Fishing

We went fishing at Pelican Lake on Memorial Day and had a blast catching bluegill. I got bored and put on a spinner and hooked a bass.

Update in photos

 Fishing with Grandpa, picture by Grandma

 Mama cat and kittens, the kids (and I) are having fun with them.

 After 5 years in our house, sod in the backyard finally.

 Amelia with the flowers at Temple Square.

 Derek and Nathan scoping out a tarantula at the National History Museum.

 Austin holding a hissing cockroach at the Natural History Museum, kicking myself for not getting pictures with Grandma and Grandpa Yeager!

 Lily and Amber at Temple Square.

 Sivai turning 9

 Completely Jazz obsessed.

 Sivai, Ari, Austin, and Lily at Temple Square  (we were there 2x in one week)

 Our good friend from Samoa, Vale Tagaloa, came to UT for her mission. We were lucky enough to spend half a day with her. Samoans out number palagi's in this picture, Ari was adopted at the same time as Sivai and I met her parents when we were all in Samoa.

Levi and Amelia, a couple of days before the poor guy ended up in the hospital.

I've been so busy working lately that I haven't blogged. Nothing major has been going on, just little things. Austin won then writing competition for Reflections at school, he is actually homeschooled now. Sivai reads and reads and reads. Lily is finally getting along and playing with Amelia. Amelia is starting to talk, but it's mostly jibber-jabber with a couple of words thrown in. We still talk about Samoa, nearly every day, and I often wonder what everyone is doing there. This is a picture of Sivai's birth sister, Sauilau. She was so shy when we met her, but we enjoyed her company and getting to know her. I can't believe it's been nearly a year since we were in Samoa, in some ways it seems like we were just there, in other ways it seems like a lifetime ago.

We've been busy around here, but always time for a little fun.

What's your resolution?

Christmas in Pictures

Dad

My Dad was in a horrible farm accident today, a 20,000 pound feed truck rolled over his chest. It crushed his cell phone that was in his shirt pocket into oblivion. He got up, drove his car 1/4 mile and crawled into the office where my Mom and sister were. They drove him to the hospital where they x-rayed and ran scans. Nothing broken, nothing displaced, just battered and bruised. It was a true miracle, when I heard what happened I thought he wouldn't make it but like I told my kids, God protected him, and all of our prayers help to heal him.