Here are six things making me smile today… 1.  Caleb is our little contrarian lately.  He will argue just for the sake of arguing.  Clothes, food, the color of the sky…you name it, he wants to argue about it.  BUT we do agree on one thing…Martha Stewart!  If we’re home I like to turn on…

I love this quote from Marjorie Hinckley (wife of Gordon B. Hinckley).  It’s easy sometimes to get stuck thinking about ourselves, but the pleasures and blessings that come when thinking and doing for others are so much sweeter.  "I don’t want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car,  wearing beautifully…

My crazy husband decided to participate in Cisco’s "Ride Your Bike to Work Day" today.  I’m sure the effort was somehow "green"…trying to cut down on carbon emissions and gas consumption.  And somehow associated with Earth Day yesterday.  Of course, for us, it wasn’t really about those things at all since I had to drive…

is as sweet as they come. But he’s teething, and grumpy, and screams at me all day long, because he’s teething. And he’s in to everything. I find shoes in cabinets. I find toys in bathtubs. And socks in trash cans. And I know exactly how they got there. Nap time is CRUCIAL these days. …

We had such a treat on Saturday when we were able to host Derek’s mission president and his wife (Ray and Mary White), and a former mission companion and his family (Chris and Stephanie Barnhurst/Joseph, Megan, Emily and Jonathan).  The White’s live about an hour from here.  They have served 3 missions (Florida, England and…

My boys had special treats this weekend when their Nana, their Uncle Mike and their Aunt Olivia came to their events.  Mike and Olivia are moving to Dallas from Austin soon, and are looking for a house.  We are so thrilled that they’ll be close and get to share in everyday kinds of things with…

For our weekly Family Night (on Monday evening) we thought it would be fun to fly kites.  We made that decision on Sunday when it was VERY windy.  Monday evening came and it was perfectly calm.  So it would be fitting for us to pick the most non-windy of days for kite flying.  But we…

Caleb lost his first tooth a week ago.  It is a good example of the disparity (by this I mean lack of similarity and not at all in equality, which they would have you believe…everything is a competition these days) between our two oldest boys.  Case in point… Caleb showed me last Saturday morning that…

A couple of weeks ago I was trying to clean up and put away all of the Easter stuff for another year.  I found lots of little pieces of Easter candy that I did not want hanging around any longer than needful.  So I did the unthinkable… ME: "Boys, guess what?" BOYS: "What?" ME: "See…

The Hicken’s and Dalebout’s came over on Sunday to watch the last session of General Conference (a broadcast from Salt Lake held every 6 months by the general leadership of our Church) and to have dinner with us.  We have such a good time with these two amazing families.  It’s always fun.  Always lively.  Always…