Unbelievably October has come and is almost gone. The month has been spent with a whirlwind of school, flag football, and band concerts ... and to think I completely forgot to put up any Halloween decorations. That's ok, the colors in my house are fall colors, does that count?
The kids had Columbus day off. They chose to eat lunch with dad at work downtown and then visit a museum. Sunday night after whittling our choices down to about 9 different museums to choose from the kids chose the Holocaust museum. I as excited about this because I have wanted to visit this museum for quite some time. In fact I was doubly excited because visiting a museum was the kids idea. Usualy I'm the one in the family who will bring that idea up.
Ironically enough Monday during our morning family scripture study we read about Mosiah in 91 b.c. teaching the people the importance of not having a king but judges chosen by the voice of the people, and ultimately the consequences of having a wicked king. While Hitler was not a "king" I thought the scripture applied very well with what happened in the Holocaust.
"For behold, how much iniquity doth one wicked king cause to be committed, yea what great destruction..... he enacteth laws, and sendeth them forth among his people, yea, laws after the manner of his own wickedness; and whosoever doth not obey his laws he causeth to be destroyed; and whoseover doth rebel against him he will send his armies against them to war, and if he can he will destroy them.."
You cannot bring a camera into the museum so the only shot we got was of the outside. The building is designed to represents the smoke stacks from the crematoriums. That's the only picture I took out front.
The three of us were impressed by the museum and it's contents, and information. We rented the audio tour so we could move at our own pace. I think the part that I found most moving was the personal stories of those survivors who live in our town. Dustin also enjoyed the section covering the Jewish Americans who fought as soldiers during WWII. It was quite a display. Ultimately touring the museum was overwhelming and disheartening but worth the visit.
Daria had her first band concert of the new school year. Daria is in the Symphonic band. She started out as 1st chair and now sits at 3rd chair. They played two pieces, and then one combined with honor band where they played "They Eye of the Tiger."
Dustin's flag football team seemed like they would go undefeated until two weeks ago when they lost. That's the same day Dustin got clobbered, not really on purpose but that's what happens when you have a bunch of boys going for the ball in Dustin's hands. Dustin and another boy hit full force knocking them both flat on the ground leaving Dustin with a headache for the rest of the day and what we think was a broken nose. The reason we put him in flag football was to avoid the injuries that are more common with tackle football. Hhmmmm. Anyway, that was the only game they lost. This past Saturday Dustin scored two touchdowns. Here is one of them.
This was Dustin on his way to scoring his first touchdown of the day. I had to post this picture as it made me chuckle when I saw it. The photo makes it seem worse than it was, but I couldn't help but think how great it looked as Dustin left the opposing team in the dust
Here is the video of Daria playing the flute for her band concert. You might have to sign in to my blog to view it.
