Mission Papers sent to Bishop

We finally got our mission papers off to the bishop. He will review them and send them to the Stake President. We put our availability date as May 1, but we don't know when we will actually be called--let alone where. The picture is our mission picture. It gives a true view of our size and shape.

Bambi Comes For a Visit

Noah and I found this deer hanging out by the clubhouse this afternoon. I guess it was lonely and needed someone to play with. Noah kept asking me if it was one of Santa's reindeer and told me that we can't go play outside or the deer will get us. I just had to laugh and tell him that he was right. At least it saved me a half hour of putting his snow clothes on and then having to take them off again because he needed to use the bathroom. Crazy kids!

He are some recent family pictures that I wanted to send out for our Christmas Cards that I didn't get to.  So we hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year. :)

Here is Sugar's baby boy.  Just one.  He is all over the place.  Loves to be out and playing with the big dogs. :)

Puppies all over the place

Here are Mitsie puppies.  They are 4 weeks old.  Four boys and one girl.  The girls are having a lot of fun with them.  They are starting to walk around, play and bark at each other. :)

Our intention was to have all of the kids in this shot with the snowman. However, Nathan felt strongly that the snowman needed a mouth, and in his zest to give him one he decapitated the snowman. Ainslee started crying and by the time we rebuilt the snowman's head (complete with mouth this time) Rylee, Nate and Carson had moved on to other fun snow activities. So here is Ainslee and our beloved snowman.

Ainslee has finally discovered that snow is not so bad...apparently it even tastes good!

Lower Falls in the winter

On Wednesday Mom and I went to Yellowstone and took the snowcoach to the Canyon area. It was a nice clear day--well most of the day and we traveled to the Upper and Lower Yellowstone falls. We thought it would be spectacular in the winter, but it wasn't. The snow covered the colorful walls of the canyon and half of the falls was frozen. We saw a few animals, but not as many as when you take the coach to Old Faithful. It also cost $10. more. We highly recommend the Old Faithful trip to anyone interested. But all in all we enjoyed the day and the sunshine.

Love, Dad

Mission Papers

We are working on mission papers. There must be 8-10 pages to fill out. They want to know all your medical history, prescriptions, date of birth, time of death, why you only want to serve 12 months instead of 18 or 23, where the body should be shipped etc. We hope to have everything ready to send in by early February. We just want to go somewhere warm in winter and cool in summer and where only English is spoken. We will keep you all informed.

Love, Mom and Dad