old lady

Yep, that’s officially me. I turned one year older last week. So why do I still feel like I’m one of the Young Women?? It’s no fun to get older, but it helps alleviate the pain when you get to spend the day with your 6 favorite people in the whole wide world (Dave &…

my new best friends

I’ve been spending some serious quality time with my new best friends the last couple weeks: the Stake Primary Presidency. I wish I had a picture of them to post here. They are amazing women. It’s ward conference season and we sure are seeing a lot of each other these days! This was what has…

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the get-away

Ok so I promise this is the last post on Christmas, but it’s one of the best things we did over the break so I couldn’t leave it out. Every year we have Christmas with our kids at our house. Love it. Love the traditions. Love concentrating on our kids and being together. BUT, until…

Boston (part three)

For the past week I’ve been blown away every time I drive into our neighborhood. It’s finally Fall in the desert, and the colors make me so happy:I know it’s nothing compared to back East, and this is right after they just raked up all the gorgeous leaves on the ground (I wish they’d leave…

one great gift

I waited and waited and waited to get to be a mom. And finally, my wish came true. Dave and I had been married for a little over a year and those two little pink lines finally showed up on the pregnancy test. My heart was pumping. I was so excited I could hardly stand…

perspective

As I scurried around the city right after Christmas trying to pack in our last doctor appointments of the year I felt sorry for myself. Super sorry for myself….and for my girls. I was just so darn sick of doctors. Sick of holding Lu down to get blood from her teeny veins as crocodile tears…

SNOW

Ok, so there are some drawbacks to living in the desert too. One of them is that we don’t get snow. And sometimes in the winter you just crave it a little. Most days of our winter break Max would check the weather and claim it was coming. We were gonna get it…just a trace…

more tennis

When my parents and brother and sis-in-law came to town for Christmas we whisked them right from the airport to Max & Elle’s second tennis tournament.Because of this, and the fact that Dave’s parents were in town too, they had a humongous cheering section:The only trouble is, I think the cheering section jinxed them because…

ice skating

Nana and Papa hosted us and all the cousins on a big ice skating outing yesterday. Boy oh boy did we ever have a great time. Love ice skating. (Excuse these pics with my little camera accidentally set on a teeny tiny mode, but you get the idea, right?)And it couldn’t be better than when…