Showing posts with label Rodney and Baxter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rodney and Baxter. Show all posts

Sunday, April 11, 2010

180th Conference and Tender Mercies

We experienced some tender mercies last weekend as were able to attend the 180th Semi-Annual World Wide Conference for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
 We were in attendance at the Saturday and Sunday Morning Sessions, as well Steve and Christopher were also able to attend the Priesthood session. While the boys were away the girls were at play preparing Easter eggs, and sneeking preparations for a little Birthday Party for Steve.
 
And I shouldn't forget the fashion show.
We had great seats on the terrace level, a super cool parking spot, safe and guided travel. When we left Steve's sisters home on sunday morning a layer of icy rain was covering the ground. As we drove on the freeway we found closed roads, wrecked vehicles, police cars and tow trucks, which caused us to take a big detour out to the airport and back in on a different road. Yet we were safe and on time for our seats, with our parking spot still available.
Then we had another little miracle as Baxter dug a hole from under my girlfriend Marie's fence to check out her neigborhood. She treats my dog like her own and i felt so bad when she called so upset that she was unable to find him after looking for 3 hours. It was about 10:30pm and we were just getting gas outside of Pheonix when we recieved her call. We all got off the phone to have a prayer...as certain parts of talks ran through my mind....and 15 minutes later Marie called back to say she had heard him crying and scratching noise from inside her neigbors garage. He was found!!!
A testimony of God's love for us all...even little critters.
We were all so grateful for the blessings we had recieved.

Sunday, August 17, 2008

Rodney & Baxter






Many of you will remember how convinced we were that we would never have pets... but as you see here we gave in! Really now, Dogs are so polite. They are ALWAYS happy to see you, and the first to welcome you home from a long day. It will be 2 years at Thanksgiving since we brought Rodney home, and a year since we brought home Baxter so that Rodney would have a buddy to play with. They are like having potty trained babies that don't need a babysitter. They love to be held, snuggle when it is cold, go for walks and play. Some days this makes it hard to get the house work done and so it's my favorite excuse for slow house cleaning!