Welp, I better wrap up our little stint in Utah really quick. Not only did we get Claire settled as a true college girl up in Utah (back HERE), we filled our time up with a whole slew of other things. Utah is amazingly green right now, and the weather?? …
We celebrated our 27th anniversary up in the mountains. I talked about that anniversary back HERE, but here’s what we did that day. Welp, we started it off strong with a big fight. Ha! (I know, who can fight in all that beauty??) I don’t even remember what we were…
I was talking to a friend the other day. A friend who also has a teenager with some special needs. It was so good to be able to relate on some things we are traveling through as mothers. The way our families have adjusted, heaved and shifted as the “special”…
Happy 4th of July! At church yesterday our bishop talked about choices. The ones that make us better, the ones that make us worse. Isn’t it so awesome we can choose so many things in life!? How we interact with people. How we choose to see them. What we choose…
We were still up in Utah (dropping Claire off for college) intentionally so we could be there to celebrate this girl: I wrote about her on her actual day back HERE, but here’s what we did that day. Of course we had to start with Lucy’s traditional candy bar poster.…
As we made the trip to Utah to tuck Claire into her new experience in the dorms for summer school, I couldn’t help but notice how beautiful the sky was outside my window, and of course made an analogy to life in it: The sun setting on her experience at…
It’s that time of year when all over the world, Mission Leaders (formerly called Mission Presidents) for our church make a giant switch. The new Mission Leaders are trained and make their way to wherever they are assigned to take the places of those who have served for three years.…
My brother Jonah and I dubbed ourselves the “#2’s” years and years ago. I was the second girl, and he was the second boy in a family of nine kids. It was our own special “club” in a sea of siblings. And we are so excited around here because this…
GRACE TURNS 21 TODAY!! This post is to offer other moms of spitfire daughters hope. Because phew! Kids can be a handful sometimes, and this girl was one of those handfuls. But as I spent the morning looking through pictures of her growing up I was overwhelmed first of all…