Birthday Party!

While visiting family this last weekend, there was a birthday party for a 90 yr old lady that I've known my whole life. Somehow I managed to not even take a direct picture of her, but I got one of Fay who I don't think I had seen since we moved to SLC.

She's as happy as ever.


Vera (the birthday lady) is in the background wearing light blue and white.


My mom and grandparents enjoying cake and ice cream.
And here is Aidan wondering why he's awake.

Aunt Teresa's house update

Well, after my last post of pictures, Shawn was confused as to where the house was even being built, so I thought I'd take pictures surrounding the house so he might recognize where it's placed, but FIRST! As you can tell, not much has happened as far as progress on the inside.

My awesome husband.
Gerry and Colleens house (formerly, Johnny and Mary's) in the background

The shed is still there.

The end. Hopefully that gave you more of an idea where it's located Shawn. :-) Weather permitting, they should be working on the stucco this week.

Yom Kippur snowstorm

What's worse than not being able to eat all day? Having a snowstorm too. Sorry, I'm no fan of the snow, especially when it's the middle of October.

We visited our parents for Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) weekend because misery loves company, right? :-)

This is what we woke up to Sabbath morning.....
Luckily, most of it melted by later afternoon.
Between the snow and cold, our soup and bread tasted THAT much better later that night.

Sad

Pretty much the most heartbreaking thing I've read in a while and I just can't get this family out of my mind.

http://sgirl79.blogspot.com/

You'll get the full affect if you can listen to the music too.

He's so cute.

And so smart......
Lately he reads his books like this and then he pretends to read and talks and laughs while he's looking at the book.







He also likes bathtime

There wasn't really anything important about the tub pictures. I just thought they were cute.

Side note: My brother in law (one of them. heh.) just had a birthday this week and later this week he's headed off to Iraqistan ;-) for many months so the main mission of my blog is to keep him informed of what's happening back at home. Good luck Shawn! I'll do my best to keep you in the loop. ;-)

Rosh Chodesh

It was the day to go out and look at the new moon so we went headed up out of the valley so that we could actually see the horizon. It would have been a good time to whip out the telephoto lens but I left it at home. (What kind of photographer are you anyway???)

It was already visible by the time we got to our destination.

Looking over towards Salt Lake. (No, the ACTUAL lake.) ;-)
Just needed a shofar. :-) hee.


Apparently this was the spot that Cary was going to propose to me those many years ago. Ha. Due to road closures and what not, that didn't happen and he had to go to plan B. (Sorry babe, just had to put that in there.)

We went on a walk today

Since it was such a nice day Aidan and I headed outside for some sun, semi-fresh air, and to see the changing leaves. (Actually, I needed to go to the office to pay rent, but that doesn't sound as good)


It's difficult to know how to dress right now. In the morning it's freezing so I bundle the poor kid up and then later on in the day it warms up and he's suffocating.
One of the "ritzier" parts of Sandpiper apartment homes.

The ritzy part. Hee.

The ghetto. Where we live.

The ghetto neighborhood pool

My minivan. Man I LOVE that vehicle...oh and that cute little boy.