Snapshots

With few creative ideas left for writing I walked around the house to take a snapshot of everyone doing their thing. Life is normal, busy, good.

It is pouring rain. Daily. We've been caught in the rain almost every day when getting the children from school, we come home soaked and the kids stay out on the trampoline while I try to get changed as fast as I can. I feel like the WWofW melting. 

Mary having an afternoon snack with her best friend, Isabelle, they just tried out for the 5th grade variety show... they'll find out tomorrow if they made it.

The hazards of a 2 year old with a fetish for cars.

Littles are playing with Valentine upstairs, I am so thankful for cousins.

Abe is at swim practice and Dan is at the office.

I am taking a break from writing Christmas cards to write you... actually I've been procrastinating the letter with the excuse that if I didn't get the cards in the mail they wouldn't reach you before Christmas. I'm afraid they will be late.

Highlights from last week:

   

Scout cut her hair... moments before leaving for church and we didn't notice until we'd sat down in the pew. We took her to a salon to have a stylist salvage her hair and he kept flipping her hair around while he cut- disgusted that she'd chopped it! I think he was more disappointed that her hair cut wouldn't look like a masterpiece no matter what he did to try to fix it. She, on the other hand, loves it.

Dan came back from the US Saturday night and was up for a game of monopoly before church. Yay for dad.

It's the most wonderful time of the year! I hosted a Christmas brunch for my bible study group, and 13 women came and each shared their favorite scripture about Christ. I was so thankful to stand with women who love the Lord and celebrate his birth and light just as I do. I love this class, I am torn if I will continue attending it in the new year, I feel a little over committed... but maybe it does more good to attend this class than it does to attend the RS study group and fellowship the ward members... I really can't keep both. From a missionary perspective- you'd probably advise the non member group study, right?

I am so thankful for the season, and the Light the World Campaign, and the family we will see so soon!

Last photo of Scout before she cut her hair.

Oh, and it was Mary's birthday! She made her own cake with Isabelle.