It has been a bit since I have done a journal post. Here were our every-day January moments ❄ Tonsil & Adenoid Surgery We kicked off January with a bang and Lydia had her tonsils and adenoids removed. It was a tough recovery but she is back to her normal self! CLICK HERE for more! …
Winter Bucket List ✔ I cannot remember if I wrote about this – but when we were celebrating the winter solstice in December our family made a Winter Bucket List. We have never done this before but we are LOVING it! We each picked one thing we wanted to do this winter. It has been …
I really don’t like starting another project before we have finished the last but…this is kind of a situation of “if you give a mouse a cookie…”. We started Sarah’s room refresh last March and we really went for it for a couple weeks and then we stopped. Truly, nothing done, until this last week. …
For Christmas this year, Mark gave Jacob, Sarah, and Benjamin tickets to the Colorado Symphony. This was a first for the kids and this last weekend they were able to attend. The Symphony was spotlighting Mark’s favorite composer, John Williams. And Mark has turned the kids into fellow John Williams fans. They can tell you …
Oh this sweet boy. My heart has been so tender with him the last several weeks. But my favorite part might have just been this – and I wasn’t even there for it! I love going to the house of the Lord. I love the spirit that is there. It feels like home. And I …
Oh goodness. I’ve been putting off writing this post. It has been a tough week almost two weeks. Back Story Remember when we had our disaster hospital stay back in November? That visit (mostly just that sleep study night) was horrible for Lydia. And it did a number on me. I came home feeling defeated. …
This was the fastest year of my life! Time really does go by quicker and quicker and I am trying my best to savor all of the moments. Mark was working on New Years Eve and so it was just me and the kidlets. And we are definitely to a stage in life where I …
Promptings of the Spirit by Elder Gary E. Stevenson was so timely for me. I revisited this message when I was in the thick of Christmas preparations. I was up late night after night trying to finish scrapbooks for my kids. It is a project of love and I am so grateful for them (and …