It's Daniel's 22nd birthday, I can't believe he is 22 years old. Time certainly flies by way to fast. We feel very blessed to have him in our family. He always brings with him fun and humor, the room he enters is always brighter. I am grateful for the man that he is becoming. Lets go back a few years say about 21 1/2 years. He had ear infections one right after the other. We rocked and rocked to get him to sleep and then he would sleep for about 30 mins. How he was able to walk at 8 months is beyond me with all the ear problems the Ear Dr. was even surprised he was walking so early. At 10 mo. he had tubes put in to help with the infections, well I can say he was in the percentile that only helped alittle we still had to battle them just not as frequent. When he was about 18 mo. we were at Lake Powell and he decided to be a hot coal walker. We were getting ready to leave that day and we had set him down away from the coals, along way away and continued to pack things. Well I turned to see how he was doing and he had gotten up and was headed for the hot coals. I began yelling his name I could see what was going to happen and I started running and yelling his name. Just as I got to him he had stepped one foot in and the toes of the other foot. I grabbed him and ran him to that wonderfully sterile water "Lake Powell" he was screaming and I looked down at his feet to see that the skin was hanging from his one foot (sorry to be so graphic) it was a horrible sight to see. To shorten the story gave him a blessing and drove him to Page AZ to the little clinic they had there. They dressed his feet and called a head to a plastic surgeon here in St. George. He was crying and trying to step out of his feet. It was a very long ride home that day. I know that the blessing really didn't calm him at the time but the Dr. thought for sure he would have to have skin graphs and because of that blessing his feet healed and he has had no repercussions to this very day. I am thankful for Priesthood blessings. To move on to when he was 8 he had climbed the rain gutter on the side of our house and made it just about to the roof when the rain gutter came apart and he feel to the side walk and hit his head. Off to the hospital again with him. He was in the hospital for 3 days with a concussion seeing double and had a very mushy head. Oh there are others but these are the major ones. Needless to say I am very grateful that I have been able to raise him to this point now it is Chantelle's job to finish with him. He married a wonderful girl whom we love as our own. We love you Daniel!!!!!!! 