Voiceless Virginia

Sad NEWS. Virginia has always had a rough sounding voice. She had tubes places in her ears Friday June 27, and while they were operating I had them check out the vocal chords. Bad news...they are the size of a 12 month old. They are not growing.

I asked what causes it. There are two things: the cartilage at the top of the trachea is not fully formed and the chords aren't stretching, or they'll have long term damage and if they don't grow with her, she will loose her voice eventually....

It is heart breaking. She needs a follow-up scope in July to determine what is going on. My only one that can have normal everyday conversation might not be able to speak at all. Just a little Ironic.

The latest family picture. Happy Birthday.

Virginia couldn't blow out the candels...silly Asthma.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY VIRGINIA GRACE!

The big 3 years old. She is sporting her new hair cut...thanks to Margaret. I did my best to fix the scalped spots and so forth. We made her a Kitty Kake!

Here is most of the crazy Master's group I spent 20 months with. They are all great people and I learned a lot. Say hi everyone...I miss the Tuesday nights. Truly I do.

Americana!!

Here is my Bathroom. It's all Americana! It is the bathroom most used, and I thought that I'd give it some character. I love it!

Here is another shot of the kid's bathroom

New Bathrooms

I went a little crazy on Sat and made over the two bathrooms. I am offically a Utah Mormon: I have vinyl lettering on my walls, and I blog. What else can you say?

Trip to Vernal UTAH

We love Venal! We had a blast at the KOA: swimming, ridding the coolest bikes, mini-golf (complete with it's own frustrations--clubs being thrown, balls being bitten--I've got enough giggles in my pocket of those images to last me for a year). We also had a pinata, card nights, porch swinging, short drives through history, long hikes through beautiful canyons, big swinging, finished the Spiderwick series, saw 2 different Dino museums, the Flaming Gorge Dam, fed trout at the bottom of the dam that were over 14 pounds, tried to go horse back ridding--got blown off with 60 mile per hour gusts, and finally made it back home. I would recommend it to anyone--especially the mini-golf. Garrett's Dino-island adventure was something to whole family enjoyed

Petrogliphs and Pictrogliphs

This was the last day of the adventure. We went on a hike about, one mile, to see if we could see the petrogliphs, but no luck...were were one the wrong trail. Do-Over! Ah, now we found the right spot. It was amazing to see all of the history carved into the rock...right in front of your eyes. These are estimated to be 8-9,ooo years old. SO COOL!

Hike to Dinosaur Footprints

We (Kellis, Garrett, Isaac, Margaret, Mom, G-pa, and Virginia), started our hike at the trail head and ventured into the Vernal/Morrison wilderness with one goal...to find the dinosaur footprints.

The tail was a winding twisting treasure hunt (you had to find little pink footprints to make sure you were on the trail) filled with lizards, ant hills, and snakes...or so the boys kept telling me. The trail was about a 3 mile round trip. Margaret walked without any complaint...unit the last 1/2 of mile.

We found one! Yep, one. The other 10 were buried underneath the lake...the water table had risen pretty high.
No worries! The Flitton's tossed 100 rocks into the lake to make up for it.
It was a great adventure!


Allosaurus was here!