Frozen Lake

It's stinkin' freezing out there!!  Utah Lake has got to be frozen thick.

After church, we (those who wanted to) drove a few minutes to check out the lake.  It's so frozen you can see people had brought their 4 wheelers onto the ice.  Some other people had shoveled an area and were ice skating and playing a hockey game.  I think we are good to run and jump on the lake.

         

Sunday Shoes

Look Familiar?  Enough said...

Ammon loves tying his shoes.  Not just one knot, but many many knots.  Pretty funny...

Pepper Play Time

Brady was ready for another play date.  Pepper is the Nielson's puppy (a neighbor).  He's about 3 months older then Brady.  Pepper is also a golden doodle, but mixed with a mini poodle, so he will be smaller then Brady.  Right now they are perfect size.  Although these pictures don't show it much, there was a lot of excitement.  I didn't remember my camera until they were more calm.

            

We are learning a lot about Brady and just dogs in general.  Sara Dean, a neighbor who trains dogs, has been helping us out.  We trade favors.  She's taught us how dogs need to be socialized with all kinds of dogs of all breeds and sizes and ages.  Being a puppy, he's not too appealing to older dogs, but he's doing well.  I can't stress this process enough how important it is to socialize pupppies.  This is one area we failed Charlie, our first dog.  They learn so much from other dogs, whether it's  manners, behavior or just knowing they are a dog and not a human.  It's been a fun process.

Happy New Year!!

To ring in the New Year we headed over to the Strong's house.   We even brought little buddy, Brady.  He got to meet Copper for the first time.  His first real play date.  Copper was good with the playtime, but it wore out the little puppy.  Two golden doodles...

And a litle football while refereeing the boys...

While there we had pizza, played games and hung out.

Later, we swam at the neighbors heated pool.  The Strong's were house sitting and it was pretty cool for the kids to swim in steamy, warm water.  Yep, that is snow on the edges of the pool.  It was so cold, that when we pulled a toy out of the water, within a minute it had a layer of ice on it.

Ammon trying out the diving board.

Because it was so cold, once they were done we wrapped them up and warmed up inside.  They played a few games and had fun together.

Back at the house...

Brady had found a way into the playhouse and this is what we found...

Jarom attracts the little ones, they just love him!

Warren and Lexi

Happy New Year!!  

Always wishing the Best for everyone.  Hoping for progress and achievement to allows us to be better then yesterday.