Auction quilt

The scouts in our ward are having an auction to earn money for scout camp. So I decided to donate this recent finish to help them out. If you are here in town you should come to the spaghetti dinner auction and bid on something.

Slacking off

I have been a slacker for blogging about our long trek over the holidays. This year we decided to drive to visit both of our families. Doing this made it possible for us to take Sadie and Sylvester along. We spent the first 5 days, including Christmas, in Denver. It was full of traditions like baking, Christmas Eve dinner, and shoveling snow. Then there were the new things like learning to line dance from Francie, going to an arcade on Christmas Eve, and having a BB gun shooting contest.


After the first shot at plywood where the BB bounced off and hit my dad in the chin, things were reconfigured and we aimed at our targets on a cardboard box.


Then we headed back east to Kansas City and spent several days there. We had family pictures taken, visited Kemper Museum of Modern Art, baked, made gingerbread houses, and had a fun New Years Eve Crab fest and party.


For the New Years Eve party I painted a scene with four snow people and we cut hole out for peoples head. It was a fun project.


Sadie and Sylvester did very well with the three days in the car each way. Sadie was a little on edge with Will (just in case he snuck up on her) and Sylvester enjoyed having someone at his level. We had a lot of fun seeing everyone.

PB love

Whenever we finish a jar of peanut butter we share it with Sadie and Sylvester. Sylvester does much better with the lid (a little extra smear of PB in it). Sadie on the otherhand will take the jar and go to town. She holds it tightly between her feet and sticks her tongue in as far as it can possibly go, trying to get every last bit. She will shove her nose deep in until the jar is stuck, but she doesn't care. Whatever it takes to get the good stuff.

It has arrived

Winter that is. After such a nice mild November, December is bringing on the winter feel. Instead of 40's the temperature is low 20's. And yesterday on the walk home the wind was biting, blowing the falling snow so it stings. Above is the walk home.

Some people around here say that last time Rochester had such a mild November, the rest of the winter was terrible with many blizzards. We will see what the next few months bring.

This is our garage window with lots of little ice crystals forming on it.

A special day

You've had a birthday shout "Hooray!"

We want to sing to you today.

One year older and wiser, too.

Happy Birthday to you!

Chipotle vs Moe's

When we moved to Rochester Caleb was so disappointed there was no Chipotle. Soon Moe's opened nearby which has a similar concept. He soon became a big fan. Then this year in August Chipotle came to town. So Caleb and Ryan decided to do a side by side comparison. Chipotle vs Moe's. We tried to get the same things on each. (can you tell which is which in the picture?) I am not sure which burrito won that night. But I think Caleb prefers Moe's (with the free chips and salsa it comes with).

A busy end to October

The past few days my parents have been visiting. They like to go, go, go. So, we had a busy three days and explored some new parts of Rochester. Here is a list of some of the things we did:
got pumpkins
saw giant corn stalk teepees
had hot cider
painted glass luminaries
visited the George Eastman house
walked through the Sacred Grove
bought milk from a local dairy
tried Sweetango apples
watched an improv comedy show
ate chicken pot pie
put in soffit covers
saw a 1940's musical review
carved pumpkins
took autumn photos
watched Fringe
drank hot chocolate
gave out Halloween candy
dropped off Caleb's lunch
visited Pittsford Wegmans
And that is not all. A fun time was had by all. We really enjoyed the visit and look forward to seeing them again soon for the holidays.