This little sweetheart is growing up! We both agreed that twelve feels so much older than eleven! But we loved celebrating our girl. For her birthday breakfast, Sarah requested crepes with all the extras, bacon, and chocolate milk. It was oh so yummy. Then we got ready and made our way to the arcade! Sarah …
I have finished another book! Oh goodness, this project has brought me so much joy. Last year, I finished my first family history book (the first I hope of many, many more). I explained ALL my thoughts and feelings about this project on that post, so click HERE if you want to read more. The …
Happy First Day of School! It’s going to be a great year! Jacob is a Freshman Sarah is in Sixth Grade Benjamin is in Fourth Grade Lydia is in Second Grade
Our every day August moments ☀️ County Fair Summer Bucket List ✔️ A favorite summer tradition. Read all about it HERE. The Good and the Beautiful Spotlight I have been a big supporter of The Good and the Beautiful company for many years – almost since it began. I was so pleasantly surprised when I …
On Monday we celebrated our Back to School Feast. I love this tradition. I felt like this new school year snuck up on me a little bit. We are in a busy stage of life right now and it is stretching me in all sorts of ways, and I am trying to be patient with …
Our final day of Camp de Vida 2026! We started things off with our morning devotional. Today we studied The Living Christ and it was so beautiful. Then we went and visited the Weld County Veterans Memorial. We have driven by this so many times but never stopped and I am so glad we did. …
We are so happy we were able to celebrate our favorite man. We celebrated with his favorite Mexican food, a chocolate zucchini bundt cake with ice cream, cards, presents, and lots of phone calls from family. We love you, Mark. Thank you for being who you are. You are our favorite.
Day 3 of Camp de Vida was wonderful! Morning Devotional We started with our morning devotional. This day was all about the Atonement. We talked about how it can be hard during difficult times to feel like anyone understand, but there is someone who truly understands us and our individual situations. He suffered so we …
Our second day of Camp de Vida turned out to be much shorter than we anticipated. But life happens and life got busy that day! We had to divide and conquer a bit, but we still had some great memory-making time together. Well Gulch Mark and “the bigs” left early for a morning hike. They …
2026 Camp de Vida has begun! This is our third year of doing this really unique thing as a family. There is something special about family time – the spontaneous moments that let you feel what true joy is like. But there is also something really special about the more structured times too – the …