Cold Snap

 Saturday, Alan and I took a walk down to Winco and it was about 22 degrees.

Sunday it was about the same temperature. We know it has been much colder in UT and tons of snow falling  but this is the weather for OR this week.

Whitney is Engaged!

 Stephen Meek proposed to Whitney on her last Divine Comedy show.

Her 2 sisters, Aunt Rhonda, cousins, (Loren and Tonya), were there from the family to witness it! We love watching the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVWouB3-pAM

New Living Room Lights

 Alan and I went to Home Depot today and got new lights for the mantle area of our living room.

He got the wiring in and a new switch. We love looking at the nativity with just these lights on.

Getting ready for christmas

 Alan put our Olive wood Nativity set on our newly made fireplace mantel. It fits perfectly, he did a good job on it!)

While we were at Deseret Book we saw this picture of Christ looking over Jerusalem from Mt Scopus while sitting under a fig tree. We fell in love with it and decided to get it for our Christmas gift to each other.

Baptism

 Getting ready for the baptism.

 The baptism girl

 The girls are ready to go.

 Lunch after church.

 The girls had hot dogs and chad made grilled cheese for us.

 Finishing up

Time to go home, saying goodbye.

Washington Birthday Party Trip

 The kids all got pumpkins to carve at a neighbor's house.

 The girls weren't sure about the pumpkin guts they had to scrape out.

 All of them were scraped out and the kids will decorate them later.

 We all went to Bills Berry Farm. It was great fun for all of us.

 Hay bales to climb.

 Apples to launch in the sling shots.

 Tons of pumpkins and squash in the fields.

 An animal train to ride.

 Fresh squeezed apple cider to make.

 Almost done.

Alan roasted a hot dog

 and the kids did marshmallows.

 Petting animals to get up close and personal to.

 The birthday girl.

 Fun birthday party with a pinata and cake.

 The kids saying goodbye to their cousins.

Saying goodbye to us as they drive back to UT.

Shower and Steri strips

 I got to take a shower yesterday for the first time in 5 days. Thanks to Justin's plastic moving wrap it was successful!

 

 I took all the padding and wrap off today.

 Now I just need the go ahead to walk on it all I want !)