My 11 things I love about Lucy are back HERE, but here’s what we did to celebrate: One evening last week we went from me telling Lucy I thought we should hold off on birthday parties until she turned 12 me helping her make an invitation to invite 23 girls over that Saturday (we were…
Dave, Lu and I left Dave’s family birthday/visitor week to head out for one last visit to Iowa. For a good doctor who is conducting a pretty exciting BBS clinical trial, and our good friends. The birthday boy himself dropped us off at the airport… And us “three musketeers” were off on another adventure. You…
Lucy, lucky girl, usually gets to share her birthday with conference weekend. I tried to name this post “Lucy’s Birthday and Conference Weekend” and it looks like I already have several other posts with that same title. (So I was so clever and switched it up a bit…ha!) I wrote seventeen things I love about…
Oh I’m so excited for General Conference this weekend. So I wanted to post about three ideas to get the most out of General Conference. You see, all kinds of leaders from our church will be speaking. Sharing messages of hope and healing and gratitude and forgiveness. For me, it’s such a great weekend to…
Loved “turning the hearts” (Malachi 4:6) this weekend. First turning hearts “to the children” because my niece Emmeline came to town. Oh my goodness, she and Lucy are one of my favorite duos and Em got here just in time for Lucy’s choir performance “Night at the Opera” fundraiser at the school. I picked her…
So the day finally came last Saturday when this girl of ours turned TEN: She has written numerous “books” leading up to the big occasion and has sent a whole slew of funny text messages to make sure people were aware. Oh, and there have been follow-up texts as well… That girl is a pretty…
I wrote about our “pre-reunion” Bear Lake back HERE. But let’s talk about the real-deal reunion because it is almost October after all. I’m hoping what I write will help spur some idea sharing on reunions since Dave and I are in charge next year and I want to have some good notes while all…
My heart was stretched so thin in Utah this time around because there are so many people to love there! I do realize that’s the best “problem” to have, but man, there were so many people I wanted to spend time with up there! There was lots of emotion amidst the college tours too. I…
Let’s go back to April. It started out with General Conference for our church…a weekend I adore, mixed in with a brunch with neighbors, a mission report from Grace for other neighbors: …and a mission report to extended family as well: I wrote all about that weekend (and my favorite talks) back HERE. Dave’s friend…