Tubby Time

This is our sweet little Dawson after a nice warm bath. He loves to take baths! He just calms right down. He has a little tub that I wash him in and while he sits in that I let the water keep running in his tub and it drains off the sides. So he will stretch out his legs let the water run between his toes! It's so cute!

J.D. got a DEER!

Yes he did! He got a 2 by 3 pt. It was his FIRST time even shooting at a deer and he got it! What a good shot I'll say. I have told J.D. since we've been married that I'm a good luck charm when it comes to hunting. Anytime I go, we always get a deer... so far anyways.. :) And last year I didn't go, no deer. This year he'd been out Friday, Saturday, and then Sunday night I finally went for a couple hours and he got one! Hurray for my hunners!

Here is the 2 deer shot this year in the Stevens family!

This is the whole thing! J.D. says it's small...but it's still way cool
And here is my hunter all bloody from gutting and cleaning the sucker... it was freakin sick!

And this is all of us who were able to make it to the camp -hunt trip this year! What a fine lookin bunch of people I'll say.

Being Prepared

Recently in our sacrament meeting for church we had speakers talk on emergency preparedness.. Yesterday I received this email from our friends and made me really think about being prepared. Its always been something I knew I should be better at and slowly we are getting a food storage and other necessities, but nothing that would last more than a month so far.. I had made it a goal to start putting one together since the meeting in church, but it's been a slow progress.
They always have talks on being prepared, but then you never hear anything about having to use it anytime soon... well, this email really stuck out to me and I really don't think it's just chance that the being prepared has been a huge topic of discussion more and more AND then all the things we've heard about the bird flu AND then receiving this email. I just thought it might interest some of you.

I received this from an LDS friend.

See attached article explaining a recent talk given by the head of the Center for Disease Control on the expected coming pandemic...

I went to a seminar about a month ago put on by the Church of Jesus Christ, Latter Day Saints. Dr. Susan Puls, who is a cardiologist and who was appointed by the first presidency of the church as the head of the church's pandemic committee, spoke. She said she was not an expert on pandemics as this was not her speciality, but in the two years she's been in her position, is fast becoming one. She now works for the church on a full-time basis working on planning for the pandemic and trying to get the word out to as many church members as possible. There were about 1400 people at the Saturday all-day seminar I attended - they were from Idaho down to St. George, Utah.

In her capacity, she works with the governors pandemic committee and the federal pandemic planning agency.

She also said a pandemic is coming - not 'maybe' but is DEFINITELY coming.

She says the pandemic is expected within the next two years but she personally belives it will be 'sooner rather than later.' The various groups (CDC, WHO, etc..) do not know what the pandemic will be but 'first among their list of suspects is the avian bird flu. It's only one mutation away from being easily transmitted from birds to humans and from human to human.'

She said the World Health Organization expects 40% of the world population to become sick. Of those who become sick, they expect 50% will die. You do the math - there are over 6 billion people on the earth today - that puts the death rate at over 1.4 billion people - and she says these deaths will happen over only a 3 to 4 month period of time.

Dr. Puls related that when the pandemic hits the US, mandatory quarantine's of all infected and NON-INFECTED peoples will occur within the first 48 hours. Only emergency personnel (Dr's, nurses, firemen, police, national guardsmen, etc..) will be allowed to leave their homes - not even to go to the store, etc.. This quarantine will last during the duration of the 'pandemic cycle' which will last approximately three months.

Her main point was that everyone will need a MINIMUM of 3 months supply of food at home as the governments of the world will be overwhelmed within the first week and cannot be counted on to provide food, medical help, etc..

She only briefly spoke on the 'social disruption' that will occur and did not go into any detail about what plans may, or may not exist, to deal with this. However - think about this - if your neighbors (both those you know and strangers) run out of food and are starving how might they react? Then think of all the individuals who already live outside of the law and are only 'controlled' by our current legal system. How might they react when law enforcement becomes innefectual due to illness among the ranks and those who abandon their jobs to stay home and protect their own families. Ditto for the national guard and our own military.

Anyway, this isn't to scare anyone - just to provide a 'heads up' as 'to be forewarned is to be forearmed.'

Good Times!

This weekend my sister Jori, her son Carson, and my mom came over on Saturday. We went up on Cedar Mountain ..and it was snowing for the first time! We took some pictures so we could remember Dawson's first snow day-October 11th! I'm sure I won't remember to do all the 'firsts' with the other children we may have (I will try).. but for now I can do them with Dawson since he's the only one of course. :)Here's our family!
Mommy and Dawson
Daddy and Dawson
And here's Grammy with what she calls her 'big bug'(Carson-Jori's son) and 'little bug.'(Dawson)
:)


This is my nephew Carson playing catch with his mom (Jori). I thought it was so cute to see him squeal and clap over throwing the football, so I decided to post it and let everyone join the fun!

Good Times with Mom and Dad

When J.D. gets home he studies for a few hours, or whatever he can spare and then goes to bed. I desperately wanted to shower, so J.D. watched Dawson while I did so. When I was done, this is what I came out to find. I thought it was so cute! J.D. is studying with Dawson.. and you can see how interesting Dawson finds it. (I'd be asleep too...)
Dawson loves to be held sitting up. He loves looking around... or at least he tries because I don't think he can see yet... maybe he can and is fooling us all. I turned on the Incredibles for J.D. and he loved it! He just sat with me in silence while the movie was going for a good 20 min! He gets loving the Incredibles from his dad and you have read before.. :)

Hair-Do's!

While Grandma Stevens was here, she helped me learn a new way to give Dawson a bath so he won't cry so much. It was a success too! Afterwards we decided to play hair dressers and these are some of the ways we did Dawson's hair. I love that he has hair to play with... ahaha!

The Silly Side of the Stevens'

Well J.D.'s mom has been staying with us for a couple of days to help with the baby and she brought her camera. We got looking at all the pictures and just started laughing at all the fun memories that the Stevens family has had. So I decided it would be fun to post some of them. It also explains the another side of J.D. :)

So to start off, there is this new tradition of making birthday hats for the birthday people! Here are the creations so far starting with Loni and Lynette
This is Lucas! He's the oldest sibling, has 3 kids (Jetta-6, Brant-3, Tilden-2) and is married to Molly. (you will see her in another pic)

This is the 2 that started it all, Mom and Dad! There birthdays are 1 day apart! They are high school sweethearts, and have been married for 35 years!

This is the youngest brother, Parker (9) He is the highlight of the family. This happens to be a very good picture of parker's smile! We have a hard time getting him to smile with eyes open AND not a big cheesy grin. When we say "smile" we never know what we are going to get from Parker.... :)


This is Loni and Lucas. Notice the similarities in the sleeping style....

In Holden they always have a Christmas Program and then Santa comes. Parker went up with me so I wouldn't be scared to see Santa. hahaha... I just wanted some candy.
Also they have a light parade. Molly has a realty business and this was her float. Parker is posing inside... don't be confused that parker isn't really 'for sale'

This is Molly and the kids dressed for Halloween. Molly is dressed to be Lucas..

Just recently J.D.'s parents went out to Virginia to drive back with Chet and Bobi Sue and also a road trip. This is a statue that was in Navoo. Chet and Bobi Sue and Taylee posed the same as the statue...
Then J.D.'s parents posed with one of their daughters Lynette. It's a picture perfect moment! Lynette really resembles the statue. :) JK!

This is almost the whole clan. This was last year for Thanksgiving. We are missing JoAnn. She is the 2nd to oldest sibling. She passed away last August. After looking at the picture, we decided that she was there in between Bryant and Lucas in the back row. :)