San Francisco

Keith and I finally took a vacation, and decided to see the City. Zach and Morgan came with us, Jonathan was an outstanding host, tour guide and chauffeur.

Lights!

As a productive and illuminating distraction from Keith's exam studies, we decided to install lights in three key areas of our home: our living room, inside our closet, and on our patio by our newly raised-on-pedastal washer and dryer. 

Step One: find the stud. There he is! Wearing David's old Tigger sweater!

Step Two: cause some van-damage and string the wire.

Step Three: patch the damage.

Step Four: employ an out of work artist for the final touch up work.

Step Five: basque in the light of your labors.

This closet light will prevent those fashion mistakes due to pre-dawn dressing in the dark.

Now we can do laundry without straining our eyes.

Oh yea. Morgan wasn't impressed with our ward christmas party's santa. 

Creche Festival

This past weekend we made two trips to the creche festival. We thought of our family when we saw some of these nasimientos (nativity scenes).

This one is for Daddy because its full of hilarious moose in costume.

This one made me think of Randy with its chess theme.

This one is for Hermana Collins who will be transferring from the Argentina MTC to her first area in Uruguay in the next few weeks.

This gourd was carved by a Mexican dentist with his actual dental tools. For Jonathan and Polin of course!

For mommy - the only horse we saw in any nativity scene.

For Ryan - the koala's reminded me of you.

This one was one of Keith's and my favorites because of its swoop design and all in oneness.

Keith thought these penguins were funny, so this is for him.

This nativity was very similar to Daniele's precious moments, so naturally we thought of Daniele when we saw it.

We enjoyed the nativity scenes so much, we decided to become one. As you can see, Joseph and I were joined by a friendly Christmas angel.

Our neighbors the Navarros enjoyed the festival just as much as we did. It certainly put us all in the holiday spirit!