Visiting Alex

We had a great visit with Alex and his family this weekend. It was fun to see how he has enlarged his patio and added beautiful stone steps down to his Japanese Garden. He also showed us the Rosetta Stone program he us using to learn Japanese. We would like to visit Japan and perhaps live their for a while.



On Saturday, we went for a drive into the mountains to see the beautiful fall color. At the summit we looked down over the mountain into the huge Kennecott Copper mine. We also stopped in the woods to take pictures of the kids in the leaves. They tried to catch the leaves as they fell. Lanette loved running through the crunchy leaves. They all collected handfuls of bright leaves in all colors to take home.

Alex and Lanette made us many delicious healthy meals. It 's always fun to eat at their house! I should have taken picture of the food because it always looks so beautiful.

We played some games, danced a little DDR, and watched a movie. On Sunday we went to church with them. This kids showed off their reading skills. Aedin is reading, "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe." A pretty thick book for a 7 yr-old. Little 4 yr-old Windrey was sounding out beginner books, and she can also sound out almost any word in the scriptures! Aedin told me that she recently sounded out the work, "covenant." He was quite proud of her. They are both very good readers.

Lanette said that recently Aedin has been sizing girls up as future wives. Lanette was telling one parent about it, and he said, "No, Aedin needs to marry one of my girls." A pretty nice compliment.