The First Snow of the Season!

The title says it all. A huge snow storm came through the valley Saturday afternoon. The BYU game against Eastern Washington had to play in this blizzard. The boys had fun playing in the snow the following morning.

Swim Lessons

After waiting a month and half for the Health Department to remove the restriction that kids under 6 years old aren't allowed in the Orem pool due to a Cryptosporidium outbreak, Benjamin finally, FINALLY, started his swimming lessons. (Wooo, that's a long sentence.) The teacher is great, and Benjamin is having a blast! Isaac and I were enrolled in a Mommy-and-me swim class at the same time, but those wearing diapers are not allowed in the pool at the moment. Every time we drop Benjamin off, Isaac wants to go in the pool as well. Isaac has fun playing in the observation room/deck which helps ease his disappointment.

I know it's a bad picture, but there's Ben working on floating with his teacher.

I thought I'd throw these pictures in for fun.

Don't I have a handsome family!!!

Ben took this picture. Not bad for a three year old.

To be Three again!

I think this happened two Saturdays ago. Tom walks through the kitchen and sees some post-its on the wall.

This was definitely a Benjamin work of art. Tom's tack board at work is covered in post-it drawings. Tom asked Ben, "Did you put these here?"

Ben's reply was roughly this, "I did. I colored the wall with a marker. I put up the pictures to hide the line."

Lo and behold, after removing the 'many layers' of post-its and tape, we found the line on the wall. It was very hard to be angry with Benjamin. He is so resourceful. It was such a cute thing too!

Grape Juice Season

I apologize for the lack of updates. Our family was hit with the flu among other things. So time was scarce for me. But don't fear, I am back. :) The October General Conference, a world wide conference held by our church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is a marker for many things.
Let me list them one by one:

1. It WAS a marker for the Day-Light Savings change, but don't get me started on that
2. It marks the change in season--drives through the canyon are beautiful at this time of year due to the changing colors of trees
3. A temperature drop, usually.
4. Beginning of the Holiday Trifecta.
   
5. And most importantly, for Tom, grape juice season.

We'd like to thank our backyard neighbors for cultivating such fine concord grapes. And yes, I'm as surprised as you are, we can make grape juice. With lots of guidance from Tom's mom, we were able to can 18-20 quarts of homegrown yumminess.

Tada!!! See us in our Grape Filled Splendor!

The only fear I have is that they aren't sealed properly. I only heard 1 pop out of the 4 jars there. But when testing, they seemed to be sealed.

The boys helped with the harvesting of the grapes. Benjamin and Isaac are great helpers!