family

Dave’s sister Julie and her husband Seth come to town now and again. And every time they do, they bring a party along with them. Ha! I mean, it’s funny how so many of the rest of us live here in the desert, and sure, we get together as much…

There is something special about conference weekend. Why do I get so excited to watch hours and hours of talks, you may ask? I just love having those words of wisdom and encouragement (and also good reminders and things to draw me closer to Christ) wash over me and my…

Claire happened to have a tournament in California starting a couple days after Grace returned from her mission. So we got to all go watch her together. So fun for Grace to see the level of play and to get in on some of this volleyball action before we reach…

I am learning more and more about the “labor” part of the term “labor of love.” Because after we were singing glory hallelujah when Lucy finally accepted the idea to go to a class at The Foundation for Blind Children (and even had a good time…back HERE), I really thought…

Oh how I miss these days (I call them our “Taylor Swift” days). If I could just wrap my arms around each of these babies of mine and look in their eyes and tell them, OH! The places they will go! Mothers, remember to record those kids! The raspy voices,…

My birthday arrives right after Claire’s. And I have a lot to say about that one (it was a big one this year), but for now, let’s just bask in the fact that Dave got the married kids home to celebrate (most thoughtful gift in the whole wide world), and…

We had an opportunity to skip off to Cancun with Dave’s siblings for a few days leading up to Christmas. So took it! We arrived at our hotel close to sunset, all three families at the same time despite different flights and delays, and ran out to the beach to…

It was a jam-packed Thanksgiving day, so bear with me on all these pictures to remember it all! You see, when you decide to have a sealing the day after Thanksgiving, people come. And you squish in a lot of things in a short amount of time because those days…

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…

This year we skipped Halloween. We didn’t mean to, of course. As it inched forward I kept thinking to myself that I better get busy pulling out the Halloween boxes. But we were slow and life was filling in every cranny. And no one asked, “hey mom, where are those…