President Kimball's House

This is the house where President Spencer W. Kimball grew up. He grew up down here in Thatcher, Arizona.

Scorpions

Here are some pictures of some scorpions we found. Sorry the images are so blurry, however, you can still see about how big they are. The one below is one that I found in the house we are living in. Scary! At least we are going home soon, that way we won't have any more encounters. This scorpian is one that Tom found by his desk at work.

Grand Canyon & Thanksgiving

After going to Sedona, we went to the Grand Canyon. It was amazing. Someday we would like to go back and hike down into the Canyon. We didn't do alot of hiking this time because it was freezing cold. I was wishing I had brought a coat down to Arizona, instead of just a jacket. Below you can see the Grand Canyon crack through the landscape.

Here Savannah and Olivia are bundled up and, of course, Tom is in shorts. He doesn't feel cold at all. Just kidding. He is, amazingly, just a little cold.

Here Savannah is playing with Ginny at my Aunt Brenda's house on Thanksgiving. Savannah and Olivia had a blast. There were alot of little cousins to play with. Oh yeah, Savannah is wearing a doll dress. She is so silly.

Olivia and Savannah are playing under the stairs, in a play closet of kids.

Sedona Arizona

On our way up to Las Vegas for Thanksgiving, we stopped in Sedona, Arizona, to see the beautiful red rock canyons they have. Sedona is a very pretty town, however, it is a tourist trap like Jackson Hole, Wyoming. There is one thing that we didn't do while we where in Sedona, and that is ride the natural rock water slide they have there. It would have been to cold to get wet. Below is an example of the red rock stones they have all over Sedona.

Here is Savannah posing for her photo:

Here we are walking on one of the trails in Sedona:

Olivia is trying to do a puzzle. She didn't get very far. :)

This is a church in Sedona. They don't use it for services, it is just for visiters to come and see.

Straight Hair

Over Thanksgiving my Aunt Brenda straightened my hair and my cousin's wife, Janay, cut my hair.

Twilight

Of course we (well at least I will) will be going to see Twilight. Hopefully, I will be able to see it over Thanksgiving break in Vegas.

Halloween

Halloween was pretty fun here. It was a bit of a change from being up in Cache Valley. The weather was quite warm down here. A good portion of the houses that we visited for Savannah to go trick or treating we didn't even have to knock on the door; a lot of people were just sitting out side while trick or treaters came around. We first went to the ward's trunk or treat, and then went around to a few houses. Savannah had a lot of fun.
Here is Savannah and Olivia in their costumes:

Here is Savannah and Olivia checking out their haul:
Here is Tom's attempt at a Darth Vader pumpkin:Here is Elise's pumpkin:Olivia being cute as usual:Here is Elise's pumpkin she painted. Pretty impressive!!:
Here are Savannah's pumpkins:

Kidney Stone

Thursday morning turned into quite the adventure. Tom woke up at about 2:30 and was having a little pain in his abdomen. He went back to bed thinking nothing of it. Then at 3:30 he woke up again, the pain was worse, and within a few minutes the pain was becoming quite unbearable. We decided it would be best to take him to the hospital. Elise drove him there, luckily Elise's parents were visiting at the time, so we didn't have to take the kids with us. Once we got to the hospital they asked a bunch of questions and gave him some pain medication. That helped make the pain so it wasn't so unbearable, but it was still quite painful. They took a CT and found that the cause of all the pain was a kidney stone. They then gave him a little bit of morphine, and after a little while sent him home, telling him the stone would probably pass within 24-48 hours. They said the stone was only 3mm, so not a really large one, but a large enough one to be quite painful. Apparently the ureter (tubes between the kidney and bladder) are only about 1mm in diameter. Some pain medication was prescribed. We returned back home at about 6:30, and Elise was going to go to Wal-Mart to get a hot pad, and find out when the pharmacy opened to get Tom's prescription filled. On the drive home Tom's pain went away, and he thought it was just because he was sitting just right or something. Once we got home Tom went to the bathroom, and out came the stone. Luckily it all happened in a short 4 hours, and didn't last for the 24-48 hours the hospital had said. Before leaving for the hospital Tom had said a prayer that everything would work out for the best, and it turns out that it did. Tom was planning to take the day of to deal with the stone, but since it came out at 6:30 he decided he would go to work because he felt good enough to go. Of course he felt good enough to go to work, he was on some type of pain medicine and morphine. So, Tom went to work. Luckily he doesn't operate any heavy machinery and his company doesn't do random drug testing. Just kidding. :) Hopefully he doesn't get another one in the future, because it sure was not fun. If anyone knows of anyone else in the family that has had a kidney stone, please let us know. It would be nice to know if his stone could be linked to hereditary by any chance.

Poll Results

The final results of the first official poll are in. Results were looking pretty scary initially, after two votes only 50% were correct!! In the end the results were much better, 5/7 got the correct answer, 71.43%! Not to bad, a C average. We are in Safford, AZ.