The Frost Wellness Boutique

We start treatment with a nice hot bubble bath and some hand-picked bath toys -- the monkeys are always popular.


Next we apply a thin bubble facial that leaves the skin feeling creamy and pinchable.



The bubbles can be stuffed up the nose to improve breathing, and also spread on the teeth as a safe alternative to harsh bleaches.


Next our personal stylist (who has recently been added to the process - he is learning quickly) will do your hair in a number of fashionable styles as you drink a yogurt drink made from whole milk and fruits.


Actually, this is the only style he can do as of now -- but he's pretty proud of it.

Ice for Megan

Since I can't seem to avoid the dollar bin at Target, we got Megan this jewlery to match the weather that we've been having. She's quite happy with it, and it only cost two dollars. (Sorry this video is sideways).

Storm of the Century

Austin has hunkered down to endure the ice storm that has been tearing across the midwest. It shut down the University of Texas for the first two days of the semester, so Mike has been able to lay around in his pajamas with us. He's not complaining.








Since we've been trapped inside, we've been having a lot of fun together. Megan is loving the doll house that Grandma and Grandpa Frost got her. Here she is feeding bananas to the little people.


She's been helping me cook.


And she's been pretty much getting into everything. Here she is trying on Lonna's boots.


We haven't minded the lazy days off that we've had, but are hoping that tomorrow we'll get back into some kind of schedule.

New Orleans A Year Later

Last week I attended a conference in New Orleans. A friend of a friend who works for a relief agency down there took us around town and explained about cleanup efforts. We started in some of the nicer parts of town, and ended in the ninth ward, which was right below a levee which broke. As you can see, not a lot of progress has been made.




We came across this boat that was still in the street.


Many people are still emptying out their homes and trying to make them livable again.


Quite a few homes have FEMA trailers attached to them while the owners try to repair them.



Spray painted messages from the rescue efforts still adorn many walls, indicating where where bodies were found, were help was needed, and even where pets were found.



And although there are signs like these:


There are more signs like the one on the door of this house.


I stayed downtown in the French quarter just off Canal and Bourbon street, and although that part of town is doing well (it wasn't hit nearly as hard), you can see that the rest of New Orleans has not fared so well. Every one of these pictures (and I have dozens more) represent someone's life, and someone's personal tragedy. I'm not posting these pictures just for "disaster tourism" purposes. I thought that it would be good to show as many people as possible how bad things are for people both in New Orleans and in many other parts of the world that have experienced disaster, or just daily economic hardship. As you can probably tell from these pictures, many of the people were living in hard conditions prior to the hurricane. It's easy to forget how bad many people have it, and how blessed we are. If you are motivated to do anything to help, here is a link to the Red Cross, and one to the LDS Philanthropies, where you can donate to multiple funds designed to help people around the world.

So Many Pictures, So Little Time

This seems to be a recurring pattern. Whenever we visit family, or have family visit, we take so many pictures that we have a hard time deciding which ones to use, and we end up not posting for a while. Here is a random smattering of some of our favorites.










We had a lot of fun on our marathon vacation, but are glad to be back in our quiet apartment for a little while.