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(I’m slipping this in WAYYY after June, but love to have it here to document!) June was filled right up with family and Newport and Utah. We started out in Newport, all of us together to celebrate the 4th of July. Lucy learned to cook Nichol’s pasta (our family favorite),…

It is the best time of the year here in the desert. The perfect temperatures for hiking: And my orange trees are heavy-laden with all this golden goodness: There’s nothing like this time in the desert, right before my allergies hit in full force 🙂 I have let so much…

Dave and I watched “Puss in Boots” with Lu over the three-day weekend. (It was a cute movie.) As Puss was grappling with how to handle only having one life left (of his cat-nine-lives:), I was caught with the idea of making the very most of this one “wild and…

Just as time was running out for our first meeting at church today (it was testimony meeting where everyone can stand and share their thoughts about Jesus), Lucy stood up and headed up to the front to share her own testimony. And every time she does this (it’s been a…

We filled this last weekend up with all sorts of things. Since the weather dipped from 110 to a mere 95 (or something like that), we decided to take these guys on a bike/scooter ride to breakfast. It was one of those days where the sky is blue and the…

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…

I got to walk around the high school running into Jonah, Aja and Elsie between classes the other night at “meet-the-teacher” night… …and I thought to myself once again, it is pretty grand to have an extra brother and his family around here. Especially one who fixes all kinds of…

We started out May finishing the tail end of a few days in Austin exploring Grace’s mission stomping grounds. We fell in love not only with that cool city, but even more with the good people who’s stories intertwined with Grace’s who she fell in love with…and they loved her…

Ok let’s get down to business and crank out a recap of January. We started out this brand new year with a little double date to the Fiesta Bowl with these two: Max and Abby were in Texas this Christmas, we missed them but got them before Christmas so we…

Boy howdy, a lot happened in December. Let’s get to it. Our sweetest ever friends knew Dave didn’t want a lot of hoopla for his bday (back at the end of November), so they figured we could just put together a home-made dinner to celebrate him. His face shows kind…