Posted in Emma on Oct 29th, 2008 7 Comments »
As of today, Emma is beginning a new decade of her life as she turns 10 years old!! She has entered the ‘double digits’ and couldn’t be more excited! In the last few years we’ve had a family outing to celebrate Emma’s birthday but this year she decided she’d like to have a ‘girl day’ [...]
Posted in Family, Holiday on Oct 28th, 2008 6 Comments »
After Sunday dinner, Chris and I wearily looked at each other as we were both thinking the same thing – we still had to get through Family Home Evening. We love Family Home Evening but Caleb was in charge and we were carving pumpkins. Carving 3-4 pumpkins takes more than an hour and we didn’t [...]
Posted in Becca on Oct 26th, 2008 7 Comments »
It really hit me last night – the nerves, the sleeplessness, the anticipation, the desire to have it done with. I don’t know how, but I finally fell asleep only to wake up to the realization that today was THE day – the day of our branch’s Primary Program. I was a flurry of nerves [...]
Posted in Becca, Kids on Oct 19th, 2008 10 Comments »
During the last 6 months we were anticipating some big changes for our family and when those died out, I realized I had been living my life for the future. I found myself rationalizing my behavior or happiness level because, “when such-and-such happens, I will be a better mother” . . . “when such-and-such happens, [...]
Posted in Becca on Oct 14th, 2008 12 Comments »
Even though my house may not look like it, I have been trying very hard to keep up with my household chores. I noticed that the laundry was starting to look a little overgrown so decided to do laundry (even though it’s not yet laundry day). I asked Emma to bring her dirty clothes downstairs [...]
Posted in Chris on Oct 12th, 2008 5 Comments »
Yesterday we woke up to Cami serenading us with “I Wanna Wish You a Merry Christmas.” It just so happened to be Chris’s birthday so we quickly helped her to adapt her tune to include ‘happy birthday.’ We heard it A L L day LONG! But, it made us smile every time! [mygal=chris_34_cake] We were [...]
Posted in Scrapbooking on Oct 10th, 2008 4 Comments »
Jessica Sprague (one of my favorite resources for digital scrapbooking) is teaching and offering a free, one-week class on her site (jessicasprague.com) on the topic of collecting stories you want to tell. It’s called Stories In Hand. You don’t have to be a scrapbooker to take this class. You don’t have to be a digital [...]
Posted in Friends, Kids on Oct 4th, 2008 4 Comments »
We enjoyed having a few new members in our branch over the summer due to those here selling security systems. Well, summer is over and we’ve had to reluctantly let them return to their real homes. Most of those here were single or young married couples, but we were able to find friends in the [...]
Posted in Becca on Oct 2nd, 2008 1 Comment »
I found the most wonderful news this morning – BYU marching band has its own hall now! For those of you who think this is not something to jump up and down over – you must never have been in marching band. While marching band is very fun to be in – great friends, free [...]