Sophie Halbern March 10, 2012

A Bitter Sweet Story of the Passing of Bergdorf Halbern 

& the new puppy Sophie Halbern

March 10, 2012 

" You Will find that there is always beauty and hope 

In even the most awful circumstances." 

~Bradley Trevor Grieve

 On Tuesday March 6, 2012. Bergie our sweet Cocker Spaniel got really sick. She had what is called an auto immune system, where the body attacks the red blood cells, and causes other things to happen as well. My mom took her to the vet everyday and they kept checking her blood count and gave her antibiotics. We all thought through the antibiotics and having her blood checked, thought she would make it through this. On early Friday Morning my parents took her to the doggy hospital in Salt Lake. The doctor there gave her a blood transfusion, which caused her to have a seizure. After the first blood transfusion she began to have swelling in the brain, and at the point there wasn't anything that the doctor could do. Hours later on Friday they called my parents and she was put to sleep. My parents decided before Hand that they were going to have her cremated. By cremating her they felt that it was a lot lot less painful, then having to bury her. The doctors at the hospital made us clay paw prints for us as a keepsake of Bergie. She will be missed. Bergie was such a sweet caring dog, who was my mom's companion, and my dad's best friend. She was also there to help us through all our hard times. Bergie also loved to play outside with her balls, rocks and anyother item she could find to chew. She may have only been with us for a short five years, she will be in our hearts foever! After all of this happened my parents decided to get a new puppy, which I believe is the best way with the healing process. My mom didn't want another Cocker Spaniel she wanted a Golden Retriever so my dad went on KSL and looked and luck or blessings would have it, we found one. My parents went and met with a breeder in Liberty Utah. Her name was Tessa and they were impressed with the family and decided that they would purchase one of the puppies. The puppy that they purchased was a sweet seven week old Golden who they named Sophie. I love her already. Sophie is a sweet cuddly puppy who likes to play, bite, and sleep a lot lol!  I feel that she is a God send. I know that when my dad was looking he would find the right one that we needed to help us during the healing process. My friend Jeanine has two Golden's and Emily's sister went and purchased one of Sophie's sister's the next morning after loosing their sweet Keesha. I told Jeanine we should start a club and call it the Golden Girls.I decided to do a mini photoshoot with her and here are some of the photos.

   

Fun Swimming Pictures of My Mom and I Swimming with my Nieces July 23, 2011(Taken with the Camera on my phone)

Fun Swimming Pictures of

My Mom and I swimming with

My Nieces July 23,2011 

"The only way to get through life is to 

laugh your way through it." ~Sister Majorie Hinckley

My Mom and I went swimming with Haelee, Sadie, and Oaklee on Saturday the 23rd. It was hot and fun. We had gone swimming the day before with Elizabeth my oldest sister who is also their mom. She wanted to work on her tan lol!! I didn't bring my big camera down so I took these pictures with the camera on my phone. They actually turned out pretty good. My mom told me that I couldn't post this picture of the three of them on Facebook, so I decided to blog it instead, she will never know MUWAHAHA!! I didn't think that I was going to go swimming that day because of being in the heat the day before. I am glad I did. I would have to say that it was in the 90's and very hot, blah! I wished the water was a little bit colder!  Oh well! *SIGH* We swam for at least 2 hours, maybe more, I was so done with swimming for a while, after this. Later I found that part of my shoulders and arms were burnt!! HELLO! I had SPF 50 on. Maybe I needed a SPF 100 :( oh well! Again I *SIGH* The best thing about this swimming adventure was the my niece Oaklee was very brave! She swam in the Big pool,instead of the baby pool. She used a tube of course, but hey she still did it all by herself. Eventually she got so brave that we didn't even need to be in the pool with her, especially when she was jumping off the side of the pool!! Sadie Haelee and I also had swimming races, which was fun. Below are a couple of more pictures that I took of us swimming. The one of Haelee and I with our goggles is my Facebook profile Picture, how crazy is that!! 

Ogden Temple March 31, 2011

Ogden Temple 

March 31, 2011 

(These Pictures were taken with my Camera Phone) 

"Until you have entered the house of the Lord and have received all the blessings which await you there, you have not obtained everything the Church has to offer. The all-important and crowning blessings of membership in the Church are those blessings which we receive in the temples of God."

 ~Pres. Thomas S. Monson,  The Holy Temple, A Beacon to the World.

Conf. Ensign April 2011

The Ogden temple is getting a whole new look to it and will be completed in 2 years!! I can't believe that we have to wait that long, but it will be awesome to see what it will look like when it is done. My friend Reb and I decided to go do a session at the Ogden Temple, which we actually ended up doing inititories instead of a session because we took too long taking pictures. Before we went in the temple we walked around the temple grounds and took pictures. I didn't have my regular camera with me so I took these pictures with my camera on my phone, which they turned out pretty good!! The Temple grounds at the Ogden temple are so beautiful. I feel very blessed that we went and did some temple work, before the temple closed. After we were done doing some temple work we took a couple more pictures of the temple, including one of us together, because that is so Reb LOL!! It was a very fun night!! 

 

A Bird Adventure, Featuring A Mother Robin With Her Babies

  A Bird Adventure 
 Featuring A Mother Robin 
With Her Babies 
Spring 2011

One Day I walked past the upstairs window and noticed a bird's nest on the window ledge. After seeing this I was in awe knowing that a Mother Bird and her babies would be there in that nest, and that I would be able to see this unfold. My Mom and Dad were also in awe of this. Every day we would walk by and check to see how the Mother Bird was doing. My Mom put a pillow in the window to give the Mother Bird her privacy. Then one day there were Three Baby Robins in the nest. These three baby Robins were so small and sweet. Everyday The Mother Bird would come and feed them behind the Father Bird would follow and clean up the baby bird poop, I thought that this was funny! Eventually I was able to take pictures of these baby Robins. This has been a really neat experience from when the nest was built to seeing the baby Robins be born. I feel really blessed to have witnessed one of Heavenly Father's beautiful creations. I hope you enjoy the photos.

 

More of the REAL Soccer Game May 29, 2010 @ Rio Tinto Stadium

More of The REAL Soccer Game
May 29, 2010
@ Rio Tinto Stadium

"Winners are like Biscuits when things heat up

They rise to the occasion. ~HJB

REAL Soccer Game May 29, 2010 @ Rio Tinto Stadium

REAL Soccer Game

May 29, 2010
@ Rio Tinto Stadium

"Talent Wins Games, but teamwork wins championships."
~Michael Jordan

Brenda and I went to a REAL Game. Oh my gosh it was so much fun!! I loved it!! Neither of us had been to a game, before!! They are actually really good. I never thought Soccer games could be so much fun!! Her friend Heather sold us half price tickets. Instead of paying $30 we only paid $ 15. Heather's husband Eric was selling them as a fundraiser for the Police Departments and Fire Departments. The seats were really good seats, row C section 5. I was able to get some really cool shots from where we were sitting. Brenda was bummed that she forgot her camera!! Next game we go to she will bring it. We were able to sit by Heather, Eric, and their cute baby!! At first it wasn't too cold, but then it became really chilly!! I didn't really want to spend $50 and buy a sweatshirt!! The only part of my body that was super cold were my fingers from taking so many pictures!! A lot of the soccer players on both teams are really good looking, so that was plus, besides the game being so much fun!! I didn't realize how many soccer fans there were. However there were not so many crazy fans so no fights broke out, maybe in other countries!! Anyway REAL won 4-1!! I really would love to go to another game sometime. Besides getting some cool shots it was fun to take part in something so HUGE!

More From the Twilight/Multanomah Falls Road Trip July 2009

More from the Twilight/Multanomah Falls

Road Trip, with Reb.July 2009

" Trust your Crazy Ideas, no matter how Crazy they turn Out to be." ~ABH 10'