On their last day here in Georgia, we took Rick’s family to the traditional “Southern” amusement park, Stone Mountain. Between the shows (A Southern Fried version of Romeo and Juliet and a Circus show featuring our children as the ballerina butterflies), the train ride, the tram ride up the mountain, the big barn (a great [...]
We feel very blessed to have L in our family. Not only is he a very good baby who loves to smile and laugh and sleeps through most nights, but we have been awaiting his arrival in our family for quite a while. I was pregnant with a molar pregnancy almost two years before he [...]
Okay. It was a toss up. The title of this post was either going to be “High on the Mountaintop” or “Give Said the Little Stream,” but since most of the pictures were of everyone tubing down the river, I had to go with the Primary song! The second day we spent with Rick’s parents [...]
I always thought the thing I would remember most about Madison were the beautiful historic homes, but I don’t think I will ever remember Madison without thinking of falling trees. We decided to take the walking tour of all of the old homes and were just heading down a new street and commenting on a [...]
This is the best way to describe the last few weeks. As soon as we got back from Nauvoo (which Rick will be blogging about soon) we were hard at work painting and getting ready for Grandpa & Grandma “Horsey” (aka G&G West) to come visit and I was also starting heavily into my classes. [...]
We don’t have cable, but I’m still an HGTV junkie. Aside from the obvious physical benefits of having a gym membership, one of the main reasons I go to the gym is to get my HGTV fix. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on the way you look at it) I’ve recently figured out that I can [...]
This year we had the joy of watching a child learn to read. That really is an amazing thing. One day we are spelling C-A-T, and then all of a sudden—BOOM!— it all clicked for D. and she was reading. It was amazing how it almost happened overnight, and she caught the reading bug and [...]
We have a fun tradition in our family called “The Green Book”. I know that sounds underwhelming, but it’s really fun. This is, well, for lack of better description, a little green book where we write the fun, silly, or spiritual stories from our children as they grow up (and their parents as they grow [...]
I just asked Rick about the “Comment Rules” that come up when you try to post a comment. Although we both agree with most of what is said in the comment rules, we figure most of the people viewing our blog are pretty aware of this and aren’t likely to post something of which we [...]
No, this is not a reference to the age of the apostles. We were sitting at the breakfast table this morning talking about the Lewis and Clark expedition and Rick made a comment about them practically tripping over a fossil. Just then D walked up and repeated “Tripped over an apostle?” I guess I shouldn’t [...]
