Our little singer

How pleased we are with our little Danica. Our ward had their Primary Program today and Danica was asked to sing a solo part for one of the songs. Unfortunately I don't have any kind of simple recording device that we could get an audio recording of it, but she did fantastic. She didn't look nervous at all. She just got up there and when it was her turn she sang the perfect volume and clearly so everyone could understand. She is so amazing. I had a hard enough time getting up and singing with a group when I was in high school. I dont' think I am brave enough even now to sing a solo.
What an amazing little girl we have been blessed with. I learn so much from her everyday. Her spirit is so much more developed at this little age than I feel mine is now. She has a great work for her in the future I can just tell.

The Lord teaches us in many ways

Well, Dave's job officially ends on Tuesday. We still don't have another job (at least not until the end of November, and that's our fallback plan) So, as we have been contemplating what we are going to do and both of us have been praying all we've been getting is that it's going to be okay.

Which is good to know, but both Dave and I are planners - we like to have a plan to know what we need to do, and the not knowing makes it hard to plan. So, as I was praying yesterday I was a bit uneased that none of the the things I was praying for felt right. So I changed what I was asking and discovered that I am not supposed to know. That right now I just need to trust and not know. Do you know how hard that is for me!!!

But I am doing my best. We are going to stay here in Arco until who knows, and trust that everything will be okay. We will just keep doing what we are doing and wait as patiently as possible and try to listen to the Spirit. Hopefully this is one of the last things that we are supposed to learn from all this moving around.
Thanks to all of you for your support and prayers . We love you.

Human Pin Cushion

I can't wait until this baby makes it's debut. For someone who used to have a severe fear of needles I think this baby is trying to cure that.
For some reason with this pregnancy all my veins went into hiding. (well, they've never been very willing to show themselves to a needle) Hopefully I'm done being a pin cushion until this baby comes out. All in all I have been poked 14 times in the last three months.
Yikes - I'm not sure where this lovely trait comes from but I hope my children don't get it.

Yellowstone final part

We hiked to this beautiful lake that seem a bit out of place in Yellowstone, but then Yellowstone is so big it's probaly just part I've never been to before.

The girls enjoyed taking a break and throwing rocks into the lake. On the way up we missed one of the switchbacks and ended up going straight up the mountain. What a trooper Dave is as once again he ended up carrying both girls. And of course I couldn't miss this great photo op by the river.


We drove around the park looking for wildlife after our hike and we were lucky enough to see this grizzly bear eating a bison. I know it's hard to see but just take my word for it.

We also saw several coyotes, a family of bison and two black bears. Unfortunately the other pictures didn't turn out well because it was dusk. Oh well. Dave was glad to see all the wildlife, but he still wants to see a wolf.

More camping fun



The Mammoth Hot Springs used to be very colorful, but now they are mostly dried up but the formations they made are still fun to look at. What do you see?

And again - Dave carrying both girls. What a great daddy. I promise our girls did do alot of hiking themselves too.

After such a great vacation we decided the girls should have something to remember it by (besides just pictures). Whitney picked out a grizzly bear and Danica picked out a wolf. They played with them almost the whole way home.

Whitney named hers cuddley bear and Danica named hers Giselle.
Danica took hers to school today for show and tell so it must have been a great trip for her.
I have some fun quotes from them that I will post later.

Yellowstone part 2

We spent the next day hiking around geyser basins and this is what Whitney and Danica thought of it. They also decided that they both had to ride on daddy. So Danica leaned back and picked up Whitney. What funny kids.

Family pic in front of Old Faithful as it is dying down. The girls loved this one and when it was going off they were smiling and clapping for it. It was great.

Whitney got cold so she decided to crawl up inside my sweatshirt while I was still in it. What a great way to roast marshmallows.