Claire

Lucy gave me a really good parenting tip a few weeks ago without even meaning to. I was sending little Valentine’s packages to all the big kids, and she didn’t get a chance to write her notes to her siblings before she left for school the day I wanted to…

The REAL end of volleyball for our family There is something pretty beautiful about being part of something bigger than yourself. It teaches you humility. It teaches you camaraderie. It teaches you to work your heart out to be a contributing part of the whole because you don’t want to…

Happy birthday to my dear Claire Bear. In my mind you were JUST right here, stretching out, trying to figure out that tiny little body. And now here you are, this glowing, vivacious college girl figuring out life all independently. It is pretty beautiful to see. 19 things I adore…

It just so happened that Claire’s very last season game was HERE IN THE DESERT. How amazing is that? So not only did we get to go watch the game, we got to hang out with the team for a team dinner the night before. You see, one of the…

We decided if our girl is playing college volleyball the whole family should get to see her in action. I mean, when your school has stuff like this in the halls, it’s kind of fun, right? Ha! (Elle got there earlier than we did and took that one up there),…

Our college girls have a whole lot of life-moving-pieces going on up there in Provo, so let’s do a little update on that. Because we got to do a quick overnight visit last weekend. Claire had moved from the dorms at BYU and that whole all-engulfing experience she adored so…

Guess what? THE UVU VOLLEYBALL SEASON IS OFF TO THE RACES! And look who showed up on their instagram feed “11” days before the first real game hits (on Friday): Our own “#11.” (You can see the whole season schedule HERE.) I just love that these two high school teammates…

As we made the trip to Utah to tuck Claire into her new experience in the dorms for summer school, I couldn’t help but notice how beautiful the sky was outside my window, and of course made an analogy to life in it: The sun setting on her experience at…

Let’s go back to graduation. What’s that you say? Not the right graduate? I know, I know, it’s all about Claire these days, but TODAY is that boy’s birthday. The boy who made me a mother. The boy who made my heart want to burst. And still does. The boy…

There were a whole slew of things right at the end of the school year leading up to graduation that I want to remember all together, so here we go. Our church congregation put together such a nice evening celebration for all the kids graduating: We had dinner and got…