Quick note

Family,

 

Here are some pictures of the highlights of the week.  Bryce was one of the younger brothers in the stake play - Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.  The cowboy song (with Bryce doing a low bass feature) was hilarious and sticks in my mind all day.

 

I gave a lesson in the Gospel Essentials class today - on the Temple.  Here are a couple of the illustrations I used.  We talked about the temple in antiquity including the influence of the Great Temple in Egypt.  Did you know that the Great Temple (what we today call the Great Pyramid) was already 1000 years old when Moses was in Egypt?  Then we talked about what questions people have about the temple and how we can best answer them.  It was fun.

 

Kaaren has been sick with the flu for the last couple of days.  She is now on the mend.

 

It has been raining for 3 days now without stopping.  And it is cold and misty at night and foggy in the mornings. We are into the winter season already.

 

We are remodeling our bathroom - finally.  Our contractor we found for Keizer apartment work is doing it.  Also replacing our windows in the house.  Logan helped me put in the shower pan yesterday.  It was fun.

 

I guess you know that Kaaren is going to New York for a meeting with Amy and a potential large publisher - Scholastic - of children's books.

 

We are looking forward to Thanksgiving this coming week.  Forrest and Kaarina will join the extended Portland Pixton family.

 

I am singing with the Portland Mormon Choir and Orchestra and quite enjoying it.

 

That is all for this evening.  Tired and need to join Kaaren in bed.  We bought a new mattress yesterday and we need to try it out.

 

love,

 

Dad