Duck Creek

As you probably know we went up to Duck Creek this weekend to spend some time with Brett's aunt Dianne and uncle Wilton.  They came in from Maryland and were nice enough to offer to rent a cabin for us up in the mountain.  The weather was beautiful and cold and gave us a chance to try out some of Kennedy's new winter clothes.  I'm going to have to apologize in advance for not having any pictures of my own.  We did bring the camera but we forgot it on our little excursion and then didn't take any pictures after that.  We got up there late on Friday night and then had a rousing game of Settlers of Catan.  Unfortunately Kennedy didn't sleep all that well, but it wasn't as bad as it could have been.

On Saturday we all headed down to Kanab to visit the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary and take a tour.  It's a great facility that houses 1,800 to 2,000 animals at a time.  Mostly they rescue animals from shelters that can't handle them or from the wild and then try to socialize them.  They then try to get them adopted or put them back in their natural habitat.

They have horses, birds, dogs, cats, bunnies, and some wild animals.  Here is a picture of the front gates of the cemetery.  They have about 4,000 animals in there.

We visited the dogs and the cats who were all thoroughly fascinated with Kennedy.  She tried to pet the cats when they sniffed her, and both of them liked each other.  They were all so sweet and seemed so happy.

On Sunday, while some of the family headed to Bryce Canyon, we decided that Kennedy had had way too much of the car for one week and we wanted to give her a break, so we stayed home.  While she napped we watched a session of General Conference.  I was particularly moved by President Henry B. Eyring's talk on unity.  The text won't be online until Thursday, so I will be sure to get a link to it on here then.  I wasn't able to see any more of conference, but I did watch the Relief Society broadcast and loved it.  President Dieter F. Uchtdorf gave a beautiful talk on the worth of women and the things that we can do to build our feelings of self-worth.  It was a great weekend and a great week, but I think that Kennedy is happy she won't have to sit in the car seat for longer than 20 minutes for a couple of months, and I am really happy to be home again too.  I feel like I haven't seen Brett for a week and I'm happy to have him all to myself again!

PS - There appear to be some technical difficulties with the YouTube video I posted.  It worked just fine for me when I put it up here, but since then no one has been able to view it.  I will let you know when I get the kinks worked out.