I can't recall if I mentioned it earlier but Kelly and I started a Family Home Evening (FHE) group. For those of you that are not familiar with "Mormon" culture, FHE is the time that is set aside on a weekly basis for a family to spend time together. This is typically on a Monday night. There are no church meetings and families are encouraged to spend time together. Activities vary from week to week but there is always a short gospel lesson and a focus on the family. Although family home evening should begin and end with prayer, it is not intended to be a formal class.
FHE can be difficult to manage if you are single or a married couple without children. So Kelly and I started a FHE group for couples that were in a similar familial situation. You can see a picture of our group in the first picture and if you look really close you can see Kelly's new hair.
Since it was close to Halloween, we decided to have some fun and carve pumpkins for our activity this week. I have to admit that I wasn't thrilled at the idea of being up to my elbows in pumpkin guts for most of the night. Boy was I wrong. We had a blast together, helping each other out and making some really strange pumpkins. I went for a traditional Halloween scene. It is the pumpkin on the far left, with wolves and the moon. Kelly's is a bit harder to see but she carved an aquarium scene that looks much better in the light than it does in the dark. You miss all the small details. Lindsey carved a cat sitting in the window, a very nice detail. Seth and Daniel carved the small pumkin that is smiling. Kimberly carved the white ghost/ghoul/goblin thing, very scary. And Seth carved a very nice Transformers Autobot, very nice.
No real updates on our adoption adventure. We continue to search/wait for a birthmother. So we keep up the faith and hope something will happen soon.
-M
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