The snow started in the morning, stopped, and then continued overnight. It was wet snow in the morning so it didn't stick, but by the evening it was fluffy snow that stuck and we had beautiful vistas.
We were playing games on Sunday and Courtney was cold. She wrapped up in her blanket to get warm and she started to act silly. Haha!
Courtney had a soccer game against a 7 Elite team from the Salt Lake City area. The other team came down one weekend so they could play each other. There was a bit of confusion about the start time so the game started an hour later than our coach thought it would begin. They lost but they played well.
Courtney is #14.
She is on the right of this picture.
Bryan had a planning commission meeting on my birthday so we decided to do birthday dinner and everything on Monday. He made a wonderful dinner of wild rice, chicken cordon bleu, and wild rice. He had made a German chocolate cake for dessert with vanilla ice cream. It was really yummy.
We went to my parent's house to rake their leaves on Saturday. We only did the front yard so we will need to go back next week and do the gutters and backyard. But they had a lot of leaves.
Bryan used the blower and then Courtney and I gathered them into garbage bags. We had to smash the leaves down so they wouldn't take up so much room. Courtney liked getting into the garbage can to do that.
Courtney didn't start Success Academy until January 11th and she only has classes on B day at SCHS so she had all day on Thursday free. Bryan decided it would be a good time to take her skiing. The passes were cheaper during the week, the holiday crowds would be gone, and they would be able to have fun. So they left early in the morning, headed to Brian Head for a day of skiing.
It was really cold up there and Courtney lost her gloves when she first got on the chairlift, so she had to ski a few runs without gloves but they were able to get them back. And they had a lot of fun. Bryan teases Courtney that she only snowplows but she is enjoying herself so she tells him to be quiet. Courtney loves to ski!
Bryan wore sunglasses but they must not be very good at filtering out the light because his eye got sunburned. They were hurting him really badly. This worked out for Courtney because she got to drive a lot of the way home...on the freeway. She didn't have any problems though and enjoyed it.
They were both pretty sore that night and the next morning.
Courtney needed a dresser in her room so her closet wouldn't be so packed full of bins with clothes in them. We had an old dresser downstairs that I thought would be great in her room. It is one that we got from a neighbor who was getting rid of it. When we first got it, I refinished it and made it look nice, but Courtney wasn't a fan of the wood. So we decided to paint it, get new drawer pulls, and make it look like she would like it to look.
Courtney painted the drawers and I painted the rest (I think I got the better end of the deal) then we found some drawer pulls that she liked. We got it all done in a day and it turned out really cute! We painted it the same color and the mirror in her room so it all coordinates.
Now her closet looks much cleaner and she has someplace to put all her clothes. It's a win-win!
When Courtney and I went to run errands, we found the front windshield completely covered in ice. It wasn't thick ice but it was a new experience for her to scrape windows. I take it for granted that I grew up scraping a lot of windshields but she didn't know how to do it. I had to talk her through it. She did a great job but was a bit put out that she had to scrape windows at all!
This is how it started out:
We get snow about every year but it usually isn't too much. This time it was just enough to cover the roads for a while and then it all melted by the afternoon. But it was fun to have some while it lasted. It snowed for quite a while (which you can tell by the change of clothes for Courtney). It was also very cold which made it stay for longer than I would have expected.
It's 2021 and I hope it will be a much better year than 2020 turned out to be. Although I remember being happy to see 2019 leave but now I can't remember why.
We are not party animals in our house so we watched the Ball drop in Times Square with the East Coast and then Bryan and I went to bed. Courtney stayed up to watch the last of 2020 disappear and welcome 2021 but we were too tired.
Although, we did stay up until after midnight the next night, go figure!
