Winter Wonderland!

This is what I saw this morning, February 3rd, when I dropped the girls off at Red Mountain Ranch Elementary School.  A water pipe must have broken during the night.  Stinks for the school, but so cool for us to see.  I still can't believe that I got to see something like this here in the Mesa area.  There have been a couple days of hard freeze alerts around here.  That is unusual around here, especially for February. Last nights temps I believe were in the low 20's.  Now I know that I sound like the biggest wimp to some of you in other states, but 40 degrees for a high is REALLY cold for us especially since 2 days ago we were about up to 80 degrees.  I have decided that I absolutely hate my heat pump in my house because it just blows cold air all the time.  It is so cold outside that the heat pump isn't doing a great job of heating the house anymore.  Bummer. 

I know that the sidewalk looks like it is just wet in this picture, but it is all a sheet of ice across the sidewalk. 

So since this post is about weird weather here, I thought that I would post a few pictures of our snowstorm that we had on December 30th.  I can honestly say that I have never seen it snow here in Mesa before.  Good thing that the snowstorm wasn't very long because my kids are now wimps and didn't want to stay outside long . . . maybe that was because we were all outside playing in our flip-flops? 

Got to love how we are all outside with our flip-flops on! 

How I've Missed You!

The winter grass is finally coming in!  It is so nice to look outside and see beautiful green grass again! 

Guess What I Learned?

When my mom was here in February she taught me how to change out the electrical outlets and light switches.  A couple Saturdays ago Jared and I went to work at changing out the old cream covered outlets and switches to white.  We finished the family room and the kitchen.  Wow!  What a difference this tiny change has made in our house.  Thanks mom for teaching me this new skill.  Thanks Jared for being there for our Saturday project so that you could keep going to Home Depot for more supplies. 

Green Carpet

Just thought that we would share our beautiful grass in our backyard. This is the first time in our 10 years living in the Phoenix area, that we have had grass that looks this good. (Every October the grass goes dormant, so if you want grass in the winter you have to plant winter grass, which in turn dies off for the grass to grow back in spring.) We might have to go out and mow every once in awhile, but it sure beats shoveling snow!