A bike ride

July 23, 2012

Dear Family,

For Family Night we went on a bike ride.  The weather in Santa Fe is perfect and I love being outside here.  It was 120 degrees in Nevada this week.  Yuck!  I don't miss that at all.

Atticus rode on his scoot bike the whole way and he kept up really well.

Clara learned how to ride her bike the day after we moved to Santa Fe and she rides it like a champ now.  The kids ride their bikes almost everyday in front of our house.

These two cutie pie sisters have been the best of friends this summer.  They always wear matching clothes and Nora even wears Clara's old frames so that it looks like they both have glasses.  Oh my goodness, please keep being friends like you are now, it makes me so very happy!

Papa bought Clara a bike helmet since she learned how to ride her bike.

She picked it out herself.  Hotpink, butterflies and leopard print... that's my Clara.

Love you all.

Germs are scary.

April 02, 2011

Dear Jonas,

The other night Papa gave the Family Night lesson.  He talked about proper hygiene and germs.  He showed you slides of different bacteria and pictures of diseases that can occur if we're not careful.  Pictures like this:

Necrotizing Fasciitis (aka Flesh Eating Bacteria)

It was a great lesson, you all were very intrigued and he got the point across quite well, but oh my goodness.  Those pictures were disturbing.  So much so that you couldn't go to sleep that night because you were too scared.  You kept thinking you felt something crawling on you, or you would ask me to come in and examine a bump on you, wondering if it was a germ.

Poor boy.  Hope it didn't scar you for life.

I love you Jo bug.  Mama