In our grand family tradition of holding up the newest member of the church Christopher stands high above the crowd wishing he was still on the floor.

Lots of family came to his baptism along with friends and his primary teacher.

Thank You to everyone who drove down to see him.

We went to tour the Draper Temple on 24th. The boys thought the tour busses from the Stake Center to the Temple were cool. Matthew loved the baptismal font. He stood at the top of th steps looking at the water for a long time, very queitly. The volunteers behind probably thought he was in reverent reflection. I know however that he was calculating the punishment associated with taking a swim and whether or not the pros would outweigh the cons.

Danny received the Aaronic Priesthood on January 17th. He enjoys getting to pass the sacrament. He had quite the eventful first couple of weeks in his new position as a priesthood holder. In our ward full of old people an Aaronic Priesthood holder walks around with a microphone on fast Sunday for people to bear their testimony. While the line was empty he just started talking in the mic. to bear his testimony I was very proud. The next week he had to talk in sacrament meeting and did a great job. At his first YW/YM meeting he went to he accidentally stood up with the girls first instead of waiting for the boys to recite theme. His friends gave him crap about that one. He also got to go to the Logan Temple to do baptisms for the dead. My friend Linda had 27 boy names and Danny did them all for her. Craig was watching him. Craig said he was worried Danny might drown after 20 names. The guy doing the baptisms spoke really fast and Danny barely got a breath in between each dunk. He said he really loved doing it and we all went out to dinner afterwards.

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Here is our Christmas Eve party this year. Were actually missing alot of family, but we still had enough for a party. We all decorated Gingerbread houses in Grandpa Ferrins tradition. Uncle Dewayne read the Christmas story out of the Bible and we sang Christmas Carroll's while Tallen played the guitar. For the first year ever we gave up the cooking and cooked frozen lasagna. I think that was a great idea.

It snowed a little on Christmas day making the drive to Poky a little long but we drove Craigs 4 wheel drive and kept Lad and Krystal on the phone as we crossed the top of the Malad Pass. Lad lives on top of the pass and has two snowmobiles and a tractor so we knew he could rescue us. We were pushing snow with the front bumper in the middle of the freeway growing about 20mph with the 4 wheel drive on. The freeways were closed for awhile but we were already on it and they didn't makes us get off. I took a couple of hours but we made it to Pocatello for the annual gift exchange and dinner.

We saw a county snow plow stuck between the North and South bound lane at the crest of the summit on Christmas afternoon. The truck was buried above the windows. This isn't it I found this pic on the Internet and it doesn't do the story justice but it shows the size of the truck.

Craig and the boys playing with Chris' s new airplane in Grandmas back yard.

Moms house Christmas Afternoon when we got there and there was no place to park!