We're Off!

To Salt Lake for a day to visit Lew and do Salt Lake specific chores ie: shop, repair bosch, early morning walk with my old walking buddies...

To Lake Powell for a week of memory making with the Nelsons and a Fathers Day extravaganza.

To St. George to visit our long lost Klingonsmiths!

To the airport to say goodbye to Doug, he has to go back to work.

Just me and the kiddos to Arizona to spend an unspecified amount of time with family. My grandma Martha will be at my parents house and I can't wait to see her! She has yet to meet Jennie, can you imagine life without meeting my Jennie?

And then back home. Doug is my home. I'm already missing him.

Joseph's Birthday/ Baptism

Joseph's birthday breakfast... Chocolate and Butterscotch chip waffles, he's been talking about them since that day at your house Elise. Yum!


Doughnuts in class! My papa started this tradition. Joe's favorite is the maple one and he talked it up to his classmates all day, so when I brought two assorted boxes in just before the bell rang, every kid wanted a maple. They were good and some of them split one. I hope I can channel Joseph's ability to persuade when he gets a little older and the stakes are a little higher than doughnuts.


Joseph was so excited for his baptism. I'll never forget his smile in the font, he was positively beaming!


He had a ton of support with Abuella and Grandpa, Lewis, Grandma and Grandpa "C", Mishawn, Micah, Brock, Tanner, McCall, Jaymie and us of course making it to his baptism. His friends Maren, Parker and Addison were able to come too.

Thanks for making the trip everyone. You really made the day just perfect. Abuella, he loves navigating his new scriptures, and Grandma "C", he loves his green afghan. Thank you so much!

Lucky Jennie gets a Mural from Grandpa "C"

I bought the paint and that was all! Grandpa "C" prepped the wall...

voiced how my ideas were looking through his eyes...

Gave us a white tree with two birdies...

A pink tree with four birdies...

Resulting in the cutest little girl mural I've ever seen.

We all LOVE it! Thank you George!

Someday for Joseph's Birthday

I've been thinking a LOT about room design. I hate doing it, but with Doug's father coming and painting on Jennie's wall, I'm consumed. My friend Autumn led me to this site and I'm in love with the Napoleon wall... I don't think I'd do him exactly, we're clean Jack Black fans over here. I think Joe would love something like that when we finish the basement someday.

Happy Birthday Joe! Someday.