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…
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…
April seems kinda like ancient history right now, but let’s reminisce about that good month. It all started out with Easter… …and general conference: …which were filled with goodness (I’m still re-listening to conference every now and again…loved them so much!)…and a good April Fools prank: More about those two things back HERE. Gotta love…
In the beginning of February our kitchen looked like this with our traditional kitchen “heart attack” plastered all over the place: Plus, it always looks squeaky-clean like that. Ha! I should post more pictures of my kitchen when it’s strewn about with so many “things,” pots and pans and dishes and kids and backpacks and…
Each year I like to do a “snapshot” of how things work in our family at that particular moment in time. (Links to the other snapshots are here: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017) I looked over some of those recently and I’m so glad I have them tucked away to remember. So here we go with how…