yummy

Katya loves Jack...He is delicious!

sunrise

The view from our kitchen. Yeah, I love living here.

happy halloween!

We went to a harvest festival at church on Saturday which was kind of lame, but Katya had a pretty good time. We had a blast trick-or-treating. Katya learned to say Halloween, trick-or-treat, and I want some candy please (which is what she said before trick-or-treat at a lot of the houses). She walked for an hour and a half straight in dress shoes without complaint and when we got back to our house, she didn't want to go in. We met lots of nice neighbors. There were so many kids out. Apparently our neighborhood is the place to go on Halloween. The sheriff was even there handing out glow necklaces to the kids. Katya was so excited after we got home to be able to answer the door. She would run to the door every time and yell, Hurry! We went for a walk today and she told me she wanted to trick-or-treat. At least some of the pumpkins were still up. By the way, she was the prettiest princess I've ever seen, and I think we have the cutest polar bear in the world!

winterizing

It's not that cold yet, but we thought she looked cute. Plus Katya's learning about her thumbs, so mittens are pretty cool.

what college students learn

I guess Taylor and Nick must be bored because they make up games to amuse themselves. This one involves squeezing the other's hand until they give up. It usually ends in a draw. At least Katya got a kick out of it.

GGPs

We had a great time visiting great grand parents and uncles in Utah. It was actually our best night of sleep. And Katya even got to play with the tetherball.

some cool pics from our xc trip

The sun was just setting as we were going through St. Louis so I was able to get some great pics out the car window. The bottom picture is from the day after our wonderful adventure in eastern CO driving after the first snowfall of the year. All the roads to Denver were closed, and it was very dark and wet and treacherous. Thank goodness Scott was driving! The next day was beautiful driving through the rockies in the snow.