October Highlights

I know. I'm really behind on blogging. I love to do it, but time just goes by so quickly. I'll try to summarize the month with some photos of our highlights. We had a great month, mostly because of our new twelve-year-old deacon. He had a great birthday, complete with a football/pizza party in our backyard with 13 friends and a field trip to the Chabot Science Center. He was ordained to the Aaronic Priesthood and was surprised by a visit from Grandma and Grandpa Carling who drove all the way to be there for that special day. That made the birthday weekend truly fantastic. This is Brandon blowing out his twelve candles (can you believe we are old enough to have a twelve-year-old?), Brandon as quarterback of his team at the party, and Brandon and Josh discussing the race for space between the Americans and Russians at the space museum. We even got to see a tube of borsch that the Russian astronauts took into space. Yummm!

This is our family home evening activity--making Halloween treats. The gluten-free sugar cookies were awesome. Of course, Brandon and I haven't had the real thing for a long time, so maybe they were terrible. Everyone had a great time, though.

This is the San Francisco Bay, about a block away from where Brian works. It is beautiful. The people at work who live in the city walk along here to catch the ferry to go home after work. The kids got to visit Dad at work yesterday and do a little trick-or-treating around the office. Afterward they had lunch with Dad. Everybody at work has been hearing about these kids for about six years, so they were thrilled to meet them finally. They were a huge hit and got smothered with candy. The kids had a ball.

More Halloween pictures to come...