PUPPIES

Dillie Finally had her Puppies! After nearly a week of sleepless nights, Sunday was the day. She ended with 6 total. 3 Boys 3 Girls, we thought she was done after 4 because she had those 4 puppies in two hours and then went about 5 hours without anything else. After Church we took her to the Vet to get an injection which stimulates Uterine Contractions and flushes everything out; well two more puppies came out with everything else.
Rob saved one, it wasn't breathing and we still don't know where the Sac or the afterbirth went, she just came out, Dill must have been quick on that one, but Rob rubbed her belly and shook her a bit and out came a bunch of Gross stuff, and now she is fine.
They are adorable and loud; actually they sound like ats right now. Dill is a little overwhelmed but being a very good mommy. So if there is anyone out there who is interested in a Christmas Puppy let us know, they go fast.

And keep checking back for updated pics because they just keep getting more and more adorable!

Puppies!!!

We will be having some puppies soon, just in time to sell for Christmas!!!! The kids came over the other night to see just how big Dillie is getting, which for her is huge, I think she is even beating Sarah out!! Sage has volunteered to help deliver the pups and I just might take her up on that she has done such a great job babysitting (thanks Bridget) them in the past I know I can count on her. There are some pictures below, some of which Bailee is screaming in, and in case your wondering why she was yelling at Joshie for standing too close to her! Then there are pics of Deva who is our adopted dog for the time being, she is beautiful and a lot of fun, and bailee is in love with her. She told me that even out of sky(who is their dog) Deva is her favorite!!! We will add some pics of the puppies when they come, should be Wed. or Thurs.

Welcome Home Elder Marsh

Well it has been a while since we have had access to the Internet so we obviously have not been able to blog and a lot has happened since our last posting but we will just pick back up with one of our favorite happenings over the last month or so. On October 21st Rob's little Brother Richard came home from his mission. He was serving in Houston Texas and yes he met "IKE"...or better known as hurricane "IKE"! He had quite the experience living in a stake center for nearly two weeks, bathing in the baptismal font with no hot water, and no power yet he still compares this to staying at a Hilton, I think it was his favorite part of the mission. Everyday they were bused into areas where they could serve the community. It is fun to see his face light up as he tells the stories of how grateful people were to have someone come remove the trees down in their yards, or cover the holes in their roofs. He said the first question they would always ask was "How much are you charging?" and you can tell it made the experience even better for him to be able to say, "nothing and explain who they were and why they wanted to help.

We are so proud of Richard and so glad to have him home, 2 years is a long time and 40 pounds later is a lot of meals we missed! We love you Richard-Welcome Home!

LAKE POWELL

Rob and I just returned from an awesome week in Lake Powell on his Dad's Housboat, which is gigantic it held 12 of us, of course I wouldn't expect anything less. We had so much fun just hanging out with his family. Melissa is back from Thailand so she was there and her cute friend Ali came with us, I have to say cute for fear that I might be thrown off the island if she were to read this!!(obviously an inside joke she really is adorable) So events for the week were Skiing, Wakeboarding, Swimming, Hiking, And it wouldn't be Lake Powell without "The Princess Bride."

Here is a slide show of some of the things we did, my favorite is the picture of Moe Wakeboarding, she is amazing!!! Also I love the pics of Rob on two ski's, for those of you who dont know Rob and his family grew up with a boat and all of them are very talented at their own craft, Rob's is slolom, so when we talked him into two skiing I knew I had to record it. Thanks John for the awesome week!!!

Twilight Mania

What a crazy weekend!!! Friday I stood in line for a copy of "Breaking Dawn" Which is the final book in Stephanie Meyer's Twilight Series....I wont spoil it for anyone who has not finished it yet, but I did want to share the experience of waiting in line with a bunch of overzealous fans, it was hilarious to see all of these women dressed in anything from Prom dresses to Wedding dresses and even capes...where was that in the book? So I ran around and took some pictures for your enjoyment as well as mine. Also I have have included a video which inadvertently became a witness to a pigeon attack. I was filming the crowd at about Midnight just to hear the screams from the hundreds...yes really over a thousand people in line when a girl a few people in front of us looked up into the stoop and a pigeon crapped in her eye!!! Seriously! I didn't see it at first and my friends were laughing hysterically and asked if I had caught it, I told them if I did it was just by chance, and at the end of the video you will see a taller Blond on the Left just under the light look up and then grab her eye....What Luck... It's Hilarious!!! Also a Shout out to Carmen who was among those dressed up, I wished I could have seen you in your sexy Pink Dress I would have proudly displayed it here for all to see-I love you girl!!!

Battle of the Balloons!!!

Mindie was In Town Friday night so all the Girls that could (Mom-Mindie-Bridget-cute Pregnant Sarah and Myself)got together and went to see Mama Mia which is fabulous- We had a blast. It is nice when your closest friends are your sister's and even better when its your mom. The movie ended about 11:45pm and at 1am my mom and Mindie were in my drive way wanting her purse she had left in my car, I was up so no big deal. Mindie and her Friends in Idaho are always pulling pranks on each other, leaving refrigerators in drive-ways, Programing their garage opener to other peoples homes and randomly opening their door, silly things so we decided at about 1:30 to do something funny and Rob came up with the brilliant idea of filling their car with balloons so we headed to the store and bought 150 balloons and some window paint then with my spare key to my parents we broke in and stole Mindie's car keys. It took us four separate trips through out the night to finally fill the car. We were up all night because we didn't have any tools except for our lungs to blow the balloons up with so we would blow up as many balloons as we could fit in our car and drive over and put them in her car. On the last trip it was about 5:45 and getting light. Mindie was sleeping in the bedroom at the front of the house with the Windows open, My dad being a freak about the air conditioning had woken up and could hear the air on and knew the windows were open so He got up( its a wonder where Jared gets his obsessions?) to shut the windows and saw us getting into her car, only he didn't know it was us, so He goes back into the house screaming that someone is breaking into Mindie's car, Mindie wakes up and yells out the window "Hey Get out of there!" Then I look up and here is dad coming down the drive way again not knowing it is us, I couldn't help but wonder what he actually would have done if it had been people breaking into the car, he didn't have any weapons or anything, which is lucky for us because he is a concealed weapons carrier, but when Rob stood up he took a few steps back and then realized it was us. They caught us when we were just finishing so we got in the car and went home.
About 9:00 I hear balloons popping in my yard so I look out the window and see the kids, and Mindie writing on my windows, the two boys were on the side yard playing with the balloons and every time the would drop one it would pop and the girls would yell at them. I could tell the girls were having fun so we didn't say anything we just sat and watched them fill up our sauna and write on our windows, but when they started tying balloons on our car it occurred to us that we didn't want 150 balloons tied to our vehicles so we waited for Mindie to get into perfect position right in front of the Xterra and we set off the alarms on both cars, Maddie and bugs yell,"RUN!" and they all took off to there car. When we came out poor Jace was covering his ears and Mindie was still scared. We had a lot of fun and left them with at least 100 balloons to pop and get rid of- I guess We consider ourselves lucky, had Jeremy been in town I think we would have, one, been face to face with a shot gun at 6 am, and two, There would have been a lot more than balloons and paint on my car windows....I did get a call later from Mindie who wanted to comment that it was "Totally embarrassing" driving home with what was on her windows, which was, "Yep it's a Fart!" (drivers side) "I have more kids than teeth!" (passengers side) and " Yes I am speeding" (back window)....Anyone up for visiting us soon?

Twilight Series

Don't worry we are still alive and well. It has been a really long time since we have posted anything and I wish I had a great reason for it but I don't- all I Have been doing is reading the Twilight series- Now you are either cheering me on or rolling your eye's. If you have not read these books you need to. My friend Emily gave them to me to read when I had my surgery in March, I tried several times but just couldn't get into them, and then all of my sisters were reading them and even my brother-in-law, so I decided to try again and this is what I have gotten from doing so!

I completely ignored my husband and any other existence that was near me, I could not stop reading even while laying out I lost track of time-Good Books!!! And If you don't already have an Edward like I do, watch out you are about to be smitten...and oh yeah wear some sunblock!