post #3 for today!!!

when i forward things from my phone, i can't figure out how to get them all into one post... so today you get three!!!  nora found some leftover buckets (they were party favors at her birthday party) the other day.  she loves carrying them around and putting things into them.  her daddy taught her how to put it on her head... so she demonstrated for us on the way home from church.

some new things.  i drop something (or she does) and she says "oh noooooo".  she knows it's Jesus' birthday this month (but maybe not that it means anything yet!  we are working on that!!)  she knows exactly where i leave something (like cookies or snacks) and walks right over to them to get some more.  she now asks to color.  she knows a TON of animal sounds (i think we did a post about that once...)

i have been trying for awhile to get our christmas pictures done.  i knew what i wanted...  so, saturday seemed to be a good day.  david and i both had off and the time.  a friend was going to take them, and he was free.  so, i was determined.  i did, however, neglect to check the forecast.  they were predicting our "winter" storm.  (meaning rain and wind)  so, when we got up on saturday, we noticed it looked a little foreboding.  there were large clouds in the sky.  but, we are 20 minutes from the ocean, so the weather can be quite different there.  

we planned to take pics at 3pm... after a good nap for nora, and my christmas events were out of the way!  it rained quite a bit that morning, but the sky didn't look so bad around 2:30.  we got in the car and it started pouring!  but, i was hopeful.  so we drove to the beach.  it rained the whole way.  we were crossing the bridge to coronado island, when it was suddenly clear and not raining.  i decided to press on!  we got to the beach, and were waiting for our friend, when there was a two minute downpour!  i got to see the most beautiful rainbow!  then it rained again, for another few minutes.  

our friend arrived a few minutes later, and we had perfect (but windy) weather for our pictures.  here are some of nora playing afterwards....  

as an aside... today it is raining horribly and i even saw snow last night on the mountains!!!  it's finally winter here!!!