The kids and Marlene went to Pumpkinland and had great time. Here are some pictures.

See Marlene’s post about Pumpkinland.

Then we also took some pictures of the kids before they went trick-or-treating. Marlene did an amazing job making Henry’s Frog Prince costume. She always makes one costume at least per year. Oscar wanted to be a Knight and Lily was Cinderella. You can’t see it in all of the pictures but Lily was devasted when I said she needed to wear her coat. It was going to ruin her outfit; it didn’t matter how cold it got. She was hysterical and stubborn. She may have been tired before we even went. Oscar was a good sport and was only able to trick-or-treat the closest houses in our block because he had cough so we didn’t want to keep him out long. Henry as well was upset that he had to wear the costume; especially the hat, however, when we put him in front of the mirror, he got a huge smile on his face. Enough talk and here are some of the pictures.

For more pictures of the family please see our Flickr photostream.

This is a panoramic photo taken from Silver Lake in American Fork Canyon.

I just used this service to create a collage based on a flickr set for my twitter account. Here are the two photos I made.

Here is a widget of the Schmap! California Guide. One of our Flickr Pictures with Creative Commons license was used in the making of this guide. The picture is published. I believe Marlene took the picture for it; however, it was my flickr account so I am getting credit for it. But so you all know she did it I think.

The picture is one of Oscar at the Museum by the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, CA. Look up the Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits and we are one of the pictures. Hope you can see it. Or click here and you’ll see the picture used.

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This last weekend we went to visit Spencer and Jonene and the girls. We had a great time. Spencer was generous with his time and talents and performed Henry’s circumcision. Although it was hard to see him go through this pain, Spencer did an excellent job and was very knowledgeable about the process and Henry was pretty relaxed from the pain medication. Henry has done great since and hasn’t really seemed to feel horrific pain. He seems to be healing nicely.

Spencer and I took the kids out sledding on Saturday afternoon. We had fun. Oscar and Lily were great little climbers and sledders on the hill. Abbie, Kenzie, and Ella were also great. They were all so daring. We had a great time. Thanks, Spencer and Jonene for your hospitality.

We’ll have some pictures posted soon. Also look for some shots by Spencer on his flickr account.

We’ve had a great week. Henry Rodger Scoville was born just over a week ago on Saturday. We have had a great week. My parents were here until Monday taking care of Oscar and Lily until we got home from the hospital. Then Grandma Schaefer arrived and we had nice week with her helping us out (especially with Henry and the kids). I really appreciate all the help that she was to us this last week. Henry was really good but the other kids were a bit stressed about the new arrival. We’ve taken some great pictures. Check them out on Flickr.

Here are few.

I also took Lily to a Disney’s Princess Party (it was supposed to have breakfast and play) but the play was cancelled; regardless, Lily loved it. Here are a couple pictures of her.

I took the kids out on Saturday. I don’t remember where but these were some great shots of the two of them.

My sister, Sarah, sent me an email yesterday informing me that Marlene and I have a wedding picture that I posted on Flickr up on a wiki about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. You’ll need to scroll down to the section that talks about temples and preparation for marriage and you’ll see us. This was one of the excellent photos taken by our wedding photographer, Jonas Otsuji. His professional website is FeelThePhoto.com. He does wedding throughout the world and his philosophy is based on the idea of letting people enjoy their weddings and then you’ll get the best pictures as opposed to making them stand up and do lots of unnatural poses. We loved him as a photographer. He was recommended to us by some of our friends, Hiedi and Josh Blackwelder.Link to photo itself on the wiki.  And then here is the photo posted to my flickr account. This is a link to the album set of our wedding photos on Flickr. *I apologize for the lack of posts lately — I am trying to recover our pictures and music from my external hard drive that accidently erased, which was the only copy that I had. I’ll post about New York and Philly and Thanksgiving soon. I want to have the pictures to do so.

The last few weeks have been pretty busy and fun at the same time. October and Halloween we lots of fun and I just barely put on the pictures on Flickr that we took.

Marlene went with the kids (neighbors and preschool kids) to Pumpkinland for Preschool one morning and that was a lot of fun. So you’ll see some pictures from that.

Then we all went to Gardner Village to meet the Cahoons (Brandon, Dayna, and Kellen) for a good time just hanging out. Oscar and Lily had a great time playing with Kellen and Brandon.

Next, the Monday night before Halloween we carved pumpkins for FHE and you can see our doings there. Oscar and Lily enjoyed picking out the designs and then helping to pull out all the seeds from the pumpkins. Lily was methodical and just “kept on going.” She’s our little trooper. Oscar had fun but was a bit more lackadaisical about it, but he still did work and had fun. He has learned to say things like “I’m tired. I don’t think I can do that.”

Then for Halloween night we went to the Trunk-or-Treat for the ward and that was fun. We had some pictures taken of us all in our costumes. Oscar was Peter Pan and loved it. Marlene made the costume and I am very proud of her. It looked fantastic. She received many compliments on it. She received help from some of her ward member friends and they were a blessing so she got it done on time. Sewing…I don’t want to try to do more than repair a small hole. Too hard. Or my special froggy bean bags that Grandma Scoville showed me how to make for Christmas one year when I was a youth. That was pretty fun and I made them for everyone in the family. My mom made one for our kids for Christmas one year (it is made out on M&M material. It is a family favorite). Feel free to check out these photos and more on flickr.

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We will have some great pictures from our trip to New York and Philadelphia. I’ve posted the map of the journey from New York to Philadelphia. We fly on a Thursday night “Red-eye” into New York City because that was the best flight. Then we are driving a rental car to Philly for my conference (we are just staying the day in Philly but I hope to see some of the historical sites (e.g., The Constitutional Congress and Liberty Bell) since Marlene has already seen them) and then we are back to NYC. We bought tickets to “Cyrano”, a play with Kevin Kline and Jennifer Garner, but we’ve heard that Broadway is on strike so we probably won’t be seeing that. Sad!!! We’ll have to figure something else out.

Many thanks to our parents who are going to be watching our kids for the 5 days we’re gone. This is the second time we’ve left them for this long and we’re a little nervous. Not that our parents are watching them but that Lily may decide she wants to pull her hair out more. (Any suggestions for trichotilimania – please send them our way). We are doing some behavioral interventions that have been working to help her stop, although it isn’t perfect yet. We are trying have her stop sucking her middle fingers at the same time and she just resists that part, but she hasn’t pulled her hair as much. Which is nice, because her hair is growing in and we can do little pony tails. They are so cute. I must say Lily and Oscar are very excited to see Grandma Schaefer and Grandma and Grandpa Scoville. They will miss Grandpa Schaefer and made him some cards that we’ll be sending soon. Lily said yesterday can you write “Dear Grandpa” for a card that she made. She is adorable.

Here are a few random honorable mentions from flickr.

We’ll post the pictures from back east (NY and Philly) as soon as we get back, which is just before Thanksgiving.We are headed to Delta for Thanksgiving. It will be fun to see all the family and cousins (Oscar and Lily are so excited).

My favorite Webbrowsers for Macs:

My Top 3:

1) Safari – Apple has recently come out with the 3rd version of their famous Safari browser. It is very fast and runs great on the Mac. It doesn’t autosave your tabs and browsers as Firefox does so if it shuts down – you don’t have anything saved. But it is extremely quick.

2) Camino – this is a safari-like browser Mozilla corporation that has incorporated the firefox extensions and browser restore feature into aSafari-looking browser. Excellent on speed.

3) Firefox – I love this browser for the PC. It runs a little slower on the mac but still does well. I prefer Safari or Camino over them. The extensions again are a great feature. Far and away better than internet explorer.

Honorable Mention:

4) Flock – I do love the Flock browser and it just updated to official 1.0 version. It has some great blogging, photo sharing (e.g., Flickr) and monitoring features, however, in so doing it uses up a lot RAM power. I have 2GB RAM on our Apple iMac at home and it still runs slower than both Safari and Firefox. It does seem to run slower on the Mac.

5) Opera – Is a fun browser that has a bittorrent service integrated with it. I have used it in the past but I have gone back to the old faithful for Macs = Safari. I love Safari for the Mac.