Carter turned 8 years old yesterday. He celebrated with all his favorites: donuts, juice, tacos, and a father-son trip to the skate park. We love this dude so much! Carter is our little Everything-Man. He seriously loves so many things! He loves soccer (especially drop-kicking), scooters, bikes, trampoline jumping, and playing with sisters. Those are […]

Our sweet little Bianca Reine turned 2 years old this past Tuesday! However, we were all, and she especially, laid up with a stomach bug; so we didn’t actually celebrate her birthday at all until Thursday. It was very convenient that she is young enough not to care about the change. She had a list […]

Our gorgeous Helen turned 4 years old yesterday! Her requested decor was raccoons. We did our best. Helen’s birthday planning usually coincides with Portia’s because their birthdays are two days apart. Portia had very specific plans for all her birthday meals about a month in advance; but Helen took things slow. I did get her […]

Happy 6 years to Portia this past Thursday! We love this spirited little girl we have so much! Some fun things to note about Portia include, but are not limited to: She loves reading! She is a gifted reader who will spend 30+ minutes reading to herself for fun, or spend time reading to her […]

If you can sing the title, you get extra points. But don’t sing the rest of the song, because–since acquiring the lovesac–we have learned that it really isn’t a very good song. That’s probably the reason why I only ever knew the chorus. Or maybe it’s because the chorus is the only catchy part of […]

Life has just kept putting along around here. I feel like we have become basically accustomed to double diabetes; though it is still not fun. But a lot of fun things have happened for our family in spite of it! I’m going to just do pictures with explanation this time around. Enjoy! Moving when we […]

It’s a new year and I am so excited to really get started on my word of the year! Usually I’ve got a pretty good idea of what word I want to use for the next year by about Thanksgiving time; but this year I had a rough time deciding what I wanted to do. […]

So, this year my goal was simply to read! I never liked reading until I was married, and even then I still didn’t read a ton. So this year, I wanted to start reading some of those “high quality” books on my list. I try to be really realistic about my year-resolution-words and what I […]

Once Upon a Time, there was an exhausted family. It was ours. If you read the story of our move, you know that we were pretty well spent after the process of moving. And that was on the heels of 2020, which doesn’t really need a lot of explanation, but I might add that we […]

This post is mostly for me to remember this experience. So if you don’t want to read a short novel, just skip to the final paragraph. After grad school, we moved back to Utah following a job that Josh was really excited about at a company called Experticity. He had a lot of fun there […]