I am feeling my dear mother’s pain with summer schedule coordination this summer. Phew! She is always coordinating and situating and trying to figure out the details when we meet up together in the summers, and it takes a lot of work with a family of nine kids! So each summer as my family grows…
On Tuesday Dave and I celebrated our twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. Gosh. How does all that time fly by so fast? Weren’t we JUST here, on our honeymoon, eyes wide and bright for the future? And yet, those years have also been slow. I did some serious reminiscing as I worked to put together a photo…
Gosh, I’m so nostalgic going through pictures of the dads in my life this morning! And I want to write a whole novel about them but I think it’s more important to really BE with them so I’m going to let the pictures tell most of the story. I’m so grateful for my dad. For…
Yep, July…I have a goal to do one of these “little things” posts each Friday until I catch up. So here we go. In the beginning of July we were in Newport, living it up with our cousins. All about our time in our favorite family “place” back HERE. We joined our friends in Coronado…
We had a lesson/discussion in church last week that I keep thinking about. The question was posed, “What do we do to mentor and strengthen youth?” It made me realize more than ever that we adults have so much power to reach and lift and build the youth around us. Not just our own, but…
The beginning of July found us in Utah for the BBS Conference. We were so excited that it was in the West this time around, and that although most of the time it was just the three of us: …Claire and my parents and Utah siblings joined us for different parts and we loved sharing…
We totally switched up the 4th this year. The BBS conference was in Utah so close to the 4th, and we had to be here after for the reunion anyway. So we turned in our breezy traditional walk to the golf course to watch fireworks with friends in Coronado for packing into this giant stadium…
We started off July in California: I talked all about that trip back HERE. Then we went straight to visit my sister and her family at “the farm:” All about our farm experience over HERE. And then directly to Bear Lake: I talked about our arrival in that gorgeous place back HERE and the big reunion over HERE…
It’s weird how life changes when your kids grow older. Among many things, the size of your family, that was once quite constant and steady, starts to ebb and flow. For so many years we have headed to Southern California for the 4th of July with all five kids firmly in tow, basking in…