Hair chop

Well I was going to give Leo a cute boys hair cut but my Dad started clipping while I was still wrapping the sheet around Leo and basicly butchared his hair and I unfortunately had to fix it. So it is really really short. My Mom litteraly had to hold back tears she was so sad to see his hair gone. Well I guess thats what i get when Im not specific about what lind of help I want. My bad.


But he is still my cute little boy. Like father like son I guess.

What are you eating?

Ice Cream? No. SNOW Cream!! And boy was it good. Guess thats the plus of it snowing for 26 hours straight and getting 14" of snow.

Ode to my little girl

4 years ago my precious little princess came into this world. It is amazing how fast kids grow up. There were a lot of pictures I could have posted of her when she was born but instead I'll just give you the address where they are. http://offenonline.com/momndad/
I am so glad to have my little girl in my life. She brings so many smiles to our family. She is always making me laugh. She is just so silly. So I did pick out a few select pictures.

I do beleive this was the first time in Hugh's adult life that he held an infant. It was really cute.

Happy birthday Katie. We love you.

A Time of Remembrance and Gratitude

This afternoon, I watched the funeral services for the late Gordon B. Hinckley on satellite TV at my local church building. The funeral was broadcast live from the Conference Center of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah. Hinckley had served as President of the Church since March 1995.

I had been baptized and joined the Church less than 3 months earlier. I don't even remember the previous president, President Howard W. Hunter - though I do remember his death. I "grew up" as a Latter-day Saint during the presidency of Gordon B. Hinckley. It was during his tenure that I was diagnosed with and overcame a life threatening illness (1995), that I served 2 years as a full-time missionary (1999-2001), that I married Shanna (2002), and that I began my military career (2007).

This reminds me of an earlier time in my life. I remember back when I was in Kindergarten we held a mock election for President of the United States. It was the incumbent Jimmy Carter versus Ronald Regan. Two people voted for Jimmy Carter, me and someone that wouldn't admit to it. Everyone else voted Regan. Regan was elected. (I was very young and didn't understand politics. I voted for Carter for the sole reason that he was the incumbent, therefore had more experience.)

Twelve years later, I was a senior in high school. The nation had gone through 8 years of Regan and 4 years of Bush leadership. In my mind at the time, it had been one 12 year administration with a few minor changes. Then Bush lost his re-election bid. It was the end of an era. I felt lost. I didn't know what was going to happen to our great country. I feared the worst. I feared change.

I don't have that fear now. The Church is in good hands. It is lead through revelation by the prophets of the Church.

Now is the time to remember the great service of our late leader, President Gordon B. Hinckley. Remember where he has lead us from from, reflect upon where we are today, and look forward in eagerness to a bright tomorrow.

P-A-R-T-Why? Cause I gotta!

Well Katies party was today and it was a lot of fun. 4 of her friends came and they had a lot of fun. I left out pictures of the other kids for privacy reasons. We did play pin the tail on the donkey, we had a pull string pinata, had cake and ice cream and then opened presents. Turned out really good. The kids had fun playing before and after the games. An hour party is perfect!

Katie only wanted the Dots from the pinata and there was only one box. The rest were tootsi rolls and flavored tootsi rolls.

May I present!!

Cinderella (Katie) and Princess Pheona(Leo)!!

Shoes and all.

Leo just loves to play dress up with Katie. They had a blast today.

White Out

Well we had a blizzard effects warning today from 9-9. The white out really started taking its course around 4:30pm. I could see more through the camera than I could without the camera. The tree is just on the other side of the fence and I could not see it at all. There is also a big workshope off to the right that is compleatly dissapeared. It has been interesting to watch.