So many of Claire’s good/best friends are leaving for missions right now. She’s so sad to be missing all their farewells, dang it! But although we don’t have a missionary out right at the moment, I’ve been thinking about missions so much lately. And the best brand of resilience they have the power to create….
I always do a “snapshot” of how each new year looks right at the beginning. Because I like to hold onto memories like nobody’s business. And here we are already half way through MARCH and Grace is getting home from her mission TODAY, so I figure I better get busy snapshotting it up real quick…
Yep, I’m catching up! We started off October with a brand new fifteen year old: Who luckily had planned out her bday to a “t” so we could just follow directions to help her celebrate. HA! See that boy over there on the counter over there below? Yes, Max & Abby came to town to…
When Max and Abby realized that they were going to be in the VERY SAME CITY as Grace at Christmastime, they got permission to go see that sister of theirs. And they were so excited with anticipation. All three. Ok, really all nine, because ALL of us were pretty excited about that little piece of…
(Missionary Monday on a Thursday :)) My favorite sister missionary had a birthday over the weekend. Just look at that little light-glowing girl over in Austin! I haven’t done an update on her in a while. So let me tell you what she’s up to, because she is HALF WAY DONE WITH HER MISSION for…
Right now there is so much I could say about the election, especially as a follow up to THIS discussion (and I love when there really is a “discussion” and not just people being mad at each other because that’s where the growth comes in my opinion). I learned so much from all the insightful…
First of all, just want to share this picture I came across the other day because I love it so. It is of little girls Elle (post edit…this is GRACE, not ELLE…yikes!) and Lucy waiting for the boat to come get them one summer years ago at Bear Lake. There are lots of things I…
Thanks for all the good missionary questions on the last post about our new missionary Grace. I answered them back in that comment section, but I think we’ll need to do another Q&A once she gets in the swing of all that jazz. I think we’ll be on a steep learning curve for a few…
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…