Girls' Night Out!

A couple of weeks ago Karina and I went to High School Musical on Ice with our friends Dena & Korin. These girls love HSM and are great friends (the moms are, too!)- what better way to spend a Friday night?!

Here's the finale -

A scene from the talent show of HSM 2

The picnic and sprinkler scene from HSM 2

Sharpay & Ryan from HSM 1. This is just like Karina's Halloween costume.

Sing along with me "High School Musical, celebrate where we come from . . ." (what, you haven't seen the 3rd movie yet?!

Happy Thanksgiving!

The other night we gathered as a family and talked about gratitude, reading this scripture: "Live in thanksgiving daily, for the many mercies and blessings which he doth bestow upon you." (Alma 34:38). Then we counted our blessings. Among them were, "friends, family and electronics" (obviously by Tristan), "animals and homework" (by Karina), "a good job and vacations" (by Jarrett), and "telephones so I can keep in touch with my family" (by me). The list is very long, but ultimately we know that everything we have is a blessing given to us by our Father in Heaven. He has blessed us, indeed.

A special day for Karina

Karina was baptized as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints yesterday. She was so excited and ready for this event! And we are so proud of her and the decision she made to follow the example of Jesus Christ.

Here's part of what she wrote in her new journal:

"Finally I got baptized. The water was really cold. When I was done, me and my mom was really happy. This day is great!"

A friend who came to the baptism commented that Karina was grinning afterwards and giggled as she left the font.

We are thankful to have such a happy, beautiful little girl. We love you, Karina!

Halloween!

Happy Halloween!

Jarrett dressed up for work that day . . .

Jarrett opted for an easy polka-dot pumpkin, mine is the dog.

Tristan's was the skeleton, of course.

Karina carving her kitty pumpkin

Here are the kids in their costumes. Cousin Cyrian came over to trick or treat with us. She's Cindy Lou Who, Karina is Sharpay from HSM, and Tristan is just plain scary!!