Today was an exciting day in the Allen household! This morning Joe was baptized. He is a new man! He has never been baptized and he wanted to before he left for Iraq. Since our church is new we don't have a place to baptize yet. So the church got an inflatable pool to baptize in. Joe said it was FREEZING. There were about 20 people who got baptized today. It was really amazing! Yeah for Joe!!
Also, today we were blessed with a new family member. Her name is Polly! She is a two pounder that is full of energy. Our neighbor's weren't able to take care of her anymore and offered her to us. And of course I took her in a heartbeat, it was Joe I had to convince. After he thought about it and told me everything I had to do with her while he was gone; he said, "yes and Happy Anniversary!" I am glad now Joe has his big dog and I have my little bitty dog. Her and Roxie chase each other around the house. Roxie tries to pounce on her, so I am a little afraid for her life. A 2 pound Polly against 60 pound Roxie. For now they seem to really like each other, we will see what happens down the road.
Mel and I made a quick trip up to Jackson, Wyoming, on Monday; it's only about a 4 hour drive from SLC. The weather was perfect. It was about 70 degrees each day and there were no clouds in the sky to it was good for taking pictures of the Grand Teton's (behind us in this picture). The tallest peak is 13,770 ft high. In April of '05 Dustin and I came here for spring break but never got to see the Teton's w/out any cloud cover, so this was nice to finally see.
On the way back from the Teton's Nat'l Park, Mel said she was sad that she still had never seen a Moose...we literally looked up immediately after she said this and saw this young Moose on the side of the road. They aren't scared of people at all. Later that day we went to a local steak and game house for dinner and Melanie had another first for her and probable the entire Smith family...she tried some of my elk chops that were cooked medium-rare; I know here family would be shocked to have seen that - but, she said it was better than her steak.
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