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The most delicious home-made rolls – wendy’s rolls
When Thanksgiving rolls around we’re all looking for good roll recipes, am I right? So I want to repost a recipe for the most delicious home-made rolls. This is a recipe from my friend Wendy who we’ll get to in a minute. For now, let’s just enjoy brace-clad Elle showing off those beauty-rolls. There we…
how to make the most of three days in rome!
Before all these details fade from my memory forever, let’s talk about how to make the most of three days in Rome. Because in our opinion, after so much research and what felt like blood and sweat and tears, we kinda nailed it. Ha! As a refresher, since it’s taken me a while to get…
pink sauce sausage rigatoni that will knock your socks off
I love when I find new recipes that our whole family loves. Ok, well, our “whole” family isn’t really around, but Lucy is sometimes a hard sell. So let me share this new pink sauce sausage rigatoni recipe that we all fell in love with. When I say we “all,” I am talking about the…
Lucy’s birthday and general Conference combined
Lucy, lucky girl, usually gets to share her birthday with conference weekend. I tried to name this post “Lucy’s Birthday and Conference Weekend” and it looks like I already have several other posts with that same title. (So I was so clever and switched it up a bit…ha!) I wrote seventeen things I love about…
What’s been happening around here lately
I feel like I’ve been trying so hard to catch up with the “big things” going on around here, but I want so much to remember the “little things” too! So I’m taking today to just write a few thoughts going through my heart, and also some happenings that I want to remember. The other…
Lots of “little things” leading up to Claire becoming a missionary
Oh I have SO much to say about this “Home MTC” thing Claire is smack-dab in the middle of right now. But let’s take this thing in order and start with the prep for this Home MTC week. We got home from our trip and got right to work with all the mission prep. Getting…
Exploring the ruins of Pompeii with the best guide!
One of the most fascinating parts of our trip was exploring the ruins of Pompeii with the best guide. Yow. We weren’t going to make this stop due to time constraints. But when we found it was right en route to Rome from our hike and Amalfi coast cities, we couldn’t pass it up. So…
August little things
An overview of how August 2022 went down!