Sorry I missed last week. I have a good reason. We were having so many adventures! Mother and Daddy have a super fun tradition of taking each child and their family on a little trip each year to get more bonding time with the grandkids. Our trip this year was to Heber, last Friday and […]

I have a confession: I don’t particularly care for summer these days. For those of you who feel offense because of that statement, I have some reasons that I feel clear things up. One reason is that the best part of summer has always been, for me, summer nights! That is when the temperature is […]

I guess it was just too much for me to write last week. But my birthday was so fabulous that I couldn’t omit talking about it even though we’re almost two weeks out. The best thing about having your birthday on Pioneer Day in Utah is everything! It is a holiday that very few people […]

Our Summer of Adventure is going great! And I must confess that, at least for me, it has been much improved by our efforts to get to bed on time each night. Even though Helen still is nowhere close to sleeping through the night (despite our best efforts), we are all a lot closer to […]

This week, the only really notable thing that took place was that Josh’s phone up and died on him. He got a fancy new one that he is having lots of fun with! I actually don’t know all that much about what makes it fancy; but Josh is very happy with it and I’m sure […]

We had a great 4th of July this year! We spent the day with all my extended family on my mother’s side, the illustrious Boones! Every three years they get together and have a week long family reunion known as Rendezvous (think mountain man more than french). We were only there for a single day, […]

This past weekend, my littlest brother (second youngest sibling) got married. George is a great kid and we love Chelsea, his beautiful wife and my new sister! I am so grateful to have such marvelous siblings! And I am equally grateful that every one of my siblings-in-law is equally marvelous! We had a super fun […]

Today’s Sacrament Meeting was really special to me. I felt like the speakers each shared really deep, personal struggles they have dealt with or are currently dealing with and beautiful, profound insights on how the Savior and the Gospel have been their anchor and their support. And as I was listening, I felt like I […]

This past week we partied and partied! And we didn’t drive 8 hours to do it! (Josh had originally planned on us going to Denver, but I was a wuss about the drive and ultimately managed to sell him on the staycation idea.) We started each morning with a fun continental breakfast because breakfast at […]

Josh has been needing a break for … a long time. It is seriously hard to deal with a 3rd trimester wife followed by a newborn and a postpartum wife, and all the older kids, and work! And when Josh needs a break, he starts planning for a break. And the longer he goes without […]