Static archive of a family blog, 2008–2017. This blog is no longer active.
family blog, 2008–2017
Nothing really worthy of blogging, but I'm just so excited. On Friday, Chad and I are going to the temple because the young women are babysitting (if you are in the area, give Bonnie a call.) We are going to a big band night, basically,…
I'm not crazy about the song, but I absolutely love this! Spend the next few minutes and have a little party, watch this! Party in the USA
My friend Robin wrote a beautiful blog post and it puts my feelings for so many people into words. So I'm just going to quote her. I love you all for so many reasons! Happy Valentines Month :) And Chad, thanks for being my hot…
I have been couponing (is that a word?) for about a month now. I spend an hour and a half cutting out the coupons from my 5 papers Sunday night. I have a 2" zipper binder full of coupons in baseball card holders that I…
My sweet baby boy turned 4. I hope that means that the real terrible year is over, but I'm not holding my breath. Just kidding, kind of, those of you with 3 year olds know what I'm talking about. But moving on.... The first words…
Here is a video of Auretta being funny and being herself. I had the webcams display on the monitor and she noticed that she was on the screen. This was her response.
For Christmas I made the kids a card table tent. I used a tunnel toy we have to make an igloo type of thing. Turned out pretty cute and they like it, but it is a lot more work than I expected.
We just got back from a wonderful Montana Christmas. The gift giving for me started when Candace took Patrick and Auretta with her up to Dillon the Saturday before Christmas and we didn't go up until Wednesday. I got the kitchen painted and some sleep.…
Driving back yesterday we decided that it is time to toss the pacifiers. Is it possible to have 3 children and no pacifiers? We put Auretta in the crib in our room so we didn't have to deal with her getting up and crying and…
I have this problem; I like to learn new things and I like to try new things. As a result I end up putting more on my plate than I can handle (which incidentally is also my problem with food. Weird). I get all of…