Birthdays are simple at my house. We don't spend a lot of money on extravagant gifts. My kids are happy with a small stuffed animal and ...

Drew saves things. He will leave on his mission next summer and I will miss finding his treasures around my house.  Drew especially likes to...

This is the cutest story that Eve wrote about building a barn with her "Grapop". Love these memories.

We have a few cows that my kids raise and sell for beef.   My dad called a couple weeks ago and offered to come and help us build a small ba...

A friend gave me a cross-stitch pattern for a sampler that I love. I think it was called Mystery Marquis.   Here is the sampler that someone...

Anna played a prim and proper wife who dies in the high-school play Blythe Spirits.  She had SO MANY lines and was darling to watch. Anna is...

Ellie is always making things, beautiful things.  I love that about her. I love her.  This morning, I was running late for church and when I...

She has freckles on her nose and is my only baby who had dark hair that didn't turn light. At parent-teacher conference her teacher said...

The truth is that I am weird, I’m not someone who has ever had one best friend or one favorite ice cream flavor. I love people, I hav...

The best part about going back to graduate school at age 40, is spending ALL DAY with my favorite professor.  He carries my messenger bag ev...

I love my gang. Today, I started crying as I took a picture of Drew during the costume parade at the elementary school.  The custom here in ...

On Monday, my classes start at 1 p.m. and end at 8 p.m. It's a long day. When I got home, Ellie said she had picked out costumes for her...

I got pretty sick last week. There was an afternoon I thought I had the mumps (it is going around SU). I don't have mumps and I'm fi...