Monkey Boy

This week we've had FANTASTIC weather. The temperature hovered in the mid-70s and the autumn sun was out it all its glory. On Thursday Chelsea took Dylan to the zoo--it was the perfect weather for it--and she generously shared her photos with me. You can see more of their zoo trip on her blog (that was a link). Thanks, Chelsea!!

TWO TERRIFYING WORDS....

SCOUTS and GRAVEYARD
You don't normally want to see those two words together in a sentence. But our scouts are not just ANY scouts (and our graveyard is not just ANY graveyard).
Sure, the leaves are still falling, but good hard work, hot cocoa and doughnuts make anything look better!

the girls got in on the action....you can see they were really sweating:)..

And even OBI WAN pulled his weight!!

BYU: Fine Traditions

Entering LaVell Edwards Stadium for the BYU-UNLV game yesterday, I was struck by what fine traditions we have at "the" BYU:

Of friendliness and service:

Of excellence in perfomance:

And good ol' family values:

Contrast this to the apparent traditions of the UNLV Rebels--

Support for the team (see the roaring fan club, unfortunately most of the cars I saw yesterday in Provo with Nevada license plates had BYU fans and bumperstickers on them):

Of ??? (is the UNLV player trying to pick the BYU guy's pocket?)

Of ??? (um, the mascot is the Rebel, not the Devil, and PS, don't all those black guys take offense at the whole "Rebels" thing?)

And lastly, there seems to be some kind of UNLV tradition of long hair:

OK, I guess that last one must be a Vegas issue, not just UNLV....

Its the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!

Last night after scouts I took the kids to a neighbor's house to pick pumpkins. They've got a pretty big patch and we found all kinds of fun things. I think this one is the "Great Pumpkin," we didn't pick it so it can do all of its good deeds on Halloween.

First snow of the season...

Saturday morning we awoke to something pretty outside (and an extremely cute surprise in our bed (Dylan).

If you look closely, you can see snowflakes scurrying past the window. Look at the reflection in the bottom right corner of this photo!

In honor of the new snow (and freezing cold bedroom) we decided to go ahead and crank up the gas fireplace--seems weird to have it running this early in the season!!

NOW, its really too bad we had to get up and get going!! I am determined that next time the snow falls on Saturday I'm staying in BED!!

Another "classic" scouting moment...

"Don't worry, its dead..."

6th Grade Project-- Ancient Egypt

Today I went down to the grade school to see the 6th Grade Ancient Egypt Exposition. Maddy's project, a diorama of the Giza Plateau (below, 2 photos), was FANTASTIC. You can see the Great Sphinx below, right in front of one of the pyramids (white because "back then" they were covered in limestone).
Here you can see the smaller Pyramids of the Queens. She did a great job. Her project really stood out.

Her classmates also did great, there were a lot of sphinxes. Take a gander...(Like the sticky note?)

Dylan's favorite (SURPRISE, SURPRISE!!)

A favorite of mine...

And another one that I really liked: