Midwest Winter

It's cold outside. It was even colder this (January 16th) morning: -19 F. Yeah. That's COLD. And, not just for me! Travis couldn't even finish shoveling the sidewalks cuz his fingers got numb this morning.

There is at least 2 feet of snow in the unshoveled areas, and two to three times that in at the corners where we piled up the snow scooped from the sidewalk.

I don't know if we've reached Orem heights (see picture of Grandma and Grandpa Bailey's driveway below), but we are pretty close. I think we get the prize for coldest temps, tho'. With the windchill today, the temps were in the -30. Zoë's school was canceled, and we had to stay inside all day- except for taking Travis to/from work.

The cool thing? We saw an ice-rainbow this morning. I don't think I've ever seen that before, and it was quite spectacular! I also saw somebody throw some HOT water in the air and it immediately turned to snow/ice before it hit the ground! That was pretty cool, too.

Well, we're hoping we get a warming trend and can climb out of single digits. Maybe then we can play some in the snow. Hope you're staying warm! We're sure trying.