The Mormons

This morning, our Stake President was featured on the Today Show. Matt Lauer interviewed him about the LDS church. We think he did a nice job. Click here to see his interview.

Look at Lexi

Lexi has recently delved into the exciting world of Mommy & Daddy shoes! Here she is in Daddy's recently shined dress shoes. 

Halloween

This year we attended the Inwood 1st Ward Halloween Party on Saturday, October 29. We dressed Lexi as a black cat since we couldn't justify purchasing a costume for an hour's worth of wearing. She wore cat ears I had purchased a few years ago and let me paint her nose & whiskers with some eyeliner. Although she loved admiring herself in the mirror, she had wiped it off by the time we arrived at the church. Her favorite acitivity by far was the art table where she decorated many a pumpkin, bat & witch hat to be hung on a string for decoration. Here she is with Desmond Jones, a well-dressed race car driver, complete with dirt smudges on his face. 

At the party, the kids went around the halls to all the classrooms to do some Trick-or-Treating. This was a new and most wonderful concept to Lexi. Candy! We gave her a little bag to carry her candy in, but she refused to put her goodies in. She insisted on carrying ALL her acquisitions in her little hands. We just had to get it on film.

The Central Park Carousel

One of Lexi and Mom's favorite outings is to the Carousel in Central Park. This from the Park's website: "Central Park's first carousel was built in 1870 and, according to Park lore, was turned by a blind mule and a horse. . . . Crafted by the Brooklyn firm of Stein and Goldstein in 1908, the Carousel is one of the largest in the United States, with 58 hand-carved, painted horses. Stein and Goldstein were among the foremost carvers of their day and the horses – nearly life-size in the outer ring – are caught rearing or mid-stride with almost fierce reality." This time around, Lexi didn't want me even touching her and requested that I sit on my own horse next to her. This is one of the best smile pictures we have of her.