happenings

The summer semester ended for Grace and for Claire. Grace’s ended earlier than Claire’s, and she’s been working double shifts up there, sometimes with fun visitors: (Mini cousins Moses and Gabe.) Also reunions with dear mission friends and fun adventures with new friends: Claire’s semester ended with a bang, trying…

Each year I write a “family snapshot”…just some notes on how life is going in that little “snapshot” of time right then. So I’m a little late for 2019, but then, I’m a little late every year so we’re really right on track 🙂 It still feels strange to only…

Lucy has this funny (or not so funny) thing about meals.  She has to have them in order. For example, if it’s suddenly dinnertime on a crazy summer day and she realizes, horror of horrors, that she somehow managed to miss lunch it won’t do to just have dinner and…

We started out May with a grand wedding in North Carolina.  These brothers had to jump for joy about it. More on the wedding back HERE. Max made the most of having to babysit a little bit while we were gone: Looks like Lucy was really enthralled with his babysitting…

At the beginning of each new year I like to do a little “snapshot” of what’s going on around here. I know, like I need MORE record along with the thousands of pictures I take to document the going-ons of life in our neck of the woods.  But most of…

I’ve already written a bunch about January, and I have two more big things to write about (a wedding and a lot of pretty exciting temple stuff), but here are some of the other things I want to remember about January. We loved having cousins in town.  I think I…

I’m dedicating these few more days before Thanksgiving to as many thing as I can squeeze in that I’m grateful for. Oh boy am I ever grateful for health and the bodies we have that work so well that we often take for granted. Think of all the things that…

There is something inside me that glows with satisfaction when we get out of the suburbs into the “big city.”  I don’t know what it is.  Maybe it’s the whole “Boggle mentality” I talked about back HERE on a teeny small scale.  Maybe it’s the feeling of being surrounded by…

Yes, I do realize it is now the end of September (how did that happen?!?), but I’m going to take bite-size pieces to catch up with documenting life around here starting with August. The way my girls make their beds:Notice how cute that is and not the fact that they…

Elle had a choir performance a couple weeks ago. I took pictures of our family waiting for it to begin because I wanted to record our motley crew.  We were actually there early so we could get good seats, but don’t let that fool you that we were put together.…