The snow continued to fall all day yesterday and all through the night last night. It finally subsided sometime around 10-11 am this morning. Just look at how much snow is on these benches (above) -- this was taken yesterday afternoon, so add about 4 inches to that and that's how much snow we ended up with. Now the sun is shining and the snow is steadily melting. You really have to dodge the giant snow blobs falling out of the treetops! All freeways were closed last night and this morning. We needed to be at stake conference anyway, but I was bummed that I couldn't be in Logan for baby Cannon's blessing. Looks like the storm would have been a problem anyway. Sorry we weren't able to make it to the baby blessing, Juge and Stanton -- hope everything was wonderful (doubtful that it was anything but).
Due to the heavy snow on the trees we lost several pretty significant branches in both the front and back yards. We're very thankful that they didn't hit the house.
We were reminded during stake conference today that it was an unseasonably early 18 inch snow storm that stranded the Martin Handcart company so many years ago. Tears flowed as I thought about the excruciating cold and wet conditions they endured. We are so blessed to live in such luxury and comfort. The snow was nothing more than a minor inconvenience, at worst, in fact, it is actually quite beautiful and fun! I'm sure the early saints considered snow to be a lot of things, but 'fun' was probably not one of them.
