October Recap

In October, Brent and I flew to Los Angeles to attend my Grandma Sheranian's memorial service. The burial service was at Forest Lawn in Glendale, CA. It was a beautiful, sunny day and the short service was wonderful. The next day, the memorial service was held at the Westwood Chapel-- the building where I grew up going to Church. It couldn't have been a better memorial. It was well attended by friends and family and all the talks paid honest tribute to my grandma's life of service. 

Because my grandparent's home is a stone's throw from the L.A. Temple (quite literally--if you have a good arm), Brent and I took the opportunity to enjoy the good weather and walk around the grounds.  (And I believe this is the first picture of my pregnant belly to appear on this blog. I haven't avoided having pictures taken of me or anything. I'm just not into documenting my belly week by week. Here I am at 30 weeks.)

While we were on the temple grounds we heard a loud CRAAAAAAAAACK! THUD!!!! We turned around to see a main branch of this huge, beloved tree on the ground. When we got a closer look it appeared that another main branch had recently weakened, fallen, and already been hauled away. There were cones and caution tape around the tree-- as if the grounds crew knew this next branch was about to go. The crazy thing was, the perimeter they set was exactly enough room for the branch to fall. If there had been anyone around who had ignored the caution tape, they could have been crushed! 

I have always loved this tree-- which sits on the northeast corner of the temple lot--and so it makes me sad to see it go. It is a favorite spot of brides and grooms to get their picture taken, and now it will most certainly need to be removed. Just look at that gash! I can't believe we just happened to be there when it happened.  

While staying at my parents house, we took some family pictures. So here is a cute shot of me and Brent. Any guesses on what the baby will look like?

And here's another belly shot. I'm all about low-key-throw-it-together-two-seconds-before costumes. So I put on Brent's orange shirt and cut a jack o' lantern face out of construction paper and taped it on. :-) (This is at our Primary Trick or Treat activity. Instead of doing trunk or treat, we decorated doors in the halls and had them trick or treat room to room.)

The main event not pictured here was moving apartments. We LOVE our new place, and I'll post pictures soon!