Dog diarrhea, my 6th graders, and Cade

I started off yesterday by walking my dog in a blizzard. Now I know my dog needs to be walked everyday, twice a day. Although I don't like it, I do it. However, on March 9th I did not think that the walk would be in a complete white out. That was just the start. It wasn't until an hour later that I realized that was not going to be my last walk of the morning, but my first of 4. Yep that's right, evidently my little Wiley had a little too much people food the night before leaving him with a sick stomach and doggy diarrhea. Now with each walk the snow just kept getting deeper forcing us to walk in the tire tracks and poop in the tire tracks. He has only pooped in the street once before when no one was around, but yesterday was a different story. We held up 1 car on each of the first 3 walks and, yep you guessed it, a snow plow on the final walk. "Unbelievable," is all I had to say.

As many of you know my little brother Lance gets home from his mission tomorrow. I have determined that they don't require the sisters to serve missions when they are 19 because their calling is to make "Welcome Home" signs for their brothers that go on missions. I made a sign when my older brother got home, with the help of the cousins, and yesterday I made the sign for the my little brother, with the help of Wiley. Now the sign is not that great because the paper Mom got was orange, of all colors. What am I supposed to do with orange?! So I razor bladed out the letters that spelled "Welcome home Elder Udy" and put colored paper behind them. Wiley assisted by taking his body, complete with snowball covered fur, and laid down right on the sign. Now I try not to blame him for the wet, wrinkly spots it left because the poor guy did not feel well and just wanted to be close to his mom. Here is a picture of the sign not completed. I will post a a better picture tomorrow when we hang the sign up.
Today I got mail!!! When I was teaching last year in Morgan, Utah I had my students enter their poetry, photography, and art they did in class to the school districts art/literature competition. The winning entries were to be placed in a "magazine" during this fall. Well one of the mom's saved me a copy and mailed it to me. It was great to see my students' work published. I am so proud of them and miss teaching a lot.

And finally here are some pictures of Cade for you Cole. Check out him flipping off my dad in the picture with the bunny.