Shane's Major

Bioinformatics

We are so PROUD of him!

Daphney and I had the chance to attend a conference in which Shane presented his poster that discussed the tool that Shane programed. His program "Variant Compare" displays similarities and differences of variant call format files. This helps medically somehow...  something like knowing what genes are in common between people with diseases that non diseased people don't have. Ask him for more information!

Thanksgiving In Idaho

The neighbor Kim and her daughter who is a month 
older than Daphney came over to play for a while. 

It was so much fun to watch Holly play basketball. Her team won both games we saw. Good luck Holly!!

We went to the King Tut museum in Idaho Falls
and look who we ran into! It was wonderful!

Daphney learning how to computer program with Dad.

Daphney was being all fussy until Holly set her up in her play pin and turned on the song,
"I can ride my bike with no handlebars". Then she was content as can be. 

Beautiful Leaves

                                       Almost 4 months old!         _________Shane, Daphney, and I were outside avoiding scary deer that had surrounded me when all of a sudden Shane happened upon these wonderful leaves. They have such a gorgeous shimmer for it being so late in the fall season. Daphney was cautious in studying the leaves, and did not smile very much, but in the end we had a fun time playing in the leaves together. 

Family Topics

Coming Soon!!

Daphney: 3 months old!!

Please comment on which photo was your favorite!

Halloween Festivites

GOING TO A LLAMA FARM FOR HALLOWEEN!!

I can't remember the last time I was this excited to do something. Everything that would happen before hand was taunting me to go see llamas. For example the song "Battlefield" came on the radio and the part where it says, "go and get your armor get your armor get your armor."  I could have sworn it said go and get your llama. Next time you listen to it try saying llama. It is SO MUCH BETTER!!

So I had this unwavering desire to go and take pictures with llamas since we were going to be the "Emperor's New Groove" characters. I was lucky and found this website for a llama farm. It only costs 100 dollars a day to rent a llama- We could take one trick or treating with us!! We settled on simply visiting and taking pictures. And the website essentially says that the llamas will not spit on us, or eat us, or tackle us, or anything!! However!!- they do sneeze on you.

When we got there we could not find the entrance of the llama farm, so I had to go up to someones house in my ysma costume and ask for directions to the entrance. And this was not a normal house I almost had to ask for directions to the house because of all the fences around it. They thought I was a crazy lady...

Anyways the llama farm was AWESOME and I would recommend it to everyone. They have a creepy parrot that says hi and bye to you- definitely a selling point. An albino peacock! AND GET THIS: They have a black and white bunny- even with a stripe!

PS. Be careful the llamas will walk right up into your bubble and surprise you when you turn around. WARNING: Do not be the one to hold the bag of food- you will have more llama friends then you ever wanted and become trapped!