A BELATED BIRTHDAY/MOTHER'S DAY GIFT & POST

I just realized that I never posted about this wonderful and beautiful belated Birthday/Mother's Day present that Daniel sent me. (Sorry Daniel!)

This is an Opihi shell and they are native of Hawaii. They start out covered in moss reef and build up. But as Daniel filed and sanded it, it became beautiful and shiny. Each Opihi shell is different, you can never make the same one twice.

Daniel wrote a note to send with it and it said; "I made it, so it was yours from the start just like I was your from the beginning of the plan of salvation.

Isn't it all just so beautiful! I cried and I still get tears in my eyes when I look at it. It means the world to me!

ZOO TIME

We decided to take advantage of the last of the good weather and go to the Zoo to see the new baby elephant. Little did we know that there were several other babies to see also.

The baby elephant was so cute. They had her and her mother in the back giving the mother a snack and a shower of water so we had to wait a few minutes. We took our seats near the fence so we would have a good view of the baby elephant when she came out. Soon we could see the shadow of the mother elephant making her way out to the yard and before the mother elephant could even get outside the baby elephant came running out ahead just like a toddler. She ran around playing with one of the balls and then sitting on some plastic thing and squishing it and then hitting the toys along the fence line. She was so adorable.

We also saw a baby monkey. The mother is black and white but the baby is just all white. It is the cutest fur. It was all curly like those really soft curly stuffed animals you see.

We also saw a baby giraffe. We all commented how small it was but then we looked over at the measurements on the wall and realized that even though it seemed small it was still 7 feet tall!
There were baby snow leopards which were hiding and some baby tigers pups which were up too high to get a picture of.


We had a wonderful time at the zoo and seeing all the animals. If you get a chance you have got to go see that cute baby elephant and all the other adorable babies that are there. It is so worth it.

FALL CONFERENCE -- BY THE FIRE

We had another great trip to the cabin this past weekend. It was such a beautiful drive with all the fall colors at their peak and the snow capping the mountain tops.

We went fishing Friday and Carter and Easton both caught big fish. Carter's was 21 inches and Easton's was 22 inches. They were both so excited about their fishes. Of course they had a little help in reeling them in especially since Easton broke his wrist Thursday morning when he was jumping on the couch and fell off.

My brother Todd and his cute wife Christine joined us on Friday night. We taught them how to play Settler's Of Catan because you can't go out to the cabin and not play a game of Settler's.

We enjoyed listening to all the wonderful sessions of Conference, eating, and going for walks. The walks were never long because it was icy cold, but it was so beautiful. Christine found a wonderful walking stick, it had a branch poking out the front so if you got to close or if you weren't walking fast enough it would prod you along!

One of Carter and Easton's favorite things to do was to take the dogs for walks. Griffin got so he would just look at me with the saddest eyes pleading for my help so he wouldn't have to go on one more walk with them. It was so cute to see them pulling these dogs everywhere.

As always we hated for it to end. But with the little bit of snow that we saw and that fell on Sunday, it made us excited for the snowmobiling season. We are ready to tune up the snowmobiles and get the winter gear out. This might be the last time we can drive into the cabin for the year! Where has this year gone?