October



Brandon had a wonderful coach, but not so wonderful year...they were a young team playing against old teams (age wise). At this point the age range was 13-17. The majority of boys on Brandon's team were 12-13, and the remaining teams all needed to shave (ok, not 100 % true), but they were much phyiscally much bigger, which made for some very disproportionate mismatched games. They tried their best, but it was not much fun.





Brian coached Andrew's team this year. These bright orange shirts threw the sensors in my camera for a loop. They had fun, another year in patience on Brian's end. We've found there are a lot of kids who just can't pay attention or listen, and they are hard to have on a team.





Matthew played with Korbin and Brian J. coached their team. Matthew and Korbin just like to play together, they have fun together no matter what they are doing.



Life on the sidelines... having three games on one day makes for long days... Most of Matthew's have been on Friday night which has helped some.





You can see the temple going up from the soccer fields.. the steel frame is just visible at the bottom of the crane.



Brandon was selected as Student of the Month for Mr. Amerson's class in October.

One last moment to jot down for posterity... the Primary program. Zachary's first Primary Program. First, we weren't certain if he would even go up. But he did. There he was on the first row at the front of the podium with his finger stuck up his nose for the majority of the program. He has an odd habit of picking his nose when he isn't sure about something. Then to top it off, he decided the chair next to him looked better. So when the girl next to him stood up, he slid over. Of course, he would choose the one girl who is not going to let him get away with it. Brawl on the front row by the nose picker, Zachary.

Fall Break: BYU...heading home





We stoppped at the Dinosaur Museum on the BYU campus, which I had never been to. I was impressed with what they had, and I mentioned that fact to one of the palentologists working there, along with the fact that I had never been even after living in Provo for 5.5 years. He took us in the back and showed us all the shelves of bones and casts they had in the warehouse. There were probably an additional two-three shelving untis beyond what the picture shows on each side. It was an impressive collection. They also let the boys use some of the tools to chisel away the sand from a section they were working on.

Stopping in at Dawns office. Zach remembered she had a candy dish, it was the first thing he looked for.



The newest Dr. Teuscher in the mathematics department.




Its been 18 years since we met here...probably a more appropriate picture would have been down at Helaman Halls!




The leaves were just barely starting to change



One of our many stops headed home just south of Page where you can see the start of the Grand Canyon-- a huge crack in the earth






Through Matthew's Eyes



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I like his closeup of the window at the top of the conference center



You'll notice many of Matthew's pictures have water in them.



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Generally we see the Temple in the Reflecting Pool, not the JS Building



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I like how Zachary is in the picture (im sure it was intentional :-)) to give a perspective of how small everything looks from the top of the COB. It really gives you the dollhouse perspective.

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Through Brandon's Eyes



I think we were all amazed at the size of this painting in real life




This persepective makes the podium look so small



Ezra T. Benson ( the boys great-great-great grandfather)



One of my favorites Brandon took





A cool perspective of the Church Office Building





Doors on the SLC Temple




He must have something about looking up




Andrew never has batteries in his camera due to his numerous self portraits and endless reviewing of his pictures. He ended up with my camera for most of the day.




An appropriate picture of Zachary, his hands were in every fountain or body of water he could find.



John Taylors watch. brandon was captivated by all of the actual artifacts he has read about over the years.

On an old SLC plot map we found where Ezra T. Benson's home was, so Brandon wanted to drive past and see what was stading there now. This is the place out my window.

Through Andrew's Eyes

I think they all had a picture of the podium in real life

Many of Andrew's pictures of pictures had closeups of the weaponry

Andrew had many shots of lights, floors, tour guides....

This was Andrew's best composed picture

Water

Door handles on SLC Temple

I know it wasn't intentional, but I liked the subtle sun rays

A replica of the Angel Moroni which is placed on top of the Temples. We have been anticipating the day when they place the Angel Moroni on our Temple.