It's beginning to look like Christmas...

Tyler and Abby came over to stay with Grandma last night and wanted to
play Santa Claus so I cut some batting to make beards and grabbed some

red hats and I thought this was a very cute picture. They went around acting like Santa and asking what everyone wanted for Christmas. Even baby Kristoff got in his red hat.

We have a new baby at our house

We have a new baby named Kristoff and his new adopted parents staying with us for the
next couple weeks till the paper work is processed. They are some of our friends from
Md. that wanted a baby for a long time. They were temple workers back at the DC Temple and friends of ours. We are enjoying the new baby and watching his Mommy and
Daddy be first time parents which is such a blessing for them and us. I am definetly
ready for my new little grandbaby in March. I have been holding and feeding this
cute little one and am ready for Wendy's to come in March. Wendy was glad that I
am having this experience because I was a little shocked when she told me (excuse me, big time shocked) Newborns are so incredible you wonder how Heavenly father could create such a wonderful blessing for us.
For any who is interested in what he looks like. Here is his blog address:

http://www.kristoffalexander.com

You can choose....

As I was getting my lesson ready for primary I listened to a talk from BYU week that talked about your attitude. You can choose to get the most out of
your teaching or you can be miserable. You can choose to get the most out of sacrament meetings or you can choose to not listen and be bored. You can choose if you want to be happy or you can choose to be sad. The choice is what you make it in anything. This really got to me since two weeks ago I broke my ankle in Md. Had a Dr. call in Md. to tell me that my immunities were shot and I had to have those terribly expensive shots,and another to tell me I had a large mass on the left kidney and what hospital did I prefer to go too. I felt overwhelmed for the past several weeks with too much from DOCTORS. So I choose to get better and enjoy life. I choose to try to do the things I can and I choose not to let all these things overwhelm me. So if you see me driving with my left foot and not causing an accident it is because I choose not to sit and be miserable. Yes I did feel sorry for myself the past days but as he said you are what you choose. So I am going to do what the
dr.s say, play all the christmas music for the handbells and be a reader on the polar express. Watch my beautiful grandchildren when needed and choose to be happy.
WHAT IS YOUR CHOICE DO YOU CHOOSE TO BE THE BEST..........

DO NOT RIDE FOUR WHEELERS DURING HUNTING SEASON

John and I decided to go for a ride Saturday up in the Wasatch, Bad Idea unless you were wearing bright orange hunting gear. I wish I would have had a bright orange something so we would not get the look like you were invading the big hunters all in a row as we rode by them. They looked at us like get the heck out of here. When we got close to the bottom where we were parked. I saw tons of deer and yelled run for your lives. Some looked as if they knew what I was saying.We also saw some moose. Those deer are smart. Only the dumb ones get shot. They seem to know where to avoid.Sorry all you big hunters, but I am an animal lover and especially the deer.Deer meat is never going to get near me.....

I do understand if that is what guys like to do. Just give me a fishing pole.

Books,Books Books

I am trying this amazon book business and I feel up to my neck in books, so if you have been wondering where I am, I am usually at the computer, listing, mailing,posting books I got inspired by my niece in Md. to give it a try. If you would like you can take a look at my online store.
www.amazon.com/shops/moosetraxbooks

Lake Powell

The water was 77.1 and 240 deep

the red marks show how deep the fish are

and the circle fish are how many there are.

They also had big cat fish

John holding a few of the fish we caught behind him is the picture of the fish on the wall

We went to lake Powell last week and camped for 4 days at Glen Canyon
camp ground. They have the nicest camp ground except for showers. It is
very southwestern style.We are fishing fanatics so we spent a lot of days
fishing for the striped Bass. They are so much fun to catch. The yucky part is they like Anchovy fish which you cut in half and put on your hook.
They have this big stone wall near bullfrog marina called the Mokey Wall
and it is where we caught tons of fish and some cat fish too. The water temp. was 77 degrees. So many people were enjoying being in the water
except me because I looked at the fish finder and seen so many fish that
there was no way I was jumping in that water. I prefer the swimming pool where you can see what is under your feet.Any way on this big wall some
how there is this stone that is shaped like a fish and it is there that we caught all the fish. We had these guys that would pass us each day and see our string of fish out the back of the boat. The second day they begged us
to fish beside us so they could catch something. They were not having any
luck the past couple days so we let them and they caught some fish too....