Though it really is fog from dry ice. One cup had vegetable oil and the other water, I think we were wondering if oil would turn slushy like water does sometimes. It cooled down a lot but did not have any freezing effects. Perhaps there was just not enough dry ice in the cups. We had fun anyhow (this was Halloween-yes, 5 months ago).
This is a piece of a bigger picture. I welcome one and all to guess at what it is. In one week I’ll give the answer, and post a new one. Good luck and may the guessing begin.
Esta es una parte de la foto grande. Hay que adivinar lo que es. En una semana regreso con la respuesta y otra foto. ¡Suerte!
This is a piece of a bigger picture. I welcome one and all to guess at what it is. In one week I’ll give the answer, and post a new one. Good luck and may the guessing begin.
Esta es una parte de la foto grande. Hay que adivinar lo que es. En una semana regreso con la respuesta y otra foto. ¡Suerte!
This last Sunday was the Nauvoo Stake Conference. For those that do not know what that is, twice a year the 11 congregations (branches or wards) in our geographical region (stakes) meet for a conference, Nuavoo happens to be the “center” of our stake. Most people that do not live directly in Nauvoo travel for about an hour to get there, some however drive twice that still. We had a guest speaker this time. Elder Lund, is a very enjoyable speaker. He talked mostly about getting back to basics, and how we tend to over-“schedule” our lives. How we try to do too much stuff, be it projects or clubs or what not. How true it is that when we get right down to the simplicity of life things seem easier to be enjoyed and there is a lot less to distract us from our end goal. I enjoyed his talks. I was however sitting next to my newest nephew on Sunday morning, Skyler. And our personalities being what they are, we interacted a lot, and Ginny and Rick have decided that we are not allowed to sit together anymore.
For fun, I drew faces on my hands. It made him laugh, but the whole time he told me, “Don’t do that” and to “Stop it. That is bad for your skin.” The little boy sitting in front of us saw me and drew on his hand and got in trouble with his mom. Ooopps.
Mr and Mrs hand are begging you to let us sit together again, next time.
Mallory came to stay last weekend with us*. We made her earn her keep. Only we wouldn’t let her wash the dishes.
We surprised her by showing up for her play on Friday night.** Then we went over to see Rick, Ginny, and Skyler for a little bit and played nerts. Being Martin’s birthday, we called to sing him “Happy Birthday”, but poor Ashley had to hear us instead. When we got to Macomb, I gave Mallory about 30 wipes*** to clean the stage make-up off of her face. We got up early the next morning so we could go be time/score keepers for the stake basketball tournament. That was fun, just ask Mallory
. She and I then left Jacob at the house and we went to the pet stores to get me some fish.**** Mallory had never seen Johnny Lingo so I had her watch that as we were trying to get up the motivation to make some bread. It was yummy. And we made some cinnamon rolls too-they were delicious. Good job Mal, I made her do a lot of the work.***** We made lemon-lime pepper chicken, homemade french-fries, and peas for supper. Mallory was in charge****** of the peas, and mostly the fries. And I had her be the taste tester for the Chicken. Oddly enough, all that was left-over were the peas. (I ate them the next day.) We went over to Jacob’s parent’s house and played more nerts. ******* Sunday Mallory helped out in the nursery because our regular teachers were out of town or sick. I hope she had fun in Macomb, even if she did have to sleep on the futon.
This is the yeast, rising for the bread.
Making fries.
Cooking Peas.
While they waited for me to finish cooking the chicken, Jacob gave her a lesson on cymbals.
*Not this last one, the one before it. I am just getting slower at documenting things.
**Martin’s Birthday-the real one, not the one we normally celebrate for him
***So she probably really only used 5 or 6, but you get the idea, there was way too much make-up on her face.
****Yes I finally set the tank up after all the fish died last summer. However, there are only 2 fish left. Sonny and Cher. They look like they will survive. I hope so, I am done with dying fish.
*****It is kind of hard to say we made her do it, she volunteered to do everything.
******We even had her wearing a Chef’s coat.
******You would think we like the game or something.
This is a piece of a bigger picture. I welcome one and all to guess at what it is. In one week I’ll give the answer, and post a new one. Good luck and may the guessing begin.
Esta es una parte de la foto grande. Hay que adivinar lo que es. En una semana regreso con la respuesta y otra foto. ¡Suerte!
This is Geneva at Gavyn’s Birthday party last year.
Upon finishing the last post, I looked at the downtown webcam to see if I could see the snow in the shot. It recaptures a shot every minute. When I opened the window (webcam window) I saw two people standing there holding a sign. I tried to read it, but it was not clear enough. Upon the next capture I saw them there with another sign that says, “We love* U”. I have no idea who they are or who they are talking to, but I liked the sentiment.
*It was not the word love, it was a heart. I tried to use the symbol for a heart, but for some reason this won’t post the shape, in stead it gives me a “?” so I am not sure why it does that.