THATCHER FAMILY

Hello, can you all believe it is the last day of January? I can not believe how time flies. This past week has been an interesting one here on Squash Blossom. Saturday it began to snow and it snowed all weekend and all day Monday-Wednesday. It was Crazy.
Monday, Robbie had a Dentist appointment. It took us over 45 minutes to get from our house to the dentist office. Can you say Crazy. I decided to keep the boys home from school cause I didn't want to travel anymore (I so dislike driving in the snow) so when we got home we hooked a sled up to the 4 wheeler and off we went on a fun little ride. Tuesday, School was cancelled do to all of the snow, neg. 25 degree temps. and crazy wind. Tuesday night I had signed up to take rolls to the Missionaries for their zone conference. Well the boys and I started off to take the rolls, we made it out of the driveway, and headed onto the road and we got stuck in a snow drift that when I got out of the car I sunk to my knees. (gotta love the wind) I proceed to walk home get a shovel and I start trying to dig myself out. Thankfully I have some nice people that live in Wyoming ( I seem to be the one who is need of service recently) anyway 2 guys stop in 2 different trucks, it takes 1 truck pushing the car and 1 truck pulling the car to get us out. Wednesday, school was cancelled for half a day again do to weather. Thursday, must have been uneventful cause I don't remember much about it. Friday, we spent the day getting ready for today.
Saturday, was snow days. What is snow days? Snow days is where all of the cub scouts get together on top of the mountain and make snow sculptures. They have to design the snow, sculpt it and then paint it. It was rather a fun and enjoyable day.
I put the pictures on here via a slide show at the bottom of this so I hope you all enjoy our week in the snow.

We love you all.

Okay, so I just have to let you all know that it has been snowing and it has been for 3 days straight. The weatherman says that it is supposed to continue through Tuesday. Some huge snow totals by the end of it. This last week has been crazy. I cleaned and cleaned and cleaned. Come to find out that it was all done unnoticed. We had the missionaries over for dinner on Friday night. They are rather fun 2 of the 3 are from Utah, which makes it fun to talk with them. Jeannette came over on Friday and we tied a quilt. She is amazing at sewing them. As from the picture you can see we also had company. Kennen's brother Chris came to visit for Saturday night, which was a lot of fun. Wish he could have stayed longer.
We also took our kids to PlayHouse Disney Live. We attended this on Sunday afternoon at the Casper Event Center. I feel very lucky to live in the event area of Wyoming so that we don't have to travel. Sid had a great time, there was Handy Manny. That is way cool huh mom.

Today was a day off of school. It was also Kennen's day off of work which worked out great. We went with some friends and launched a rocket. Yes, we got to launch a rocket on Jan.19 in Wyoming. It was 50 degrees and hardly any wind. It was LOVELY. This is the guys and the kids getting the rocket ready for lift off.

Our Sledding Trip. We had so much fun. Thanks Jeannette for inviting us to go. This picture is of Hayley and Jackson Berg

Hello to you all. Today is Tuesday. I shouldn't be excited but guess what???? Tonight is Robbie's scouts. I was able to help with the activity. That so excites me. I miss scouts a ton.

Everyone is doing good. Sid started school on Monday and Robbie doesn't start until next Monday. We were able to celebrate Ashleighs birthday with her, via the phone. It was fun.

Kennen made it home on Sunday night. He got the car fixed yesterday, it was his day off. So, I have a car again.

Layla, I loved your uncle Jay. How funny is that???

I hope this finds you all well. Happy Tuesday to you. We love each of you.

Happy Birthday!!! today is my Ashleighs birthday. YIPPY!!!! I just want her to know how much I love and appreciate her. She is one amazing person and I am glad that I get to call her my friend. She has taught me so much. I am glad she is there for me whenever I call her.

Happy New Years to you all. I usually don't write in the middle of the week but I found our experience today blog worthy.

Here it goes. Kennen got called to work at 5 am this morning. They told him to pack a bag cause he would be gone a couple of days. I was mad and stewed about that until about 9 and then got out of bed and got on the computer to see what fun things the boys and I could do. Well I came up with this brilliant plan to go to Thermopolis. I called Jeannette and Ron and asked if they would like to join us. They said sure we would love to go. We met at noon and off we went. We got between Shoshoni and Thermopolis and my car would not steer anymore, I was going through tunnels and curves without steering and then it just died. Thankfully there was a wide spot to roll off into. I sat there for about 5 mins. thinking Ron and Jeannette will surely see that I am no longer behind them. Then I sat in the car and the boys and I said a quick prayer. A nice family pulled over to help. The kids took me to the reservoir and the mom stayed with the boys. (yes I trusted a stranger with my kids on the side of the road) They took me so that we could get phone service. I tried to call Jeannette knowing that she probably didn't have service either. So I called Kennen. He laughed and said this is an adventure you could only have in Wyoming.

I started to cry at that point cause that is not what I wanted to hear. I wanted him to say something comforting. So he tells me to see if these people would help me get to Thermopolis so that I could get a motel room, a tow truck and a mechanic. ( I was mad at that cause I have a mechanic and he got called into work). By the time we got back to the car Jeannette was there, she had a strong impression and they turned around. She had the feeling as I was saying a prayer. Amazing what the spirit can do. Anyway, Ron gets into the car and gets it turned around. He is able to get it started and only goes about a mile and it is dead again. We hook up the tow ropes and off we go. We get to the rest stop about an hour out of Casper and have to pull over it is getting dark and the battery to the car has died. Ron is freezing and we can not see him anymore. We leave the car at the rest stop, take out the battery and head home.

I am so greatful that Ron and Jeannette were with me today. I am thankful for the time that they took to stay with me and help me through this. I am thankful that they are willing to come and get me in the morning so that we can go and finish our adventure.

I just want you Ron and Jeannette to know how much I appreciate you and how much I love you guys. Thank you!!! Thank you for being my friends, thank you for helping me, thank you for everything. Thank you Ron for having such a good attitude and a great sense of humor about our whole adventure.(we could have said some fun things while we were at dinner he he 2 women 5 kids?) You are a wonderful man. Thanks for putting up with me and my boys. :)