Mom's 75th Birthday

Tuesday was my mom's 75th birthday.  After work, Lamar and I took her to see her good friend, Maria who had recently fallen and broke several bones.  She has been at a care center healing and getting therapy for her recovery.  This facility is across Portland up on Capital Hwy., so we decided it would be a good time to go and let Lamar do some of his gift card shopping at Bridgeport Village which is a few miles away from there.  After visiting a little bit with Abe and Maria, Lamar and I left mom to do some more visiting.  While we were looking for parking at BV, we noticed the first snowflakes come falling down....slowly...slowly.  We thought, oh look...it's snowing! How pretty.  By the time we got out of the store (which really wasn't very long...maybe 15 minutes), the ground was white with a fresh coat of very wet and slushy snow.  Hmmmm.  Then, as fast as it started, it stopped.  OK... it's turning into rain, so we may as well eat a bite.  A half hour passes.  What a difference a half hour makes!  We could barely walk on the sidewalks, they were so slick and the traffic was already pouring out of the mall.  Yes, the rain turned back into snow and it was coming down fast and hard!  We'd better go pick up mom!  So, we started our journey...our long  journey back to get her and then on home.  We barely made it up the hill that the care center was on.  Coming down was fun too!  We actually slid down the hill, coming to rest against a curb between a telephone pole and a fire hydrant.  Thank you, God, for sparing us damage to the car...or worse...us!  It was a very slow go home.  I'm guessing from there it's probably 35 miles maybe. It took us 2 1/2 hours to get home.  There were cars in the ditches and cars abandoned along the roads and highways.  This was a surprise storm for the Portland area and it was a very fast storm too!  We were glad to finally make it home.  Although, we dropped mom off at her house instead of going to our house for her birthday party.  She wanted to stay home and relax.  At least, that's what she said at the time.  I think she regretted later being alone that evening for her birthday because we heard about it several times over the next day! :-)

But,one thing she did do before we left her that evening...she made herself a 75th birthday snow angel!

I'm afraid the picture isn't that great because it's off my phone.  Didn't have my camera with me since we didn't know it  was going to snow!

The next morning, Lamar drove me to work.  His car has studded snow tires...mine doesn't.  It was a beautiful drive.  Reminiscent of last year's snow storm, but not nearly the anount of snow.  Lamar happens to be off this week and boy is he glad!

So, we decided last minute to have a birthday party for my mom at her house, since our drive wasn't very driveable even after a day.  We had a few more inches of  snow at our place and it was pretty slickery.  Lori and her family and Lamar, Brittany and I had a nice time celebrating  mom's 75 years and she was happy that she could have her little party after all.