Posted in Family, Travel, site-seeing on Apr 8th, 2013 2 Comments »
Taking the long trip to Singapore, we wanted to make the most of it and at least add one more country to our list. After a long search and considering all the options, we decided on a little island in Indonesia. When we made that decision, Heidi & Joseph thought it sounded like a fun [...]
Posted in Family, Holiday, Travel, site-seeing on Apr 7th, 2013 1 Comment »
Life has been busy and somehow we ended up not having anything planned for the kids’ two-week Easter break. When we finally realized it, we jumped at the chance and booked tickets to Singapore to visit Chris’s sister, Heidi, and her family. This was very timely as Heidi and her family are soon packing up [...]
Posted in Family, Holiday on Feb 14th, 2013 No Comments »
Happy Valentine’s Day! Hopefully your day was as special as heart-shaped marshmallows in your hot cocoa! The kids woke up to candle-lit breakfast of donuts. It’s was nice that we were off school this week so it was a relaxing breakfast and a new surprise as each child decided to get out of bed. Cami [...]
Posted in Family, London on Feb 12th, 2013 1 Comment »
We have just finished up two weeks of having my parents with us. That’s right – 2 weeks!! I don’t know that we’ve ever had a visit that long, but it was very nice and relaxing. Because there were many days of their trip ahead of them, neither Mom nor Dad felt they needed to [...]
Posted in Birthday, Caleb, Family, London on Feb 10th, 2013 No Comments »
There is something about Caleb turning 12 that makes me feel old. But, he is maturing and becoming a great young man, there is no doubt in that! One of the first things Caleb wanted to do on his birthday was watch a Rated 12 movie (in the UK, that is the equivalent to PG-13). [...]
Posted in Family, Family Reunion, Holiday, Travel on Jan 5th, 2013 2 Comments »
The 2012 Stephensons After Christmas, the remainder of the Stephenson family arrived so we could have our annual Stephenson Reunion. This year we were coming from London, Singapore, Utah, and California. It’s always so fun when we can all be together in one spot! We have kind of outgrown Chris’s parents’ house . . . [...]
Posted in Christmas, Family, Holiday, Travel on Dec 26th, 2012 No Comments »
We were so looking forward to our Christmas in California with family! We calculated that it had been about 10 years since we’d spent Christmas with our extended family and we were excited for the opportunity. It was a long trip from London to California, but the excitement never ceased the entire way. And then [...]
Posted in Christmas, Family, London on Dec 7th, 2012 No Comments »
Last year for Christmas my parents gifted us with a voucher for theatre tickets. Not wanting them to go to waste, we kept waiting for the special time to use them. It seemed Christmas fit the bill so I got tickets for the whole family to go see Scrooge, basically a retelling of The Christmas [...]
Posted in Family, Friends, Holiday, London on Nov 25th, 2012 No Comments »
Thanksgiving in the UK is definitely different than being in the states. As Thanksgiving is just another day here . . . a normal work and school day . . . we waited to celebrate on Saturday. We were able to invite some friends from church, not all Americans, which made it fun. Outside of [...]
Posted in Family, School on Sep 18th, 2012 5 Comments »
An interesting thing happened this August that caught many off-guard . . . two of our children ventured off to ‘real school.’ May I say that I was one of those people?! Let me preface this by saying that I always thought of ourselves as ‘accidental homeschoolers’. It was never the plan to do this [...]