Wilkinsonland

So today it snowed in socal! yay! It was especially exciting because Dale got the day off of work because the entire freeway was shut down and at a dead stand still from the snow in the pass he was supposed to commute through. So we had a snow day! We took Ethan up to Forest Falls to see his first snow! Of course we ended up hitting a few bumps in the road (almost literally). We ran into the chains checkpoint and of course didn’t have any chains, so we asked the caltrans guy if we could go just two miles further to Forest Falls to show our son some snow. It looked clear and there wasn’t that much snow right there, so we thought we were good. The caltrans guy was like “well I’m not an enforcer, I’m not gonna give you a ticket, but I wouldn’t if I were you”. Dale and I took that as a ‘yes’. We got almost all the way there and we were crossing a bridge when all of a sudden we hit some slushy ice and started sliding. We slid almost all of the way across the bridge while Dale got the car under control. On the other side we had started going up a hill and it just wasn’t happening. Our tires started spinning and there was nowhere for us to go because there was snow on both sides of us. So we had to hit the brakes and Dale jumped out while I drove and Dale tried to push so we could turn around and get the heck out of there. Well, that wasn’t working either. We were sliding around everywhere and not in the direction we were hoping for. I was soooo scared. I started getting tears in my eyes, I thought we were done for. But Dale got back in the drivers seat and managed to back up and turn around somehow. I was trying to take Ethan out of the car because I was sure we were going to crash! But Dale was calm and collected and assured me that he could get us out of the mess we were in. And he was right! Somehow we got turned around and managed to start going back down the hill. Everything seemed ok (except my heart was beating a hundred miles an hour) until we got going a little ways down the hill and came to the stop sign intersection. Dale tried to stop and he couldn’t. We started sliding everywhere again and we literally slid all the way through the intersection, blazing by one of the caltrans workers. We were sooo lucky we did not crash. And how foolish of us to disregard the recommendation of the caltrans people. Especially with our little baby in the car! Luckily for all of us, Dale is a really good driver or we could have had a different outcome. I was praying the whole way and God was definitely watching out for us. Little Ethan didn’t know a thing that was happening thank goodness, and we were able to stop just a bit ahead and take him out to see the snow. It wasn’t as deep and magnificent at the spot we stopped at as it had been further up, but at least it was safe! So we took a few pics, Ethan held snow in his fingers for a moment, and then we hopped back in the car and headed back down the mountain. It was definitely a snow day adventure!

Happy to be safely out of the car!

For those of you inquiring, I still do not have a computer. Again I am borrowing Dale’s. My computer seems to be completely dead and beyond resurrection. Several people have looked at it to no avail. Now I am simply hoping that they can get the information off of it as it has all of Ethan’s baby pictures on there! If I lost those it would be completely devastating! So, now I am starting to look to see if I can get a new computer. It’s so hard though to choose, especially when it’s Christmas time and all of our money is going to presents and such…it’s so tempting to get the cheapest one I can find. But I have to remind myself that this is for long-term so I have to think about functionality, practicality and the like…etc, etc. So anyways, long story is that it may be a while before I get a new computer and have full access to post more pics and stuff. I’m sorry everyone! And I’m sorry I rambled on too! I’ll try to be more succinct in coming posts!

Merry Christmas everyone!

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