At Thanksgiving dinner, he added to the ambience by providing some "relaxing" background music.
All that hard work just wore the poor kid out and he slept through dessert! He's already talking about "Kitmas" and loves to see the Kitmas yites (lights) as we drive through the neighborhood. I have a feeling this is going to be a fun year for him. 
For those of you who live in Utah, you know how the dry air and cold weather combined can wreak havoc on your skin. Well, apparently Alex decided to take matters into his own hands....
"Otion" (lotion) on the face, "otion" in the hair, "otion" just about everywhere. Luckily for me, I was at work so Dad was on clean-up duty.
Props to my nephew and sister for asking me to take his senior pictures. (For the record, I do not proclaim to be anything remotely close to a photographer...I just have a nice camera and sometimes get lucky with a good shot or two...) Anyhow, being a typical 18 year old boy, Erik had no desire to suffer through getting his pictures done by some stranger, and my sister Lorna had no desire to pay for pictures done by some stranger, so they asked me to do it for them. I was more than happy to and had a good time doing it. Turns out, they were actually doing me a favor, because when Steph saw Erik getting his pictures done, she decided she would be ok with letting me do hers. Senior year comes with lots of expenses, and I was thrilled to have the chance to eliminate the cost of pictures off that list. Steph is so photogenic and we were happy with the way they turned out. Here are a few of my faves...
This post is just about a few random goings-on at the Lilly's.....
2) After several years of being a (Kearns)Cougar family, with Steve coaching and Steph playing, it is with sadness I announce that we are now a "broken" family. Steph of course is in her last year at Kearns, and Steve has gone back to his alma mater, the West High Panthers, where he's working and coaching football. Consequently, Alex and I have spent several Friday nights at home because I didn't want to choose which game to go to....sniff sniff. Here is a picture of Steve and Steph showing that Cougars and Panthers can live in the same den in harmony.
3) Last weekend Steph went to the Sadies Hawkins dance. Her date was her good friend Saul. Don't they make a cute pair?
He's been cracking me up these days with some of the things he says. For example, he calls me "Son". Like, he'll walk up to me and say, "What doin', Son?" Or, "here ya go, Son!" He will also often tell me, "Good morning, Sir". Clearly, he has a little gender confusion when it comes to people's titles.
We took these pictures last weekend when we drove up Big Cottonwood Canyon. The colors at the mouth of the canyon were gorgeous. Unfortunately, we drove up a little too far and lost all the color for our "photo shoot". That's ok though, it felt so good to breathe in the fresh mountain air, but it made me a little sad to think that it's probably the last time till next year since there'll probably be snow up there next week. BOOOO!!
