I feel so loved.

My son, Adam, who will be 12 at the end of August drew this picture for me. He knows how much I love pictures of Christ and this is one of my favorite paintings. He is now working on drawing the Salt Lake temple for me. I feel so loved.
It is wonderful to watch his progress in this area. He started out drawing Japanese animation and just recently decided to work on more life like drawings. I think it is pretty cool. He is also working on a picture of Mitt Romney for his dad. :)

BIG Squirrels!

The squirrels in Michigan have always amazed me, they are so huge. Being from Utah wildlife seems to be much smaller there. When we first moved to Michigan Adam saw a squirrel and thought it was a beaver, we all had a good laugh. We all love to watch the squirrels chase each other around the yard, jump tree to tree--never missing their target, and run effortlessly across the power lines. The squirrels have given us countless hours of entertainment.

Kids and Ducklings

We had a garage sale last Saturday and Adam found and caught a cute little duckling wattling close to our house. It was so cute and all the kids wanted to keep it but we couldn't because we are hopefully moving to Miami soon.
I felt some anxiety because I have heard some birds will not accept their baby if it has a humans sent on it so I felt very concerned about this baby duck because my kids had held it for a couple hours. Jennifer being the wonderful researcher she is got on the Internet and researched all we needed to know about ducklings. She found out the mother would take her baby back with no problems so Jennifer, Adam, and Rachel went to a pond, near our house, where there are quite a few ducks and their babies and let it go. They all had to check on the baby a couple times but were soon comforted enough to stay home.