A Week in the Life

You may or may not have heard about a couple of scrapbooking styles called Project Life and Week in the Life. Project Life takes a picture a day for a year, does some journaling and enjoys the simplicity of it all. Nothing fancy, just chronicling your life. Week in the Life tracks your life for one week, writing what occured at each hour of the day and also causes you to reflect on observations, things overheard, what you're grateful for that day, and the favorite moment, as well as writing down what you ate for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I'm intrigued by both of these because they give a more accurate look at your real life, and I can see that in the future these might be fascinating. So for this week, I am trying Week in the Life. aliedwards.com has a great free download which made it easy for me just to fill out. I'm still working on it until Saturday. I have to remember to take at least a few pictures every day, and here are some from the past week.
The fall colors are all out this week - reds, oranges, golds and browns. I love it. I'm still shocked that we get so many more colors here than we used to get when we lived in Colorado before. Its

just another little blessing that I really do appreciate, like seeing the cattle close by.
How cute are these two? This was taken after Sunday dinner at our house. Always lots of smiles and joy when we are all together.
Dessert was carrot cake. I found this recipe on Pioneer Woman's blog. The key to the moisture - pureeing the carrots in the food processor.
Our temple opened again Oct. 5 after being closed for two months. It was fun to bring our boy back.
MyMike and I decided that there really is no greater joy than taking your children with you to the temple. The spirit is so strong, especially when you go as a family. He and I stood in the Celestial Room and were really drawn to the chandelier and spent about five minutes in a discussion (quietly) about it. Then in church on Sunday a member of the temple presidency came and spoke and at the end talked about the chandelier. What another great blessing!
LittleBuddy's cute pumpkin face he drew. I only made one batch of Rice Krispie treats with the two boxes I bought. The boys ate the rest and enjoyed the Snap, Crackle, and Pop. Actually they just really enjoy eating, and BigBudding needs to gain more weight before he loses a bunch in Brazil, so I'm encouraging him to eat all the healthy calories he wants, and cereal fits into that category at our house.
One thing I have enjoyed is seeing him so into the book that I loved earlier in the year. He's reading Gerald Lund's, "The Undaunted," and has spent much of his spare time this week devouring its pages. Life is good. Cowgirl bought another bargain airfare to come see us after the new year. Algebra is going better this week. LittleBuddy has some really nice friends. Got to keep taking more pictures and recording more. . . so much more easy to be IN real life than to Preserve it.