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.

Hobby Town

We dropped by a neat little hobby shop in Orem this week. I feel like most hobby places could really be renamed "model airplanes, cars and trains". Daniel enjoyed playing on the simulated model airplane flight control game and I found some interesting finds with animal anatomy. Also, I now know where to go if I ever want to make a model forest or model city and need real life looking trees.

Sharing Cart

I was bemoaning the lack of a Farmer's Market in Orem when my father-in-law mentioned that instead we have a Sharing Box. Intrigued, I sought it out the next day and found this in the parking lot of the Orem Senior Citizen Center Parking Lot. Who would have thought?

Natural History Museum

I've been wanting to go to the Utah Natural History Museum, and on Monday they had a free day, so I grabbed tickets and took Daniel up to see it. I was impressed with the 5 story museum, it seemed so open and spacious. We enjoyed walking on the roof and seeing the massive display of solar panels. It was also nice to play around with the exhibits and we had a personalized tour of the display of humanoid heads.