Helping Michelle

Michelle had a lighting assignment for her photography class, so Mom and I helped her get the pictures she needed. The silhouettes were the most fun to do. Here are some of our favorite results:

Happy Thanksgiving

Our house is the party house again. Isaac, Heather, and the kids are here for the week of Thanksgiving. Micah and I got to help Isaac make pumpkin cheesecake.

Dad and the boys watching WALL-E.

Our family enjoying Thanksgiving dinner, we have much to be thankful for.

Racing Against Hunger

Thanksgiving morning Isaac, Heather, and I participated in our first 5k run, to benefit the Visalia Emergency Aid. We got there early because we thought the race started at 7am, but it really didn't start until 8am so we had awhile to wait. There were just over 700 runners. The race started out with some starts and stops, but once we got going we kept a steady pace. The weather was great, cool but not cold. It sprinkled on us a little, just enough to notice. It was an exciting way to start the day, although the sudden stop at the end to keep us in order made me feel sick. Overall, I wouldn't mind doing it again next year.

Another Ticket

I am not a spontaneous person; you all know that. However, I suddenly find myself with another plane ticket, this time to London. I have wanted to study abroad for some time and was looking at the Fresno State website and found information about the London Semester. It looked like a good program and the classes offered fulfill the upper division general education I still need, so I talked to my family and was planning to go to an informational meeting scheduled for Sunday the 16th. However, when I called to get more information about the meeting, I found out it wasn't really a meeting, they were having a weekend orientation for the students going. I went and then signed up for the program on Monday and have been working on getting paperwork and money turned in and getting a plane ticket! So, I am scheduled to be in London from January 8 to April 4, 2009 with 17 or 18 other Fresno State students. It is crazy, but very exciting!

A Calvin Crest Wedding

Heidi and Phillip were married at Calvin Crest on November 8 and it was beautiful. We got to stay in Mountain View for the weekend and it made it feel like a party all weekend. I loved being up at camp and getting to help decorate and take pictures. It was fun to hang out with the bridesmaids and the Larson sisters (Heidi's mom and aunts), plus see so many friends at the wedding itself. So here's a bunch of pictures from the weekend:

The rehearsal

Rehearsal dinner

Yoga the morning of the wedding

The girls getting ready

After the wedding

Haircuts

Sunday morning