More pictures

We finally got a camera bag for our camera.  As I was putting everything into the bag and listening to Daniel practice his piano, I decided to see what pictures we had on the camera that hadn't been removed.  I realized I haven't cleared the camera since Christmas.  I found some cute photos of Taylor that I didn't know we had.  I thought I'd share.

I saw someone posed like this and thought it was a neat idea.  So I thought I'd try it.  Taylor is about one week.

She's not that old and apparently I've already failed and figuring out what her needs are.  She's given up on me.

Bath time!

 

 

Taking a snooze!

 Or at least trying to.....

Happy Birthday Taylor!

Taylor came to us on December 18.  She weighed 7 lbs. 12 oz. and was 20 in. long.  We are very excited to have this precious addition in our home.

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Birthday Megan!

Megan had a birthday a few weeks ago.  I've always tried to make a cake of their choosing.  But with my limited abilities in cake decorating, it's getting more difficult for me to make the cake they want.  This year, Megan told me she wanted a My Little Pony cake.  I was determined to figure something out that would please her, but her vision of how she wanted it was beginning more than I knew I would be able to do.  So one day I told her that I would bake the cake and frost the cake and she could decorate the cake.  I didn't realize she wanted to do it with frosting, so I didn't make enough frosting for her to use.  So she just ended up placing the ponies around the cake.

Megan received this umbrella.  She was so excited about it.  Lucky for her, it was raining the next morning.  She and Daniel were outside in the rain before I had a chance to get out of bed.

Halloween

We had a great Halloween month!  We went to Bryan's sisters Halloween party.  Megan made her own mask.

 

We carved pumpkins - I should say the kids carved their own pumpkins.  Daniel knew we would be carving soon and so one day he came up from his room with a drawing of how he would like his pumpkin to look.  Megan didn't come up with a blue print, but she did the carving all on her own.  The only help they got from me or Bryan was cutting the top off and helping to clean the pumpkin out.

 

We topped the Halloween season off on Halloween night with going to a movie and walking around the Oquirrh Mountain Temple.  We saw Dolphin Tale.  That was a great show.  The whole family enjoyed it.  It was only the four of us and two other people in the entire theater.  Halloween's a great day to see a movie if you don't want to be in a place full of people.  The kids wanted to walk around temple before heading home for dinner and bed.

Nebo Loop

The next weekend after 5-mile, we took a trip down to the Nebo Loop.  We stayed at the south end of it near Nephi.  What a perfect time to go and see some Fall leaves.  They were amazing.  We were very glad we got there when we did.  Each day we could see that the leaves were changing and they were beginning to lose their brilliant colors.

 

 

 

We drove the Nebo loop a couple of different times.  Elevation was about 9000 feet.  My parents had stopped by about a week before we went camping to 5-mile and brought us a movie, The Long, Long Trailer with Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez.  This movie was quite comical.  We thought about it a lot while driving this loop.  However, in them movie, they only climbed to 8000 feet.  But they were pulling their long trailer.  We left ours at the bottom and just took a drive.

Along the loop we stopped at many of the different lookouts.

Devil's Kitchen also referred to as a mini Bryce Canyon.

 

 

 

On another occasion through the loop, we stopped at the Payson Lakes and had lunch.

Beaver Dam overlook.

 

Utah Lake Overlook

Mt. Nebo Overlook

When we were hanging out at the campsite, the kids entertained themselves with the many leaves that had already fallen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

What a great way to end the camping season!

5-mile pass

Bryan finished up with Fall ball and so we were finally about to take the new trailer out.  We only had one night that we could go, so we found a place close by.  We went along the five mile pass and found a nice place to camp for the night.  It was a perfect place for Bryan and Daniel to enjoy some shooting.  We took it pretty easy on the trip.  We didn't worry about a fire.  We just cooked our food inside.  However, due to the fact that we have an oven, I made an apple pie while the boys did some shooting right outside the trailer.  YUMMY!

 

 

Self-Serving Elitism

I have long thought that the high barriers to entry in the legal profession were really only serving the attorneys themselves.  But I couldn't have articulated the thought as well as this article from the New York Times.

The basic idea here is that an open law profession would lower prices, increase consumer awareness of dishonest/incompetent practitioners and allow many who cannot overcome the barriers to enter the practice of law to do so...after all, Abraham Linclon and Clarence Darrow, both recognized as some of the finest lawyers and civil rights advocates this country has produced, did not graduate from an ABA accredited law school nor pass a bar exam.