Random thoughts.

We had our first snow of the season on Friday! Yeah. I didn't realize just how much I miss the colder weather (changing seasons). In Atlanta it stays pretty warm throughout the year. I am excited to be in Boston for the fall. I started singing with Parker 'Once there was a snowman' when we saw the snow Friday. As I am typing this up it is slushing (lots of rain but fragments of wet snow). Oh how I miss the snow. One thing that I've been meaning to write about for awhile was common license plates in Massachusetts. I thought that we were pretty rare being from Georgia (the South). I mean you just can't too much further South than Georgia. I was wrong in my first impressions of being a rarity. I can't tell you how many Florida license plates I have seen up here. They are EVERYWHERE! I have to wonder what brings the Floridan's up this way or if there is some kind of market for Florida cars.
The other day I was making dinner and singing 'the wheels on the bus go up and down, up and down' when Parker stopped me and said 'no mommy the people on the bus go up and down.' Oh my, I didn't realize I had been singing it wrong. It's a good thing he was there to catch me. We made it a game later on to make sure Parker was still paying attention. Lincoln is increasing his vocabulary. He likes to say 'yeah', 'ba,' and I think he even got out a 'dada' today. He ate an animal cracker during church. He gets so excited to see any of us after we have been away for two minutes.
I am very grateful to have the temple so close to us at this time in our lives. I hope that we will always be able to attend, no matter how far away (6 hrs. in Portugal). The temple keeps me happy.