Well, I went back to Italy in May to unwind from law school, and decided to drop by La Galleria and buy Dem something. While I was picking up a beautiful, large ceramic bowl, I notice something called a "matonella." I was a ceramic tile with a scene hand painted on it. This particular matonella had a baby scene, complete with baby in bed, a scale showing baby's birth weight, a clock indicating baby's birth time, calendar with baby's birth date, and a little portion for the colors of the parents' favorite soccer team (it is Italy, after all). Betty informed me they recently begun selling these, and I told her I would order one when we had our first child.
Needless to say, when Elliot came into our life, I up and ordered the prized matonella. But, instead of soccer colors, I sent Betty a BYU football logo and asked the artist place it in the scene. He kindly obliged. And here, finally, is a photo of possibly the coolest possession we own.
