The World Loves Winter.....

Today I think the temperature must have reached near 50 degrees. Not nice to tease me this way! I decided to walk up to Foothill drive today instead of the boring treadmill at the gym. It was such a nice day......felt like Spring already. It will probably snow 6 inches this weekend. The craziest thing happened while I was walking. Most of you know that we live in the Sugarhouse Park area which is pretty close to the base of the mountains so wild animal sighting is fairly common during the cold winter months. Anyway, Im walking down the hill toward home and all of sudden a deer jumps out of the trees at this house literally 2 feet in front of me. I thought I was going to drop dead of a heart attack. If the walk didnt get my heart rate up, this surely did. Holy Cow (or deer)! My first thought was it was a horse.....and then I thought a huge dog.....and then I realized it was a deer. I must have seen it coming from my peripheral vision because those thoughts all happened before it even jumped out. CRAZY! This car coming up the hill stopped of course because from his angle he saw it coming. He was laughing his rear end off at me so I must have looked pretty shocked. Seriously it was so wild!

Speaking of snow and winter, it must be a subject that is searched for a lot on the web. I have sitemeter on my blog which is pretty cool. It shows me the IP and city/state/country of the people coming to my blog. It also tells you how they came to find your page as well. Most of the time I get people from this area and friends/family from other parts of the country that I recognize. Lately though I have noticed an increase in the amount of foreign countries popping up. Also some random states in the US. All of them have one thing in common.....the way they found my page. Seems they are searching for the word "winter" at google.com and apparently some of my pic's that I have put on the blog showing our wonderful Salt Lake winter are pretty close to the front of the Google results. Pretty cool. I still find it strange though that out of all the pictures I post on this thing all of the foreigners come by way of Winter Wonderland.....

So, the kids are feeling better finally. Ian is still coughing but because he has asthma, its kindof something that takes a while to get rid of. His school sent him home Monday because his cough was pretty bad I guess. What do you though? If I kept the kids home everytime they had a cough, they would miss half of the school year. Anyway, were going to try it again tomorrow. I got some cough drops for him so maybe that will help. I better go finish my laundry.....argh! I hate laundry!