Great way to end the break and start the semester.

For the week in between semesters Robert and I headed up to my parents house in Libby. While we were there we got to see Aaron and Kelsey who had just come back from Ecuador a week prior and we were able to see my brother Chris who was on leave from Iraq. What a nice break we had!! After Robert and I were all relaxed from our week long vacation in Montana this past week we were headed back to Rexburg to start another semester of school. And this is going to be a great semester because it is my last semester. I will be graduating in July (if I pass the last of my classes) and this summer I only have 7 credits to take. This will be a great summer! These were our thoughts as we were leaving the happiest place on Earth, Libby, MT.

On our trip home we stopped to take Grandpa Stevens out to breakfast at his favorite place, Cislo's. Then we stopped in Polson to see my aunt Wanda who gave me a sewing machine (thanks).

Then we headed home. Just 5 hours to go and we would be at home and getting ready for church the next day.

When we were leaving we had seen on the weather reports that there was going to be snow storms most of the way home. Because these storms were going to be lasting 3-4 days we left on Saturday instead of Sunday. We were driving along between Missoula and Butte Montana when the road all of the sudden became horrible. So, Robert slowed down and began to drive with caution.


(Here is a picture the next day of the bridge that we were on. Mile marker 174 of I-90)



I was beginning to get sleepy and was trying to rest in the passenger seat, but I was having a hard time falling asleep, partly because of the roads and us slipping a little here and there. We began to go on this bridge when a huge gust of wind came up pushed us from one lane on the freeway to the other. Robert was able to correct this and I was a little shaken by that, but just as we were recovering another gust of wind came and blew us in the same way. So, because of the first gust of wind Robert had slowed way down. The car then spun in a 360 in the middle of the freeway and then continued to spin another 2 full 360 both of these times hitting the passenger side guard rail. Our car is pretty messed up. We think it is totalled, but we are waiting to hear from the insurance company to confirm that.




Needless to say we are doing GREAT! Our cats, This and That are okay as well. You can see the road conditions that we were driving on. This was taken about 10 minutes after the accident. We called 911 and waited about 45 minutes for the highway patrol to show up. It was freezing outside and luckily I had my winter coat in the car. Robert however had his coat, but could not get to his beany. Ice was literally forming on his ears and hair! It was on the driver's side and it was too dangerous to get into the car from that side because the traffic was going fast and was steady. We felt it was too dangerous to be in the car because it was on the bridge and again the traffic was steady, we were concerned that another car might spin out and hit us and then we would might get injured. So, we braved the freezing weather and stood outside on the other side of the guard rail and here we felt a lot more safe.

Happy-Robert and Lois Day 2

So here's day two of our awesome getaway! After breakfast we went to the Logan temple. After that we went to change in our new room called Lost In Space. (And no we did not watch that stupid movie Lost in Space.) The paintings in the room were amazing! Some of the paint glowed in the dark. There were black lights that made some things look way cool.









The mirror represented some kinda worm hole. It was pretty fun!



I don't think Lois and I ever had as much fun in a bathroom as we did in the one in this room. It had cool launch pad lights and gauges to play with.








After a quick change we went to the Bluebird Restaurant-a 30's style restaurant with terrible service, but great food. It was a soda fountain, candy shop, restaurant and ice cream shop all in one! After that we went to find the Hardware Ranch to go on a sleigh ride through some beautiful country to see a huge herd of elk. It was about a 30 minute ride full of switchbacks like no other. It was a nice drive, but ended in disappointment because the place was closed. We made the drive back and just chilled for the rest of the night. We watched Titanic and went to bed.



Here's the Logan at night from space. (The room window.)



The next morning we had another delicious breakfast. We actually ate it in the jacuzzi just to say that we did.


We later went to the Bluebird again for lunch and free dessert for our anniversary and got great service and more great food. After lunch we went to the mall and then went home to Rexburg.

The End.

Happy-Robert and Lois!

These pictures are of where I took Lois to celebrate a bunch of celebrations we didn't get to celebrate on their proper dates due to school and work.

The celebrations took place from March 27 to March 29.


Lois had no idea what I had planned for the weekend. We went to Logan, Utah and stayed at the Anniversary Inn. It is a bed and breakfast with themed rooms. The picture is of Lois when we first got there and stayed in a room called Swiss Family Robinson. It is awesome.



Bathroom Sink and Mirror! Pump didn't actually pump water, but it was fun to pretend.






















Here are more pics of the room.

















Another suprise I got for Lois and I was a 30 minute professional massage in the room Thursday night!

After that we had a relaxing dip in the jacuzzi and got some of the best A&W for dinner and watched Swiss Family Robinson from the bed on the projector.

We slept the night away with stars twinkling in the ceiling as we listened to SoundScapes on satellite radio.









Here I am getting breakfast!



Pics of the Logan temple we went to on Friday.