Laughter: The Best Medicine

Kendra can always make her sister laugh. It's the funnest thing for us to watch and we finally taped it for all to enjoy.

During our scripture reading tonight we asked Kendra, "Don't you want to live with Heavenly Father and Jesus again?" To which she replied, "No, I just want to go to Disneyland." We have failed as parents!!

Earlier today Kendra went to a friend's birthday party. She got to ride a horse!

For Halloween Megan was a bunny and Kendra was Tinkerbell. I didn't post a picture of Kendra in her costume because it's the same costume she wore at Disneyland. We only went trick-or-treating to a few of our neighbors. When Kendra learned we were at our last house she said, "We need to go to some more houses." I told her that this was the last one, and she replied, "but I need some more candy."

The Ocean

I wasn't going to travel all the way to California and NOT see the beach. We took off one afternoon to spend a couple of hours in Long Beach. It was perfect timing. It was warm, sunny, and beautiful. The fog rolled in just as we left.

Mark and his girls walking the beach.



This took some coaxing. Kendra is still hesitant when it comes to new situations. The first step was to take off her shoes in the sand. Then it was to get her to walk on the wet sand. To get her in the water we began with our backs toward the ocean and dug our feet into the wet sand. The tide came up a little and got her. She realized it wasn't scary but fun, so began to play in the water.

Building a sand castle.


Kendra made "sleeping beauty's castle." Notice the beautiful trash in her castle. I am disappointed that people don't take care of the beaches. There was quite a bit of trash on the beach and in the water.


Funny picture of Meggers.