Update on The Chickens

Well, Jeff gave in and bought this cute little chicken coop. I gave it a name this past week "The Cheyenne Social Club". Have you seen the movie? Well, lets just say this is "The Best Little Hen house"! If you haven't seen the movie it is definitely worth watching. It really has nothing to do with chickens, though.

These are my little chicks, they have grown alot over the past week. Brownee even likes them, at least she doesn't lick her chops like Dans cat did. All is well here. We are just waiting for the real spring to show up and we will plant the garden. I have also been bartering for services. I teach a girl in our ward cooking lessons (enough of that laughing), and she teaches me piano lessons. We had our second class today and it went really well. After awhile she is going to throw in voice lessons (okay now you can get up off the floor from laughing so hard!) It has been really fun to trade services. I encourage you all to try it.

Here chicky, chicky

This is my new little project. The pic is pretty small, but I will be taking new ones soon. These are my new little babies. Chicks! The ones in the upper corner are Rhode Island Reds, layers. And the little yellow ones I picked up today are Cornish Rock, meatbirds. The reds are approximately 10 days old and the yellow ones are maybe 2 days old. Over the next two months it will be interesting to see the difference in growth. Remember my chicks I had two years ago? They were the Cornish Rock. Well, lets just hope we don't get the bird flu, or we'll all be under quarantine and unable to travel! That would be sad.:(
Okay, now I have blogged so those of you who haven't for awhile it is now your turn. We sure love to see those blogs.

Lions & Tigers & Bears

Well, we went to Southern California this past week with my parents. We ate at some really great restaurants and walked on the beach every morning. Can't say the room was so great but at least we know where not to stay. I'll just say there was a bar twenty feet from our front door, it wasn't quiet at night and I didn't feel very safe. We did go to the San Diego Zoo one day and it was great.

We also went to the L.A. Temple the first day after arrival and it really set the tone for our trip. It was bee-you-tee-full. The Temple pix are of the Newport Beach Temple that I thought was a Jewish synagogue at first, but then I saw the Angel Moroni and thought that was weird another religion would use him on there church. At closer inspection, we drove into the parking lot, and spoke with a gentleman who said yes it is an LDS Temple and has been there for about 4 years. If we had known it was there we would have gone into that one, too. Oh well, so much to see and so little time.

Next trip is definitely out to Georgia to see that new little grandson, Garrett.

Love to all of you!

Viva Las Vegas!

We went on our annual January trip and had such a great time. We stayed a week in Vegas at the Wyndham Resort then went to Yuma to visit with Gramma Lois. It is great to get out of this cooooooold. I'm so glad Jeff does this for me so I can maintain my sanity during this time of year. Some of the following pix are from The Venetian & Harrahs. We didn't take any pix of Yuma. Hmmm, darn camera doesn't want to take those pictures itself :(. Wouldn't that be great if that could happen. How many times do we take the camera and never even get it out of its case. Oh Well.

This is Dan with some of his relatives that won big on roulette.

This last picture is of Dan with his new and very short lived pet. After he bought the chameleon he went back to school and found out he couldn't take it with him. So we took it back to the store. He did have fun with it while he was here. During our trip Dan was released on Medical leave from Job Corp for a problem with his shoulder. We haven't seen the Dr. yet so we'll keep you updated on what is going on with that. The good news from Job Corp was that Dan has six months to heal and can go right back when all is well. Hope to hear from all of you on your blogs soon. We definitely need more pictures of those grandkids and want to know what is going on with them! Love to all!!!!

More Pictures

Just a few more pix of our last week. It has snowed here over the past two weeks, like crazy. This snow picture is Christmas Eve and we have had lots more snow since then.

These pix sure were cute and I just had to place them on the blog, too. Happy New Year to all of you!

AHHH, Christmas is over

Just a few random pix of our family Christmas.

We sure enjoyed having Jeremy's family and Dan with us thru this Holiday season. Chris, Carina & Daisy came up to. Oh what fun it has been. Christmas with some of the kids!!! Nothing could be better. Hope to see you all over this coming year.

Happy Holidays

Drum Roll Please!!!!
The name drawn family gifts are finally drawn with exact, precise and confidential accuracy. Dad held the hat, Mom wrote the names and Dan pulled the names out of the hat, see how complex it all is. This is why it took so long to get it right. The names are as follows:
The Parents have- Jeremy's family
Bryce's family - Jakes fam
Lance's fam - Dan
Chris' fam - The parents
Jakes fam - Chris' fam
Jeremy's fam - Bryce's fam
Dan - Lances fam
Any questions? Oh yes, the price exacted this year (for those of you who responded to my email) decided $30 would be fine. Any further questions? No, Good. I would like all to have the gifts in the mail by the 5th of December so that everyone will have the family gift on time. Of course you may send earlier, but please not later. This worked out well last year and everyone got there gifts on time. Thank you so much. May YOU ALL have the most wonderfulest holiday season ever. We love you all and wish the very bestest to you!