Herriman Fire

So last week We came home from church to find a smoky mess at our house. The fire started out on the other side of the mountain and then worked it's way towards Herriman. it was pretty crazy to watch. Once it came to the other side it was moving super fast it looked like hundreds of homes were being burned down. Ryan and I stayed up most of the night watching on our porch. It was so crazy watching ashes falling all over our house and neighborhood.



Now I have to preface my dramatic behavior, and give you some background in my defense. I didn't have any bags packed until I went out side and saw my neighbor across the street's WHOLE CAR loaded up, with there belongings, While our next door neighbor (who moved from California and has seen plenty of fires) told us he took all his important documents and was leaving. So I got a little stressed out and decided to throw all of our scrapbooks, home video's , patriarchal blessing's (I left my high school journal in hopes that it would burn) and other important documents in a basket. Then my plan was to grab all of our laundry basked (this was my genus idea, because of coarse I was WAY behind on laundry so I thought If I grabbed all of those we'd all have at least 2 weeks worth of clothing. ) and I put them all in a pile.

We stayed up most of the night and watched. I'm so glad the kids had fallen asleep before the fire got too big. Tyson is such a worrier he would have given him self a heart attack. It was actually kind-of fun, our porch had a really good view, so a lot of the neighbors came out and watched with us.

The next morning we woke to find that amazingly only 3 houses burned down. and the kids thought it was Christmas because school was canceled.

When all was said and done I had to laugh for packing everything, when I realized that THOUSANDS of homes would have had to burn down before the fire got to ours, but in the moment it felt like it could get to us. LUCKY FOR YOU WE ARE STILL ALIVE!!!!!