Family Home Evening

For Family home evening we went to the temple a few Monday's ago to listen to the music program and walk around the temple grounds. Here are a few pictures.



Aurora wanted to get a closer look at baby Jesus.
I love the temple in the background.

Playing in the SNOW!!!

Can you imagine, snow in San Diego? Poway community center every year sets up a life size version of the Candyland game. Along with that they also had snow, lots of snow. We took Aurora up there and she had fun playing in it.

She got to see Santa again and meet Rudolph.

The apron is a Home Depot kids apron, they wrote the kids' names on them and helped them paint a candle stick holder.

Here is Aurora trying to make a snow angel. The cold did not both her at all.

Santa

We took pictures with Santa on Saturday. Aurora loves to give Santa a hug and tell him what she wants for Christmas, but when it comes to sitting on his lap she just in not quite sure about that. She could not wait to get a candy cane though.

Aurora's research study

Two weeks ago Aurora was able to participate in a research study up at UCSD. It was a study on the bond between a mother and child. As part of the study they took my picture and the picture of another female that Aurora did not know and showed them to her on a TV screen. She had to wear a special cap to monitor her brain activity to see how it reacted to the pictures. Here is a picture of Aurora wearing the hat. She was so good about it. They had to put the gel that is used in ultrasounds into the little white circles in the cap to get a better picture. Her hair was so gross after, but she had fun and sat still the whole time.

What Comes after X?

Friday night Aurora was playing in the bathtub and singing her ABC's. She got to X and asked me what comes next, so I simply said "Y". She gave me one of her looks and said "because I forgot Mommy, what comes after X." She just cracks us up.

Getting ready for Thanksgiving

Yesterday while we were getting ready to leave for Thanksgiving dinner Aurora disappeared and was very quiet. I found her in the bathroom and she was putting on makeup because she "wanted to be pretty like mommy". Luckly she did not open any of my makeup so she did not get any on, but it sure was cute to watch.

The fires

During the fires we were in a good, safe place. The fires were nowhere near us. These pictures were taken on Monday 10/22 from the airplane as we approached San Diego. All of the grey is smoke from the fires.