It seems like November was a busy month. Here's a bunch of random photos to illustrate the month for us. This is a long post so be forewarned.
Ginger and her Grandpa Lovstedt.
Ginger loves copying Penny in everything she does. It always makes me a little nervous.
A cute photo of the girls after Church. Ginger's tights are all nasty from crawling around on the dirty Church floors.
I went to my Grandpa Allsop's funeral in Washington. He was a great man. At least he's in good company up in heaven. I'm sure my mom was happy to have her dad around again.
Apparently my grandpa thought it'd be fun to have each of the grandchildren throw some dirt on his coffin at the cemetery as they were burying him. Here's my brother, Scott, posing with the shovel before the ceremonial dirt-throwing. 
My mother's headstone. Her and my grandpa are buried in the same family plot at the Toppenish cemetery. It's always weird to think about my mom being dead. Especially looking at her headstone. It makes me think about the finality of death. But, on a hopeful note, it also makes me grateful for the Atonement in ways I never would have understood before her death. 
My family at the funeral service. Me, Kristin, Ashley (Scott's wife), Scott, Amanda, Jake, Becca, her husband Jon, Juliann, Dad, Judy.
I turned 30. I feel like a real grown-up now.
As usual, the day after Thanksgiving, we went camping in the desert and Stephan rode his dirt bike with some buddies. It was freezing and it rained. Camping seems harder with a crawler. Ginger's 14 months and still not walking so she drove me crazy in the dirt and all the stickers. I think she looks like such a big girl sitting here with her real shoes on.
Despite hiding out in our friend's van during the rain storm, Ginger managed to give me some cute pictures. She gets more adorable all the time. I love her huge smile.
Sometimes Ginger's smile looks a bit goofy, like here, but she's still so freaking cute! How can you resist her chubby little cheeks?
Penny has turned out to be quite the little princess-wanna-be. She loves dressing up in her hand-me-down princess outfits and dancing to this one album, "Princess Tea Party." (Thanks, Julie!) Sometimes she'll lay down on the ground and pretend to be asleep and then tell me to be the prince and I have to come and wake her up with a kiss. It's hilarious. I don't know where she's even seen Sleeping Beauty. And, honestly, I never wanted a princess-y girl. She's turned into this all by herself.
