We love getting little "love notes....."  

 A New Year's day trip to the zoo....Perhaps a little chilly, but fun none the less...

 Carrie's family "New Year's Tree...."

 Nat and Jared had a fun night out....

 Burr....Cold Winter Weather.

 Gilbert Temple visit....

 McKinley thinks Haylee is so funny...can't help but giggle...

 Jared made the mistake of telling the little girls he would pay them to pick up the acorns that fall off their tree in the front yard....They met the challenge ---BIG TIME....

 We were so happy to make a short trip to Utah to see the Mosley's  ....

Reese and Mylee enjoy a swim at the motel.

 Took a little trip to the Sporting Goods Store....

 Doing some exploring...

 Yep, this would be real nice....

 This little deer is just wondering around the neighborhood.  We watched it for a long time.

 Reese, Cam, and Mylee....

 We went for a little hike and saw these pretty little birds...We spent quite a bit of time researching what kind they are...Right in the neighborhood.

 The mountains in Utah are so pretty.

 On the way home, we caught a little glimps of the Payson, Utah Temple.  Gorgeous!

 Stopped in St. George for the night and went for a walk around the Temple.  So Pretty!

Mountain view on the drive home from St. George.

Oh, boy....here comes the truck to take away the storage container.  Some of the young men from the Ward came and worked for us for a day, and we moved everything into the house.  We were quite worried about our food storage items freezing and were so relieved to have it safe and sound again in the storage room....YEA!

Loading the container on to the trailer...

GOOD BYE!  - (sorry, but we sure hope to not ever need one of these again...)

Trimming the apple trees...

Ellie checking out the new cabinetry...

McKinley checking out the fish...

Sweet Haylee...

Working on getting up the stairs...(check out that calculator...always a fun play thing..)

Making friends with Elliott...

More trimming trees...

Bundled up for a ride on the wheelers...

You "big bad boy", Elliott..

Haylee's birthday - 5 years old....February 3rd.

Oh, well...here's blue fish....one fish and two fish "layed down..."

Spring always means new little calves...this one sure is a cutie...

Cam was keeping his eyes open on the walk home from school...(Funny - Grandpa and Uncle Jared tromped the hills for a couple of days and didn't find anything like this....)

Another one...

A little afternoon fun in the back yard...love the chalk drawings on the block wall.

Cute bunnie and cute Jade...

Pretty Naia found a little friend in Aunt Nat's back yard.

Ellie and McKinley...

Tyanne, McKinley and Jade...

Trinley...

On Tuesday we went down to pick up some trim for the pantry cabinet in the kitchen and finish up the paper work with Donnie for the insurance company.  Donnie has quite a little "zoo" of pheasants in his yard.  This one is so pretty - "golden pheasant."  They are a very "pleasant" bird.  Grandpa says there used to be quite a few in Shumway - hope they can be re-introduced here again soon.  

 At lunch time we meet Aunt Natalie and the little girls at the mall for lunch.  Neither one of them was particularly interest in becoming friends with the "eat more chicken" cow.... Haylee...

McKinley - nothin' doin'   ....

 McKinley getting a ride on Grandpa's shoulders....she loved it!

 Coming home the fog was quite thick in the Canyon...A little snow about 20 miles south of Show Low and the streets in town were "ugly" but not much snow here.....

 Near Forest Dale.....

 I have to laugh....Uncle Mike takes great photos of deer in their yard....We take bad photos of cows in ours.....hee hee....

 Trim around of pantry cabinet....so pretty....

 Dining room table.....Grandpa finally gets  a  BIG one....

 Can we get this through the door?

 Yep....and the chairs too.  (Ella was taking photos - 65 of them...)

 Blurry - getting a little dust off.

 Uncle Dave getting his new gun sited-in.

 Not much for us to do but play with the phone....

 Ella gets a lesson in safety and then a shot.

 Naia did not want to shoot, but she was brave and closed her eyes, turned her head and took a shot!

 Jade get to take a turn....

 Aunt Michon was too thrilled either....

 Grandpa gets a bulls-eye....

 So pleased----two more chairs coming in a couple of weeks...

We are so thankful to have our home back together again.  Our hearts really are here!  What a blessing to have had good insurance and Grandpa to build, fix and repair everything!  We are so blessed!   Daughters, Sons in law, and our fabulous Grands and our Home! We are so BLESSED!