Thanksgiving

We spent Thanksgiving in Gifford this year. On Thanksgiving morning Dad, Ring, and I took a brisk walk before we all went up to Aunt Helen's for dinner. We watched some football and played the board game "Battle of the Sexes" after lunch.

It snowed on Thursday night so we went for a horseback ride on Friday morning. It was cold but beautiful.

We rounded out our weekend with some games of Apples to Apples, dominoes, and Password and went to the theaters to watch Flushed Away.

We're very thankful for our family and had a great time with those we were able to be with.

Brandon & Allison's Wedding

My college roommate Brandon Sheltrown married Allison Marrs yesterday. It was a great wedding and we're so happy for them! The ceremony was at Eastwind Community Church and the reception was held in the Penthouse of the C.W. Moore Building downtown.






























After the wedding Stephanie and I took in Opera Idaho's presentation of the Barber of Seville at the Morrison Center. Like Die Fledermaus it was self-satirical and fun--not stuffy like a lot of people expect opera to be.

Since it was all in Italian there was a screen above the actors translating their lines. Some of the translations were especially amusing too ("she could give a seminar in working the system"). I'm sure they were a oft-used idioms in Rossini's Italy. ;-)


Stephanie has been thinking about the horn solo from the overture all day and is in the study playing it now. :)

Halloween

On Halloween, our friends Adam & Tiffany Greyson invited us and another couple to their house to play games and hand out candy to the trick-or-treaters. We went in costume--dressed as Adam & Tiffany!














Adam is a great cook (and made delicous chilli for dinner), so I wore a chef's hat marked with some of his trademark sayings. Tiffany loves cooking and is an electrical engineer at HP, so Stephanie wore her apron and a little circuit board necklace. (Tiffany's also pregnant, so Stephanie stuffed a pillow under her apron.)

We took the new game that the Kristi, Kyla, Kim, and Elissa bought us--Apples to Apples. It was a big hit!