Long time no see!

It has been forever since my last post, where does the time go. We are very busy, Kathy Jo is working on her Phd. and I am busy with work and my calling as Stake President. Kathy Jo is currently in Texas to a conference that BYU-I sent her to, and I am in the middle of Ward Conferences. The winter here has a been a long one, lots of snow and cold, i will be grateful to see spring come. This week end we got to have Travis stay at our house overnight while his parents enjoyed some time away, we had a great time, he is really a good little boy and lots of fun. Enjoy the pictures.

Been to long, since our last post, where does the time go? Summer has been slow in coming this year, but the advantage is that the tulips lasted a long time, and in spite of it all the garden is doing well. Included are some picture of birds which are visiting our house last week and of a visit from Ben Erin and Travis. Grand children are so much fun!

Been a long time since I posted anything! A sad happening in our family as the family dog Baden passed away last week. He was a great dog and we miss him. A faulty heart and resulting kidney failure lead to his death. A few pictures to remember him by.

Smokey the cat decided to help me write a letter to Josh, she kept swatting the pen, and laying on the paper.

November 22 winter has arrived.

We had a little Devil named Travis visit us at Halloween Isn't he cute!

long time since

It has been a long time since I last posted anything. Josh is doing great in Chili, he arrived there around the 24 of August. He has a Chilean companion. The language is slowly coming.

On Sept 24, I caught a big German brown on the river about 2 miles upstream from the house, We took its picture with a cell phone camera and turned it loose, we estimate it to have been about 12-14 pounds. Great Fun! Kathy and I are both very busy lots of meetings, school work and such. Seems like there is not enough time to do everything that needs to be done. Have had a beautiful crop of sunflowers this year, I use this picture as a screen saver.

I must mention the thousands of Lady Bugs that we have had at our home this year I take pictures of them and send them to Cornell University who is conducting a research project on kinds and distribution. In August Kathy Jo and I went with the youth from our stake to Martins Cove, it was a wonderful experience to spend the time with the youth of our stake. We pulled handcarts for 14 miles one day and it really brought home in a small way the difficulty the saints had in getting across the plains and the great faith they had.

LDS Realationships Conference @ Philmont

We Dropped off Josh at the MTC in Prove on June 24, It was an exciting time for all of us and also a sad time seeing our youngest off on a mission we are now officially empty nesters!

Philmont was an awesome experience, we learned so much about the Aaronic priesthood and scouting, the spirit was strong there and my testimony was strengthened. It was great to be able to spend time with Kathy Jo, She is a wonderful wife. Enjoy the pictures. We were able to stop off in some of the small towns where Kathy's ancestors were from the one headstone is Kathy's great grandmother, it was lots of fun tramping around southern Utah.

Roasting Marshmellows over the fire were very good. We finally had to put them away or Katelyn may have eaten the whole bag.
Cameron loved being outside playing on the lawn and watching his Dad, Mother and Grandpa fish.

Katelyn finally got her bike we got her for christmas. We put it together. She then had lots of fun riding it.

It has been really nice having family around this week!

We were excited to see Ben and Erin's new Baby boy, what a beautiful baby! So glad that mother and baby are both doing well. We all got to hold him, and watch as Ben changed his diaper. (He needs practice) I will leave all the details to Ben and Erin on their blog. Enjoy the pictures.

It has been an interesting week here. It marks the 4th week in a row we have not run the warehouse. I am going a little crazy! The bright side is I got to go with one of the guys to Palisades Resivoir fishing and it was awesome i caught more and bigger fish than I have in a long time, GREAT FUN! Yesterday Kathy and I went on a short hike out in the Lava's south and west of Idaho Falls, it was fun, but rugged. I am including pictures of that event and some of the creatures that were at our place the last couple of days. Enjoy!

Some pictures of Josh opening up his mission call to Orsorno, Chili. It is very exciting for us to see him serve a mission.

Yesterday I got to fish off my lawn and caught two nice Brown trout and a large Whitefish. As you can see the water is high. Also a picture of Sister Stacey Huffaker When she returned from her mission, and a Picture of Springtime in the Rockies.

Behold the voles artwork.

The dead grass is now removed, the lawn has been fertilized and watered. Now we wait and see what will happen.

The day after spring cleaning

Winter is upon us again. High winds and snow. It is nice to have a warm home to stay in.

Spring Cleaning

This is Josh standing behind all the grass he raked off the lawn Saturday, March 29. Rulan lost count of how many loads of grass were dumped. The voles really chewed up our lawn this year - Rulan is out for revenge (many have already met their demise).

DUCKS

This is a great picture! The nieghbors we feeding them and I snapped off a few pictures of them.