This one's for Alison

We know you've been laboring all these years with a
serious disadvantage. It's not easy being cute. All we had
to give was in our genes. But now you have finally broken
free and are headed off to the sunny Mexican Riviera, with
your sweetheart.

Have a great Cruise. Relax, soak up as much sun as you
can and make sure Ammon's worst nightmare doesn't
come true. There will be plenty of wonderful buffets.

Enjoy your trip and don't worry about your angels. They
will be in good hands. I promise.

Love you,

Your Daddy

"How's a Duck?"

Feeding Ducks with Micah and Annika

Simple things make for the biggest smiles.

Micah and Annika went with their Grandpa up to First Dam

to feed the ducks, and a good time was had by all.

Our Sweet Weekend

We had some sweeties come and stay with us for

the weekend. Sam, Melissa and, Emily were with

us for parts of a couple of days. They were joy for

us, and I think they enjoyed the time as well.

We have been blessed with some awesome grandkids.

Samuel, Melisa and Emily visit Grandma and

Grandpa!

Sam found the vacuum!

Samuel, ready for church on Sunday! Cute kid!

Now there's three cute kids!

Happy Birthday, Iris!!!!!

Happy Birthday, Iris.



February 12 is my sweethaeart's birthday. How
well I remember the first time I saw her. She was
sitting on the right side of the chapel in the Twin
Falls Fourth Ward. It was my first Sunday in
town. I was just about to begin my teaching career
and little did I know that it would be one of the
most fortunate days of my life. I still consider it
a miracle that someone who was born in Georgia,
so far away, and I, a shy country kid would come
together under such unique circumstnaces. The
years since then have been much happier for me,
and I hope she is happy too. We have lived through
a lot since then. Not all of it was easy, but we have
grown closer and closer as the years have gone by.
Our family is the joy of our lives. Our love for one
another becomes stronger and more precious with
each passing day, as does our love for our growing
family. I feel so blessed to have Iris as my wife and
eternal companion. I could not have chosen a
better person to be the mother of my children.
My goal in life is to live in such a way that we will
be together forever.
I LOVE YOU, IRIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I Go Out Walking

"If you keep going, you will never get stuck"


As most of you know I love a good long walk. Since we
retired and moved to Logan I have kind of settled into a
nice little routine, at least as for as walks are concerned.
Every day I leave home , walk up past the temple, down
the Boulevard, then up Canyon Road to the bridge at the
end of the reservoir by First Dam. I counted it off one
time and it's about 10,000 steps round trip. I figure it's
very close to six miles. I try to keep a pace of about one
mile every 15 minutes and when I come home, I'm
usually dripping sweat. Along the way I see lots of
interesting things and people. At the beginning I always
see the Temple, which means so very much to me. It's
astounding how beautiful it can be at different times of
the day and at different seasons of the year. It's a good way
to start my place to start my physical exercise, and then
at the end of the day to get my spiritual exercise.



On the other end of my walk I often see deer, and always

ducks and geese. They usually come by for a handout

no matter what the weather.

When I'm tired of walking and have a few minutes once in
while I still like exploring. The other night I decided to
Google Earth a little bit and retrace our hike of a few years
ago with Jason and Rene and their boys. It was fun to
reminisce. I came on this cool picture of Havasu Falls at
Night. I remember the place so well. Jason and the boys
went swimming here and we all had a great time. As always
I took a lot of pictures but none quite as cool as this one.
I'd love to hike down there again before my legs give right
out on me.