Just Some Pictures For Fun

A Day in the Rain

Restless Natives

One Month Old

We Love Our Little Ruby

My brother and his wife are going through an awful trial right now. Their daughter, Ruby, contracted ecoli which has mutated into a blood infection called H.U.S, a very deadly toxin. She is in the hospital under strict observation for kidney failure. This little girl is facing possible blood transfusions and dialysis. She is only 11 months old. John and Amanda are exhausted and we are all praying very hard for their family. Please include them in your prayers.

John and Amanda, we love you guys a ton! We are praying for you constantly and wish we could be there to help hold you. We know that Heavenly Father loves you and is watching over your family.

Breakfast in Bed

Anyone who has children remembers the first few months with a newborn. The nights can be very, very loooooong! And mornings will leave you feeling as though someone snuck in with glue and applied it to your eyelids and added lead weights to your brain. When you have more than one child, mornings can be even trickier!

In our house the fun usually begins somewhere between 6:30 and 7 am. "Maaaaaaaaaaaama, Maaaaaaaaaama" is heard repeated endlessly from the other room, the baby, woken by the noise, starts to cry, and Douglas turns on the morning news. And I'm usually thinking - I just fell asleep a few moments ago! Pure fun!

Our very dear daughter has noticed how "out of it" mom and dad seem in the morning. So Addison has decided lately to help us out! For the past few mornings she has served us breakfast in bed! In she comes with a tray carrying two GIANT bowls of cereal. She even cut up some cantaloupe! We love how helpful she is becoming. The only caution - I don't want Elias to think he can eat cereal in bed every day!

We love you Addison - Thank you for watching out for your ol' mom and dad.

Saturday Madness

Friday night and into Saturday we enjoyed the first storm of the season - it rained all night and much of the day Saturday. By Saturday afternoon, it was absolutely beautiful here. The air was so clear and clean. I wish we got that more often!

Saturday morning, the women in my ward threw me a diapers and wipes shower. It was lovely and thankfully, I'll never have to buy another box of wipes again as long as I live. Poor little Mason though has broken out with baby acne. It can be hard on a young man to have to go out in public like that. Fortunately, he slept through the entire event.

Saturday afternoon we got a quick (almost surprise visit) from Nicole and Lucia. The Hernandez' are in town for a quincinera (sp?) for one of Julio's niece. We visited for a while and still Mason slept. (This is becoming quite a theme with him.) Douglas and I made some vague promises about going to Sacramento to visit soon. Depending on Douglas' work, Thanksgiving may be an option. I hope? I would really like to get out of Dodge!

And finally, for dinner, our table was graced with our dear friend, Stuart Mitchell. He is town, job hunting. We wish him all the best and hope it works out so that his family can come back to Pasadena!

It was fun to have such a full social calendar for the day!

In Response to the Potter's

Take the Quiz here!

I suppose I had better watch this version of Sense and Sensibility and reread the novel. I am flattered by the idea of being played by Emma Thompson though!