{"id":1154,"date":"2010-05-05T10:34:52","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T17:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/x.jimanddoni.com\/?p=1154"},"modified":"2010-05-05T10:34:52","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T17:34:52","slug":"summer-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/?p=1154","title":{"rendered":"Summer Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So for the last five days, Jim and I and the kids have been up north camping in the Strawberry Wilderness area.?? We had so much fun as a family &#8211; much needed quiet time for our little crew.?? No tv, xbox, phones, computers&#8230;.aaaaahhhhhhh!?? Nice.?? We borrowed Papa and Sweetie&#8217;s RV to make our trip easier and good darn thing we did because&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Camping_0162.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"434\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Things started out fine.?? Daddy was unpacking, mommy was sorting and shooting, kids were wandering.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Camping_0163.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"434\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Camping_0170.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"675\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Camping_0159.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"676\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We then decided to play some baseball and low and behold&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Camping_0237.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"434\" \/><\/p>\n<p>it began to snow&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Camping_0214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"434\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Camping_0210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"434\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Camping_0227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"434\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Camping_0181.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"434\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and it snowed<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Camping_0241.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"434\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and snowed<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Camping_0244.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"434\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Camping_0248.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Camping_0256.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"434\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Camping_0277.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"434\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Camping_0278.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"434\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Camping_0282.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And this picture below for GFF folk &#8211; a huge tree fell blocking the entrance to our usual Strawberry Family Camp site &#8211; crazy huh??? We found another great family camp site though.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Camping_0275.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"434\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The snow stuck through the night on Thursday and we woke to find patches still on the ground Friday.?? It snowed off and on through Sunday but only stuck a bit after Thursday.?? Sun came out on Monday.?? Fun family memory!?? We never get snow in Phoenix so it was quite an experience for our kids.?? AZ is a cool state though because it has such a variety of aesthetics.???? Strawberry is about 2 hours from where we live.?? We were toasty warm at night in the heated trailer but daytime temps were getting as low as 27 degrees.?? I am a good packer though so we had everything we needed short of mittens.?? I ended up putting Ty&#8217;s socks on Tori&#8217;s hands.?? Whatever works right??? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Like summer snow&#8230;you were an unexpected site&#8230;.(I was humming this old Keith Green song for five days.?? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So for the last five days, Jim and I and the kids have been up north camping in the Strawberry Wilderness area.?? We had so much fun as a family &#8211; much needed quiet time for our little crew.?? No tv, xbox, phones, computers&#8230;.aaaaahhhhhhh!?? Nice.?? We borrowed Papa and Sweetie&#8217;s RV to make our trip [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mamas-diaries"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}