Happiest of birthdays to Fay on May 7! It is so exciting that she is finally 13 and a true teenager, because she’s been living the life of a teenager this whole school year. She is in Young Womens, goes to middle school, got braces in February, started wearing contacts, and “hangs out” with friends […]

Happy 11th birthday to our best boy on April 21! Carter was so excited for his birthday he wondered if he would ever be able to make it to the actual day. But his special day really did arrive and, if I’m not mistaken, it was even worth the wait! Carter knew exactly what he […]

I remember two years ago in General Conference when Elder Stevenson invited us to make Easter more of a celebration in our families and in the world. I was/am convinced that his invitation is the coolest Prophetic counsel ever! A Prophet, Seer, and Revelator–who knows stuff–is essentially saying “Elisabeth, it’s probably about time you got […]

Bianca turned FIVE years old on April 12! She was very excited for this birthday because she got to have her very first friend-party! She was delighted to invite all her preschool and church friends to celebrate with her, and even more delighted that everybody came! Bianca wanted her birthday party to be themed “colors.” […]

If you ask our kids, they can all tell you that we are really good at doing nothing for spring break. The neighbors may go to Europe and DisneyWorld, but we stay home and do nothing while Mom stresses out. 🙂 But THIS year, Josh saved us all from the traditional boredom and we went […]

Did you know that Helen’s birthday is only two days after Portia’s? That means that if/when I’m not on my A-game, they both get their birthday blog-posts written at the same time.😅 Happy 7th birthday to our sweet Helenator! Helen is seriously the funnest little girl to be around! She kind of just quietly goes […]

Sometimes I kind of let it slip my mind that celebrating the kids’ birthdays means that they’re a whole year older. I feel like this year I’m still half in denial that my kids are really growing up. We celebrated 9 wonderful years of loving Portia on March 10th! She got lots of loving from […]

I’m so excited to share my 2025 theme verb with you! It’s a good one! But before we get into that, I have to share with you what Josh and I did to better survive January this year! As you might imagine, this all began with a very loving and generous mother. 🙂 For Josh’s […]

It is always fun to look back on a year in terms of the word I chose as my theme verb. This year is especially exciting because of how poorly my word went! 😂 I’ll start this post with the really pessimistic view of the year: I started out in January great. I worked really […]

I thought it would be nice to post some of what we’ve been doing for the past couple months. This post won’t have a cohesive flow; it will just be pictures with explanation. Enjoy! Our pear tree became ripe enough for the kids to start enjoying pears in late August. Here they all are with […]