Feedin with Daddy

Last Thursday Coy and I went to feed the cows with Colby. So we packed Coy a bottle, diaper and whipes and some yummy treats, and we took off out the door. We got over to the corrals and Colby asked me to start the tractor for it to warm up. He fed the steers and the pigs while Coy and I climbed into the tractor. Finally he was done feeding the steers and we headed to the cows across the high way. well... being the curious little boy Coy is he decided the steering wheel was a great thing to play with, along with the throttle, and the gears. Oh and did I mention the knob that brings the bucket up and down?... It was interesting to watch him try to figure things out with his little tiny hands.. he had no clue what he was doing all he knew is that they were going to taste good if he could get them into his mouth. Colby and I laughed because he was trying so hard to reach the furthest knob. We finally got over to the cows and Coy had no idea what they were. He stared and stared at them and giggled and screamed! So Colby and I ran the tractor as we looked at the new calves and their moms. I told Colby that its crazy that animal babies grow so much faster than human babies..... We talked and laughed about a few things while watching Coy and  we talked about how much he had  grown in the last few weeks... He is almost 6 months this month.. where did half a year go? I just can't believe it... Finally we were done feed and the long ride home Colby said.. Its crazy hun... No matter what little kid it is. The tractor always puts them to sleep.....

Families Can Be Together Forever

This past weekend we had to go to a funeral and it was probably the best learning experience of my life. The funeral was for my great grandma her name was  Dorothy Caroline Johnson Nielson she was 93 years old. Her husband was buried in Bluff along with a ton of other Nielsons. Well we had to go over to Blanding Utah for the viewing and then to Bluff (ten minutes away from Blanding) for the funeral. My sister rode over with us and as we drove we talked about memories of playing in Blanding and how its crazy that our family was the big timers like the Jones,Pickering, Holts and Terrys in Enterprise.  We arrived a little late to Blanding that night so we got our rooms and just went to bed. The next morning we went to breakfast with my dad, his wife, and my brother and sister. We went to a restaurant called "The Old Timers".. in there were pictures everywhere of my ancestors from the1800s. Pictures from the Hand Cart Company pictures of Richard Jens Nielson (Founder of  Parowan and Bluff Utah) and his family. We left there and went to Bluff where my dad showed us the house he had grown up in,and the houses where Jens lived with his 2 wives. (He had 3 but 1 died in Cedar City and the other 2 lived in Bluff with him). After the funeral we went to the grave sight following the hurs. They layed my grandma down so sweetly next to her husband. They dedicated the grave sight and it was over. We kinda lingered around and looked at all the graves, and there in the fence was Richard Jens Nielson and his two wives and the head stone of his 3rd wife. Along with him was the grave of his son and I think a few other family members. I started to cry because the feeling of the spirit was so beautiful. It felt as if they were all standing near us, welcoming my grandma in to heaven. We took some family pictures while we were there and just enjoyed our selves and the feelings we all had. I have never learned something so heartfelt, and so precious... My dad told us a few more stories while we were in Monticelle that night at my Uncle R.T.'s house. It was so amazing to learn this and I knew that I needed to go or else we would have missed something as amazing as this. ( I dont have a picture of Coy with her, but this is my grandma Nielson with my niece and nephew, and our family picture while we were there)