Eyres

I have an incredible niece. Ok, well, I am lucky enough to have a LOT of incredible nieces, but one of them is doing some pretty big things recently like accepting an offer to swim and study at Columbia (!), and putting together a “senior project film premier” evening to…

Two of mine got serendipitous and took advantage of a pretty awesome flight deal and came down to visit for a day and a half. Boy we spent those precious hours in true Eyre fashion, trying to pack in as much as humanly possible, and I have to say I…

How’s that for a long title? Ha! But I wanted to take a minute to talk about my very favorite part of Christmas every single year: children-gift-exchange on Christmas Eve. Can you see how excited Claire was to give this gift to Lucy years ago? Ok sorry had to include…

This was supposed to post this morning…I am late but here we go!I feel like the luckiest girl in the world when it comes to parents. The older I get, the more I parent, the more grateful I get. And I was already pretty grateful to begin with. Anyway, those…

My parents celebrated their FIFTIETH wedding anniversary this last summer. We celebrated with the adults a couple months earlier (back HERE), but the actual anniversary was in July and I love that we sure celebrated that thing during our annual reunion at Bear Lake. There are 51 of us all…

My mom has been struggling with a bad knee for years. So finally a few weeks ago she gave in to all the pain and had a total knee replacement surgery. We were all mixed with excitement and nervousness for her. It’s a big-deal surgery but my Dad, true to…

I cannot believe I sent off my two last at-home children for school bright and early this morning, Lu all confident with her schedule memorized having walked the school a few times in preparation, and Claire driving with friends and a giant smile on her face after claiming this is…

We are home. Back in the heat of the desert.  We got back Thursday night filled up to the brim with love from family and friends we got to visit with far and away, and feeling so excited to see and catch up with everyone we’ve missed over the summer.…

These are my parents: Look at them!  Do you see that light just oozing out of those smiley faces?  I love them so much.  And they have loved each other for over FIFTY YEARS.  Yep, their anniversary is coming up this summer. So they have been trying to figure out…

Ok. Here we go…. Each year the numbers at the lake shift a little…some come to stay well before, some come and stay after, but pretty much everyone is there for four sacred days each year: those days we call the reunion. It seems like every year we are missing…