We love celebrating the 4th of July! The kids especially love singing God Bless America and all things red, white and blue. Grandma bought adorable patriotic clothes and they proudly wore them to our ward pancake breakfast that morning. JD even wore his camo boots to show his support for the troops. After our breakfast […]
My new favorite hobby: taking pictures of my friends minutes after they welcome their new baby into the world. My friend Marie and her husband Kurt have two cute boys and just welcomed a little girl into the family. Being in the room to capture the moment when the boys met their sister for the […]
One of the things I was excited about doing this summer for the kids was swimming lessons. Morgan, a cute girl in our ward, is a swimmer and does lessons in her very own pool. She did a half hour of one on one time with each kid every day for a week. When we […]
We’ve been to two graduations this year, Matt’s from BYU and most recently Johnny’s from Concord High. High school graduations are always funny to listen to. I guess the high schooler’s motto is YOLO, “you only live once”. I must be really out of the loop because I’d never heard the song they were all […]
Doug, Cate and Wesley moved to Houston, Texas a few weeks ago. It was sad to even think about and then when the time came to say good bye it was even more sad. I cried, but I bet you already guessed that. The week before they left we tried to cram in as many […]
We kicked off the summer with a few fun activities like Attempting to pick cherries in Brentwood on Memorial Day. Apparently everyone else had the same idea so we bought a few cherries and then went to Five Guys for lunch. Â Visiting the Farmer’s Market one morning to get said cherries we meant to […]
I just got back from morning exercise to find Jim awake and both of my kids in our bed sound asleep. I exercised with some ladies from church and my mother in law who runs the show. She knows how to kick some butt, let me tell you. I brought up the rear with most, […]