About 71 Toes Hello & Welcome Here at 71Toes you’ll find the story of how my husband and I have muddled through raising our five children mixed with hundreds of ideas that will expand your parenting landscape. I’ve always been a record-keeper at heart. Over the last fifteen years, what started as a family journal…
On Sunday last week I sat in the back of the gym (behind the chapel) on the hard seats surrounded by so many families we love and took in the idea of CHURCH. How I adore it. As I sat there and took it all in, I became so overwhelmed with the beauty of that…
Let’s talk about how to decorate with pictures…at least how I do it! How many thousands of pictures do we have clogging up our computers and phones? Thousands upon thousands, right? We have no shortage of pictures in the world these days. But how many pictures do we take that we actually look at again?…
For those new here, about six years ago, when all of our five kids were still at home, we had the unique opportunity to live in China for one school semester for my husband’s work…and for the adventure of a lifetime. We put our kids in Chinese schools and tried to get in as many…
I don’t want to take away attention from the last post, but I have to also get this post in today because it’s my only boy’s birthday. And this blog is where I write my birthday cards to my children. When Max was a little toddler we had this ritual where we would ask, “How…
It’s Abby’s birthday today. This girl who has come into our family bringing so much light and goodness right along with her: Right from the start she fit right in and we all promptly fell right in love with her. Because she was so easy-going and down-to-earth…and filled with so much love not only for…
Dave and I got to meet up with Max and Abby this last weekend before they made the rest of their route back up to Provo. We met up to attend a wedding. You see, Max’s last mission companion became such a good friend (he lucked out with such great mission companions!) He was the…
The beginning of May found us with these two high schoolers still going strong as best friends: (I am a little melancholy with this right at the moment since these two are missing each other SO MUCH as I write here a couple months later and they are a world apart. So crazy how life…