So the one other thing I failed to mention is the other lovely lady of note in the baby blessing pictures is our favorite Erica with a darn cute hat! It was fun to be with you all that evening!

So here we are with the rest of these beautiful baby pics, the proud parents, four generations with Grandmas Lynn and Julie and Grandpa and Grandma Shaw. Oh and Aunt Katie was back on those earlier shots.

So the Snow Geese, stop in Delta Utah to eat, on their way back to Alaska, after flying all those miles from "down south." My Sister Ann, Randy and I were up at the crack of dawn to see them before the hunters did, but everywhere we went it was "birds down!" Randy said he thought they looked like white garbage bags but Ann and I weren't so sure. They all looked like goners to us but after our breakfast burrito and nothing but slow moving fields of birds we came across a couple of out of town game wardens, there to help maintain the safety and peace of Delta what with all those orange vested hunters on the loose! They informed us that they (the hunters) hadn't been getting anything that morning because the wiley Snow Geese are so hard to shoot. When we asked about the field after field of dead geese we had been passing all morning they kindly told us, after a good LOL that those were white plastic garbage bags, (yes Randy!) which ARE the hunters DECOYS and that we'd have to delete all those pictures from our cameras we'd been taking earlier. We finally caught up with the live ones at the resevoir and there were over 1,000 beautiful white geese, honking their hearts out. It was a fun adventure and we'd recommend the hotel, the breakfast burrito and the local guide next February! I'm too tired out to tell you about the Tundra Swan adventure last week. Maybe Katie and Brandon or Kirk and Joy would be so kind! xoxo Randy and Joan

Birds and Babies

This winter has found Joan gone to the BIRDS! Here's a bunch who were enjoying left over apples and then hopped up on the shed to digest. Then we were thrilled to celebrate the new baby in the family, Bryan and Jess Davie's sweet Addison June. Here are some highlights of her baby blessing. And it looks like all the other pictures I pulled up of that are not here so maybe I'll have to go back and try and get them here. Maybe picassa only lets me do three at a time. Anyway, just in case they're here and I just can't see them, it was a beautiful evening at Bryan's Mom and Dad's home and it was a delight to be with them for that. And the last pictures you'll see will be the Snow Goose Festival in Delta Utah which was amazing and there will be some more 'splainin' to do about that!