Several years ago in the spring my sweet mom started planting a bunch of pumpkins in part of her garden. Over the summer they grow and eventually overtake a large bank of dirt. Not being one to be satisfied by just big smooth orange carving pumpkins, she planted several fun varieties with textures and bumps and colors. We’ve made sure to keep that going over the year. Today it was time to harvest.
“Dad! I want some ice water! And the big iPad with a PAW Patrol train show!” Okay Elle, as you wish. I then took a 90 minute nap. When I woke up she was still there, and Emmett had joined her.
At my recent trip to Dallas to attend EyeCon, after the final CE session on Sunday I had the wonderful opportunity to meet Dr. Askew, a sweet traveling Optometrist. We were talking to her about a personal website when I realized that she didn’t have an office for us to send a photographer to. So, I decided since she was looking fantastic already, I should just pull her aside right there in the conference hall and snap a few portraits for her that we can use in her website. This is just one of many great ones!
After a week or so of butt-cold weather, fall came back and is doing a great job redeeming itself. We had a nice 70ยบ afternoon to play outside in. We (by we, I mean the kids) raced, played in the grass, and did some swinging.
This past weekend I had the chance to go to Dallas (specifically Irving) to attend the TOA EyeCon and work on signing up new clients for my little business 460. It was a lot of fun, very succesful, and well worth it!
Our hotel was right alongside this canal setup that was really quite cool. Sadly I only had a chance to wander down around it in the dark on our first night there, while it was raining a little bit. But that’s alright, the pictures turned out pretty great!
Yeah, that’s a mouthful. One evening during our trip to Japan in April 2017 we went over to the Roppongi area of Tokyo to see the Tokyo Temple for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, just a few minutes walking from Hiro-o Subway station. Across the street is a fantastic park that we just happened to be taking a break in during the sunset. The colors that evening were incredible.
Three Years Old. Elle is such a sweetheart, and so smart! She can speak so well, knows lots of words and nuances of English. She loves her characters and her colors. Ever since Emmett’s birthday in August she’s been looking forward to her birthday, asking us about it all the time, telling us what presents she was going to get. For a long while it was going to be a pink drum, but later she changed it to a pink guitar.
We celebrated with a big family party tonight and served a proper BBQ meal with 3 kinds of meats, funeral potatoes, salad, carrots, and a lot of BBQ sauce. It was so good! This was my first attempt at brisket and I am quite happy with how it turned out. I will definitely be doing one again soon! Now that it’s been done, I’m not so scared. But, enough about smoking…
A tropical storm rolled in earlier this week that has been dumping buckets of rain over the past few days. It’s been so needed! Last night the temparature dropped a little bit, and that rain turned into a little hint of snow on the mountain tops.
