Caleb loves to sing.

Well, the kids do funny things all the time, but I usually forget to record them until its not a good time or I forget. So, I thought I would write this right now before I miss the chance.

Caleb loves to sing, he sings along with almost any song he can. On the way home for a family skating trip, we were listening to Hooty and the Blowfish song "Hold My Hand" (I think that's the name). Caleb started singing along except he modifies the chorus to "Hold My Hair" over and over.

Love You

HAPPY HOLIDAY

I can't belive that Christmas is almost here, about seven days-WOW!..I guess I better go get something for Mom.. The weather has been very cold for us who live in Washington County.. I know it isn't even close to Salt/Davis Co. or Colo..But it's still colder than I like.. but it is starting to warm up during the day and that is just fine with me and Mom.. I look forward to seeing everyone at Christmas time .or at least those who are coming this year.. Mom drove up to northern Ut. this past week end and took our truck up so she could take a thing we got for Christi and Chris.. She had clear roads for the trip on Friday.. but sunday when see and Jan went to attend the christmas program for the Spoken Word she spun out and took out a mail box and was very blessed to have missed a couple other thing that could have damaged the truck.. Bless Chet's heart he come to her rescue and help dig her out and took the truck back to their place while Jan and mom went on to Salt to the program.. They got there and back with some effort.. the storm was bad enough that Mom stayed until Monday before she started for home ... Just as she got off the freeway the truck started to give her problems with the transmission slipping etc..She called and told me about so I called the toyota shop and took it in tues morning the put it on the computer and found there is a chipped senser or sosmething like that.. so they made some adjustments for now and ccontacted the CO toyota tech to see how they want them to proceed.. I should find something out in the next couple of days[i hope].. Well it is late and I have to be up early so I can get to my 8am dentist appointment to have a new crown put on one of my back tooth.. I can hardly wait.. I love each of you all very much, may you all have the very special blessing from the Lord and the peace he offer us all... Love DAD

Monsoon

we got a taste of winter in AZ last night. We had a nasty wind storm roar in sometime around 9 or 10 last night and blew all morning. The power went out all night, and the rain was coming in sideways. It was as bad as the video feeds I've seen of tropical storms or Hurricanes. It was amazing! Trees were torn down all over, and stuff blown everywhere; with the power out we were afraid we were going to have to throw out a bunch of food from the fridge, but it still seemed to be cold when whe got up, so thank heaven for small blessings. Life on the base is interesting. I had my first experience with the national anthem today. Each day at 5 pm they play the national anthem after reveille, and all active duty personnel in uniform have to stop (if driving our outside) and stand at attention, and ALL traffic, military or otherwise has to stop as well. It was an amazing thing to stand there with my hand on my heart and feel as if the whole world had come to a stand still. Seems like we'd all appreciate this country more if we all did that during our day.
Love from AZ

Missing the fam!

SO this Thanksgiving we held at our house with all of Chet's family (those that could be here). I got to thinking, I really like spending time with my family! I don't mind Chet's family but there is certainly not nearly as much respect for other peoples things, time and space. Wow! I hope all of your thanksgivings went well and you all felt fat and sassy when it was over! I love you all!

Try Again

I had a new post all done and ready to post it when the system went down and I lost the whole thing... It was late so I did not re do another.. As most of you already know Dave and his family will be having Thanksgiving dinner with us and Stephen and his family.. I think the only thing better than that would be to have all the rest of you here with us... but I know that won't happen.. I hope everyone has a wonderful time in what ever you do and may we be greatful for all our blessing.... please remember the Lord, never give us more than we can handlle; all though some times it sure seems like it.. I was teasing Mom about taking Dave and his family out to the glitter hole while she was at work.. I know how much she likes to go out there with everyone.. She at first said that sound fun and then nothing else.. About 25 mins later she ask what the weather in the morning was going to be i told her I thought it was going to be warm, then she ask me if I couldn't take the kids for rides in the morning on the atv and wait until she got home from work before we took them out to the glitter hole.. So if we go to the glitter pit it will happen in the afternoon.. and that is just fine.. I love you all very much! you are in our prayers always.. may you all receive the special blessing you are seeking from the Lord, Love Dad

Plans certainly change

Well, in case you haven't heard, we will be coming out to Utah for Thanksgiving. We hadn't planned to, but Jennah's Grandma passed away last week and the funeral is Tuesday. Jennah's Dad was pretty insistent on having as many people there for the funeral as possible so Jennah and the kids are driving out tomorrow morning. Between school and work, I'm not going to make the funeral but rather than having Jennah rush back Wednesday so we could spend Thanksgiving together I'm going to fly out Wednesday evening and we will go down to St. George Thursday morning. Its just the way things work out sometimes. It'll be nice to see as many of you as possible. I wish I was going to have time in northern Utah to see you all, but my plane doesn't get in until after 8:00 so that would make any visit a bit late, especially with a drive the following morning.

Christi, I have thought about the whole idea of congratulations for callings, especially after everyone congratulated me at church today when I was sustained, and I've decided that for me it seems almost out of place. Congratulations almost implies that a person has accomplished something. I guess a person could argue that's true if someone is getting a calling. However, I think that now its time to accomplish something. Heaven knows I didn't accomplish anything that makes me feel ready to lead the young men. But, off we go and with Heaven's help all will go well. So, in short, congratulations aren't necessary but I could use all the prayers you can spare.

Caleb is really starting to show tremendous progress with speaking and comprehending what's going on around him. Its fun because its seems to be happening so suddenly. Oh, you know how I used to make all kinds of sound affects when I played games and with legos and such. Well, Caleb has taken up the torch and I think he has triple the number of sound affects is his repertoire than I ever imagined. I goes along well with his love of rockets, airplanes, and cars.

Signing of for now. Love you all.

Dave

Back on!

Sorry for the delay in posting. We have had our computer in storage and therefore didn't remember to get on and check things out. We are settled in to our small appartment as much as we can, considering its only for 3 months. Katie is going to her new school and for some reason has a block on remembering to follow her teacher out to the front to be picked up from school. She got lost once, and then if the sub teacher hand not have seen her go the wrong way, would have gotten lost a second time the next day. Needless to say, Jenn was pretty concerned.
Life working in the base has good and bad parts, as I'm sure Dave could attest. It is really cool helping out the brave men and women that serve our country. I think we are all looking forward to the day after boards. Life for us is somewhat of a quandary right now with things being so impermanent, and I think that we are all being effected by it somewhat. I just hope that the country is still in one piece by the time we graduate so I can find a job.
Anywho today we drove over to see the Mesa temple, and yesterday, we went hiking in White Tank reserve. Hope everyone is doing well. We look forward to being home for Thanksgiving and Christmas.