Here Comes Santa Clause

My work had a "Santa Saturday" where you could come and get a picture with Santa as well as get some juice and donuts. Jade didn't quite understand the concept of Santa or the importance of him giving her presents. She was mostly frozen in fear, but somehow we were able to get her on Santa's lap and take a picture. We then wandered around the well decorated Hale Center Theater in West Valley and she grew fatigued from all the smiling I had her do.

CDC

I've always had this dream of working at the CDC. (Always = since my freshman year of college and when I determined that I wanted to go into Public Health). So when I found out that the place we would be staying for Jon's wedding was only a mile away, I decided to book a tour. Unfortunately, they don't let you see the actual CDC buildings, but you can view their museum. It was neat to see all the various public health out reaches of the CDC over the years and once we got past the somewhat rude and suspicious security guards, I really enjoyed the museum. 

This man was arrested for selling margarin.
Governments and monopolies at their best. 

Anna enjoyed this bi-name-ial distribution chart

It's a microscope!

This wall of germs looked a lot like a climbing wall.
Turns out they didn't like it when you actually used it as a climbing wall.

Atlanta

We went to Atlanta for my brother's wedding. Jon and Jen were gorgeous and happy and it was a lot of fun. I love seeing family and I love hanging out with little kids, which I did a lot of. I also go to see my good friends, the Barnes and we went to Korea town where we ate delicious food and bought super cute things. I'm going to have to find my way back to Atlanta soon.

Winter is here

Long johns

New helmets

Foot testing?

Murder Mystery

For our book club this month we decided to get together and have a murder mystery. It was a 1930s theme where we all played roles as actors/actresses/play wrights, etc. It's a lot of fun to play with friends and we had a lot of fun.

Anna and Eric (the latter is looking like a craze)

Carin and Alex, hard to get a clear picture of them

Henry likes to put this on his head

Hanging out on the couch, solving a murder mystery

Pictures outside

We took some pictures with Anna a couple of weeks ago, because the weather was delightful and it had been a while since we took photos. Here are some of my favorite.

Halloween

For Halloween, Daniel wanted to be Link (from the popular video game Zelda). I wanted to do something that would match, but didn't want to be the traditional Zelda (too much effort to get a dress together and try and figure out the long hair thing). So we decided to be Link and Tetra (the pirate version of Zelda from Zelda Wind Waker). Most people who saw me thought I was a pirate, which, technically, I was. When Daniel wore his outfit on campus on  Friday most people identified him as Peter Pan-- although I don't know how they thought he got such an amazing shield. 

We also took Jade and Jonathan trick or treating around my work place. Jade would timidly go up to each bowl of candy and ask if she could have one. Then she would say "I like this candy!" She got really excited about all of the fake spider webs that were hanging and talked about how scary it was. 

I made this for my work party. Too ad no one ate any of it.

Jade loved the pumpkins.