Our little Portia Roo is one year old today! Let’s talk about how fabulous she is! Once upon a time, Portia was no more than this:But we loved her a lot even then! Then precisely one year ago she was born and we loved her even more! And she just kept growing! And we love […]

There’s not a whole lot on my mind right now–except perhaps the refashion project I just finished that didn’t turn out very well…–but I wanted to share some snippets of our simple day at home.   Also, this picture is just to make you smile.

The month of February has been busy for us! We have been at our house for approximately 35 hours since February 7. The first week, we babysat Jordan and Crystal’s cute kids while they partied in Curacao for a week! Now we are hanging out at Mother and Daddy’s house with the two at home […]

This week, we had the enormous privilege of being invited to Kathryn and Steve Lyde’s home for a Valentine’s Day Party! It was a super-fun party with activities for the whole family and many elaborate and delicious foods to eat! One of the activities was a photo shoot with a Polaroid camera! Most of our […]

This year, as I mentioned in my New Year post, I have been working on worrying less and delighting more. Some days go better than others on the worrying less, but I think I have made some actual headway in delighting more in my daily life! One thing I have done is remove the pinterest […]

There were so many things in this past week that filled me with so much joy, and they were all just little things that don’t seem like they would have as much joy-power in them. But life is made of those little simple things, and if we don’t find joy in them, where are we […]

The other day I saw a pin on pinterest which said something to the effect of “Foods to not eat if you want to lose weight” and then it proceeded to name exclusively delicious foods. Nobody ever tells you to avoid black-licorice and hard candy when trying to lose weight, they only tell you to […]

This week Portia has suddenly grown up, it seems! She has taken off with her mobility! She still isn’t at the point where I would say she “crawls,” but her army crawl has evolved to include pushing off with her toes, and she can fly across the ground! She also picks up a fair amount […]

Christmas is always great; but this year was extra special because I got to take the Sacrament on Christmas day! It is nice to have Christmas on weekdays, naturally, as you have more freedom to play with all your new things, but I absolutely LOVED having it on the sabbath this year! But I am […]

The Christmas season officially begins for us on Thanksgiving. Josh’s family has a tradition of running a 4 mile race in the morning, and Josh has a tradition of dressing up as Santa for the run (because he can). Fay got wind of that and needed a costume of her own. Carter wanted to use […]