Fifth-grade zoo field trip

Fun cousin time!

Daddy-Daughter Date to General Conferene

EBear told me she wanted to go to general conference, so here we are

Finding joy in the journey

I came across this quote in a conference talk tonight and liked it's message. (It's almost conference time again!!!):

Opportunities come, and then they are gone. I believe that among the greatest lessons we are to learn in this short sojourn upon the earth are lessons that help us distinguish between what is important and what is not. I plead with you not to let those most important things pass you by as you plan for that illusive and nonexistent future when you will have time to do all that you want to do. Instead, find joy in the journey—now. (2008 October General Conference, Finding Joy in the Journey, Sun. Morning Session - Thomas S. Monson)

To Our Peeps

Shots from the Chicken Shoot

 
 I was having one of those very rare
good hair days.
Yeah, it's true.
I have one of those about every 5 years.
So I called Rachel,
our 17-year old
photographer extraordinaire:

She came right down and we did an

impromptu photo shoot with the chickens, mud, cold and snow:

 Fun, retro (and free!) photo treatments

done on Phixr.

I love these close-ups she did of the girls:

Those chickens are so personable.  :)
Hannah-the-Hen was pecking at my chest the whole time:


Speck loves me about as much as I love her:

 In front of the coop that Chris built:

EBear's genuine smile laugh:

 



What we really look like:




The girls and their pets:







This was supposed to be
our "serious pose:"
 
GBear has the posing down.
(I mean "modeling"):