It has been forever since I have written! I have composed like 4 blog posts in my head since the last time I posted, I just never quite get to the computer with them. 🙂 I wanted to share some more of how our autumn went! Josh outdid himself for Halloween this year! (I think […]

This afternoon, Fay told me she wanted to make a Halloween book with multiple pages. Her request reminded me of little books I made in school growing up which are made out of a single piece of paper. Well, thank goodness for youtube, because I found a tutorial, and made Fay and Carter each a […]

We’re finally allowing ourselves to get really excited about the Halloween season around here! The other day, I had a little time when the two littler kids were sleeping and Fay was still working on preschool and I decorated the mantel! This is the first time I’ve really done it since March, and it felt good! […]

I remember when Fay was around Portia’s age, I was still in school and I had a huge research paper due. My awesome sister-in-law, Crystal, agreed to watch Fay while I worked on my paper in her basement. Somewhere in the midst of working on my paper, I came upstairs to find Fay surrounded by […]

People often say they don’t have a favorite child. And I get that. I mean, how could you pick favorites among your own offspring? But let me tell you: my Fay is something super special. She is so funny, and bizarre, and then super sweet and Christ-like within seconds of each other. She gets pretty dramatic […]

A few weeks ago we discovered that we had more than just Virginia Creeper vines on our back fence; we have grape vines too! And there were even grapes growing thereon! We harvested them last week and made about 3 liters of grape juice! About 60% of that juice was consumed by Carter. We planted […]

We are just about the luckiest family ever! We spent all last week in paradise with Josh’s whole family minus one (we missed you, Katie). We went to the Island of Kauai, and did all the fun things you can do on an island! And, incidentally, being in Hawaii makes 50 states for me! Thanks […]

The other evening, we took the kids to the church parking lot so that they could all freely ride their bikes.  It was a beautiful evening, and the kids all three had so much fun! Josh and I had fun just watching them. Moments like these remind me just how much Heavenly Father loves us […]

I had a birthday on July 24th, as I am wont to do each year. 🙂 I am now 26, and it feels really good! I told Josh that what I wanted for my birthday was the same thing that I always want: time away from the kids, and ideally, time with Josh away from the […]

There are a lot of administrative changes going on at Josh’s work because of a merger with another company, and Josh hasn’t had much actual work to do. So he decided to take July 5 and 6 off. But then July 7 rolled around and there still wasn’t anything to do, so he took that […]