family

We decided if our girl is playing college volleyball the whole family should get to see her in action. I mean, when your school has stuff like this in the halls, it’s kind of fun, right? Ha! (Elle got there earlier than we did and took that one up there),…

I got to walk around the high school running into Jonah, Aja and Elsie between classes the other night at “meet-the-teacher” night… …and I thought to myself once again, it is pretty grand to have an extra brother and his family around here. Especially one who fixes all kinds of…

As I mentioned in the last post, we didn’t get as much time as I would have loved at Bear Lake this year. It’s interesting how things shift and change as kids get older. When I had younger kids we would fly from D.C. (where we lived for six years…

Ever since Grace returned from her mission we have had little fragments of the family together: Elle stayed a couple days extra after spring break back in March so that she could be here with us for the grand mission return: (back HERE) Max and Abby arrived in the wee…

We each have stories unfolding every day. Do we sometimes slow down enough to recognize that? Isn’t it so cool WE are the authors? Right now Lucy is in the deep process of authoring the story of how her first class of TENTH GRADE is unfolding over at the high…

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…

Dave and I just had the opportunity to be the chaperones on a senior trip to Lake Powell with Claire and her friends and it was quite an adventure with the “unexpected” rearing up a few times, but man, life on a lake is the best in my opinion. And…

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…