Pennies

Today upon returning to my car, I found pennies littering the asphalt, hidden among fallen leaves. Of course, I immediately stopped to pick them up, and penny after penny I felt richer. By the end, I excitedly presented them to a bored Lana exclaiming, "Lana, we have like 15 cents here! Do you know what we can get with that?"
She looked at me with that same, deadpan expression.
"You're right," I confessed, "not much at all." But I couldn't help a smile returning to my face as I slipped those 15 pennies into my wallet, feeling just a little bit richer.
Thank you to whomever dropped all those pennies. If it wasn't intentional, I'm sorry I didn't hunt you down to return them. But like Lana implied, 15 cents isn't much. But they made my day.

Lana keeps us busy!

You know that "KEEP OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN" label that's on EVERYTHING?
Yeah... that isn't going so well.

 

I've said it before. I don't "lose" my keys, the baby steals them. Proof!

Another chore that takes exponentially longer to complete than it used to.

Mystery solved: THAT'S where all our money is going... (She did this while I was posting picture previous.) Sigh.

Look what Lana did the in five minutes I wasn't looking. She just couldn't figure out how to get out.

Halloween 2012

Halloween 2012 - Trujillo Style

Halloween is tomorrow, but I think we've had a few adventures worth telling already.

First, we took Lana to a pumpkin patch and attempted to get one of those cutesy pics of baby-on-a-pumpkin. Here's the best we got:

I think she was a little confused about why she had to sit on pumpkins. I guess I can't blame her, really. Why DO we make babies do this pose?


Anyway, then we had lots of fun CARVING the pumpkins. Here I am, intensely focused on making mine beautiful.

See? BEAUTIFUL!

 This was Anthony's pumpkin original:

I carved a witch for Lana, and all together they looked pretty good!

Ooh, Pretty!!

Then, we had fun dressing up for our ward's Halloween party. Can you guess what famous trio we are supposed to be?

 We even won "best costume" award! Cool!

Today, however, was our Halloween letdown. We learned an important lesson about properly storing beautifully carved pumpkins. Apparently, you are NOT supposed to leave them inside your nicely warmed house, or THIS will happen:

Our poor pumpkins!

 Next year.... next year we'll get this Halloween thing right!

Love to all, Anthony, Hannah, and Lana