Happy 31st Birthday To My Beautiful Daughter

Dec. 21st 1980 our only daughter was born. We were so excited to have a baby girl born to our family. We named her Shana Lyn. Lyn is after her father's middle name. She weighed 6lbs 120z. There are several things I remember about Shana's birth. One in particular was it being so very foggy for days and days before her due date. She was due on Dec. 12th and the fog was like pea soup. You couldn't see inches in front of you. I was so worried I was going to go into labor during that awful time. The fog never lifted so when I started in labor we took off for the hospital knowing it would take us a little while to get there because of not being able to see well. But we made it and I ended up having to walk the halls for a while before they'd keep me. Another memory is having my mom being dishcharged from the hospital right before Shana was born. We knew it would probably be my moms last Christmas with us so she invited us to come to her home and spend Christmas morning with her. I'm so glad we did. Rogers mom had made a cute Christmas stocking for her and we took pictures of her in it. Shana always talked about wanting to start a family so I wasn't surprised that she got pregnant right away. She's a wonderful daughter, wife, mom, and sister. She is always serving others by babysitting friends kids, taking meals to families in her ward all the time, buying gifts for them, doing secret projects for people. She has taken up photography and now has a wonderful business that she's grown from the ground up. Everyone has fallen in love with her photos and her business has spread like wild fire just through word of mouth. I'm grateful Shana is my daughter and I'm grateful she continues to be an active member of the church and serves valiantly. She's supported her husband through cancer twice and is such a wonderful mom to her children.

This is how she dresses in the winter time when she has to take pictures in the freezing cold weather.

I met Shana and the girls in Salt Lake to shop for a while. We had lunch and really had a nice visit.

Happy Birthday Tween Bird!! I love you.