Merry Christmas!

Sarah's Birthday Photos

Finally I can end the monthly photography sessions. It is bittersweet to watch your children grow. Sarah didn't dig into this cake like I thought she would. There wasn't nearly enough frosting smearing going on. She just picked at the cake very daintily. That's just her personality.

Her One year old stats are:

Height 29 inches (45%)

Weight 18# (7%)

Head circ 46 cm (76%)

The big head comes from Wes.

Sarah is walking around. Her favorite game is SNAKE, that is where she gets a plastic snake, hisses and chases us around the house. Her vocabulary is mama, dada, dog, uh oh, ouch, that, and candy. She points to her head, arms, eyes, ears, nose (beeper), feet, hair, and bellybutton (giggle button).

Our Puppy Returns

This sweet little dog was lost for 11 days. The Saturday after Thanksgiving she was outside playing and chased after a kitty. About 6 pm we noticed she didn't come home for dinner. Wes began searching the fields around our house and driving all over Hyrum to find her. It is sad how you never know how much you love someone till she is gone. Wes continued this search for the next few days which included nagging all of the valley animal control officers and taking Mitch and Zeke (a Laborador and German Shepard) out to sniff her out, you would think that Mitch and Zeke being the type of dogs that are used in search and rescue missions would have some inborne instincsts but, they walked right past her. Well nearly a week later, after we had almost given up hope, Wes stopped by the Short Stop and bumped into his friend, Jason, who operates the pallet company near by. For whatever reason Tess heard either Wes' voice or his car and began barking. She continued this for over an hour, until Jason and the other workers began pulling logs off of the wood pile. As soon as she was free Tess took off for home, after eleven days of being trapped (she had tried to turn around in the wood pile and gotten stuck), she was back and we were delighted. She had a couple cuts that needed stitches, and besides being thirsty and considerably slimmer, she was just fine. We love you Tess and we appreciate everyone who prayed for her.