Four months

It's been four months since my sweet sister Angela passed away. I love her and miss her.

Cooper's Rock

To celebrate Jason's last Saturday before classes started, we went to Cooper's Rock State Forest. We went with a couple families from our ward, and Clara enjoyed playing with the two little boys. The forest was beautiful and will be spectacular in the autumn. The kids tried to fish for a little while, we had a picnic lunch and then went to Cooper's Rock. It's a gigantic rock/boulder that overlooks the valley.

Cupcakes

Sarah and Clara made cupcakes for Grandpa's birthday, which we frosted to look like flowers. We had the party at the pool and sang happy birthday while the thunder clouds rolled in above us. Luckily we got home before the storm broke.

Transplants

We made the big move to West Virginia last week and have had a busy week. Jason's orientation started today and his first day of class starts next week. We have gotten mostly unpacked and somewhat organized. Clara is more than happy to see her toys again and keeps exclaiming, "I've never seen THAT toy/book before!" Our ward seems like a BYU ward, with lots of transitional, college/dental/medical school-aged families in it. I think we'll like it here!

The Evergreen State

A few weeks ago we went to visit Jason's family in Washington, where we had a wonderful vacation. Clara loved picking blueberries, strawberries and eventually raspberries from the garden. She even saw a rabbit in Grandma's garden! She loved telling us about that for days.





Thoroughly enjoying Woodland Park Zoo.

Reading with Papa, a.k.a. Patches the Clown. Ever since she found out that Papa used to be a clown, she thinks that every clown is Papa.

Grandma bought a vast quantity of bubbles and sidewalk chalk, which Lily and Clara had lots of fun with. Clara especially likes us to lay down and draw chalk outlines around our bodies. Hmm... (At the bottom of the post is a video of Clara and her bubbles)




Somehow these daisies made it into several pictures. Doesn't Jason look so sweet?

"Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come." -Rabindranath Tagore

"Let us accustom ourselves to regard death as a form of life which we do not yet understand." -Maurice Maeterlinck

The Missionary!

Allison left for her mission last week, to the Indonesia Jakarta Mission. She was super excited and I'm happy to have a missionary to write!