he needed a diet coke so being the great and wonderful wife that I am I ran down to Brigham (as the locals call it) to get him a mega 52 ounce diet coke. In my excitement of the clear blue skies and the bright yellow sun I threw on a vest and flip-flops. Not my brightest move. Once in the Jeep the outside temperature read 10 degrees (I knew it was only 5 degrees in Logan this morning so I'm not sure why I would have thought it would be warmer here.) My toes immediately froze however I did not return to get shoes, I proceeded to town and returned with ice cold diet coke and frozen toes.

On the bright side it's supposed to be almost 50 degrees here tomorrow and even warmer next week. With Spring just around the corner, I'm hoping it will be flip-flop season soon.

In other news, Quent worked all week and managed to get caught up after missing over a solid week last week with his cold. The snow storm slowed a few things down at the hatchery but they were able to stock over 3,000 pounds of fish in local ponds yesterday which is another indication that Spring is near.

Doing Better

Quent is back to work after his 12 day cold/sinus infection/bronchitis. Oh the wonders of modern medicine! We woke up to about eight inches of new snow and have had about 4-5 more since then and it's still snowing, and it isn't supposed to stop anytime soon. On the bright side it's supposed to be 50 by the weekend.

Quick Update

Well not much to report ... Quent has been pretty sick with a head cold/sinus infection and finally went to the doctor today. Hopefully he'll start feeling better soon. Other than that things are status quo.