In early October we drove up to Utah for a week of fun stuff.
Day 1 we saw Temple Square. As always, there were brides and grooms posing by the Salt Lake Temple (like in the background of this picture).
The church administration building opened the 26th floor 2 weeks before we arrived for visitors to look out across Salt Lake City. It was a great view and the elevator was FAST!
The Temple Square grounds were alive with flowers. Lenora was having fun pulling me around to different flowers and posing. This was a great shot...
We also visited both visitor centers and the pioneer museum, as well as the cafe at the Joseph Smith Memorial building. It was really good food.
Benjamin was so tired after our first day that he actually fell asleep while eating a huge chocolate chip cookie on the way back to Aunt Robin's.
Day 2 we went to BYU for lunch with Camille and to see some of Dawnette's favorite professors. It happened to be homecoming week and there were all kinds of things going on at campus.
Day 3 we went to Thanksgiving Point to the Dinosaur musuem. The kids loved it, though Benjamin was a little timid around some of the meat eaters that were posed as though they were ready to eat an unsuspecting visitor.
Lenora on the other hand was getting a kick out of it, such as almost being eaten by the great white.
Saturday we had blue pancakes at the homecoming parade and wore our BYU shirts. Later on we went bowling at the Wilkinson Center. Lenora and Benjamin used these ramps to roll the bowling balls.
Benjamin insisted on carrying the balls to the ramp. He did pretty good until he grabbed a 16 pound ball accidentally and almost dropped it on his foot.
Sunday we had fun going to Megan and Brent's baby blessing and Peter's homecoming talk.
We hung out all day at Craig and Jennifer's to eat Sloppy Joe's and play the "Buzz Word" game. Benjamin had his first encounter with snow (yes, it was snowing that morning) and was eating up the attention he got from Camille and Marshall.
Dawnette took Lenora and Benjamin to the science museum just before school started. Benjamin's favorite booth was the nose that sneezes back all of the pollen (balls) that you throw into it.
Benjamin still looks small on our couch, but he is growing out of all of clothes, especially his pants and shoes.
His hair was out of control again so this time Dawnette tried her own beautician skills and turned a pretty good cut!
Lenora still loves to throw on a leotard before and after school. When her friend Katie came to play last week they decided to put on some dance music and change their costumes between each song of their performance. Bravo!
When we move our pictures from our camera to the computer, we are sometimes met with a few suprises. It is funny to see Lenora's perspective (literally) through the pictures she takes.
Here are a couple of silly poses that she took of herself and Benjamin.
Earlier this month Lenora had a 2 week bout with salmonella and 104 temperature spikes. Thank heavens for her wonderful doctor who was able to diagnose the problem and thank goodness for her strong little body that was able to fight off the sickness so well.
Lenora is back to her creative self and Dawnette is relieved that the war is passed and grateful to be sleeping through the night again.
