Nature Walk

Monday, November 19, 2007The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints encourages families to set aside time to be together on Monday evenings. We try to do this in our home and tonight our lesson was about nature as evidence of our Heavenly Father's love for us. So Susanna and I (Scott got home in the middle of it) went for a little walk to collect items of nature (we collected two leaves that had fallen on the sidewalk in front of our apartment). Because we live in Seattle it was already very dark at 6:00 when we headed out so I gave Susanna a headlamp and she looked so cute with it on that I had to snap a picture-- and now you get to see it too.

If you're curious about this Family Home Evening thing, click here for more information.

Halloween!

This year Susanna was a skunk for Halloween. It is an adorable costume except that without the hat she looks like a priest from the front. I have nothing against priests, but I that's definitely not what she was for Halloween (does dressing up your toddler as a priest seem wierd to anyone else?).

Above you'll also find a photograph of the pumpkin sign Susanna and I made. It is worth posting because it has Susanna's first scribbles on it; in the past when we've gotten out the crayons she has only wanted to eat them (admittadly, she was still trying to eat them quite a bit while we were working on the pumpkin).

There is also a Halloween family photograph from a little party we attended. Scott, as you can probably tell, was a robot. His costume was excellent-- he even won the "grand champion" award at the party for it. I, as you can probably not tell, was "The Grapes of Wrath." Earlier in the evening I had quite a few grapes attached to me, but they didn't last long. Scott was not the only person who won something at the party: I won the doughnut eating contest bringing home a little plastic aquarium with some tiny fish that grew to 400% of their original size. Is that something to be proud of?

To see photographs of last year's Halloween (there are no words; apparently I have become more verbose), click here.