`Christmas Party Adventure

Last Saturday morning our Ward held their Christmas Party. It was a breakfast up Millcreek Canyon at Camp Tracy (a boy scout camp). The lodge there is big and the Christmas decorations were just beautiful. There was a huge fireplace and on both sides of the fireplace big glass windows where you could look out and watch the snow coming down. It really was picture perfect like a scene out of the movie "White Christmas". The food was wonderful! The short program nice and then Santa even showed up! It was such a fun party! We had invited our next door neighbors who are not members of our church. Our daughter April's family also wanted to attend so they had followed us up to the party. When the party was over and we left is when things got interesting. It was snowing so hard the roads were very slippery. We were going slow and our son in law was following us down. Cars were in trouble all over the place, sliding here and there. Kim didn't want to get to close to them so he braked to slow down a little more. That was a mistake. We slid out of control and did a 360 spin sliding almost to the edge of the road that had a pretty steep drop off down into the river. I was praying hard! We stopped before plunging over the edge. Can I tell you how grateful I was for that! Our son in law slid into us and ended up hitting us. Thankfully there was not to much damage to either car. Kim told our son in law to continue down the canyon as carefully as he could. We waited about 15 minutes until there were no cars coming then Kim tried to maneuver out of the position we were in. He couldn't go forward but he could go back wards and we started sliding again- it was scary sliding down the road backwards. Finally the car turned sideways and we were siding down sideways. He was eventually able to get turned the right direction and we continued home very slowly. I am happy to report we made it home safely after that and our neighbors who I was afraid were feeling sorry they'd come with us just laughed as we dropped them off and said "We thought we were just having breakfast we didn't know we were going to have an adventure! The picture below is of Brianna and Eliza with Santa. Yes Brianna isn't very happy about it.
Grandma with her baby girls.