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Tuesday, October 20, 2026

misc

Sam was asked to fill in as Ward Chorister while they looked for a replacement. He did well too. Especially since the first song they threw at him was in 6/4 time. 

Jer and Sam training for their 1/2 marathon in Nov.



All three of these marvellous Priests decided to give their testimonies of Jesus Christ.  I am going to miss all their faces while they are missionaries, but one in particular.

We've had a lot of rain.... and a lot of snow in the mountains.  We're so grateful and wet.


Seth had Xander, Zak and Chris (his three elementary besties) over to play volleyball.  They are as cute as ever!

Tuesday, September 8, 2026

Random doings


Syl hid all of her mice under the fridge.  I pulled them out, which made her happy... but then she proceeded to start batting them back under the fridge again.

I pulled out the eggs to make dinner and ended up having to clean the floor, fridge and inside the freezer.

We took Seth to the Provo City Center temple for the first time.  That was fun.

It was so hot this year that we didn't get many flowers.  We finally got some blooms a month late.

Seth got his birthday present legos and was in love with them... he's so cute.

I took two photo shoots at the Oquirrh Mountain temple in the last two weeks.


Ada and I got to see the gilded doors at BYU before she moved out.

I went to help mow the lawn and ended up eating raspberries as a yummy reward.

 

Tuesday, August 18, 2026

Birthdays and errands

Took Ada for a pre college hair cut.... She's looking nice and pretty!

This little guy kept me company while I got the van tires patched up.  

Jer is amazing and made these for his mom and for Cristina.  They turned out so pretty.

We got to celebrate Judy's birthday with some of the Hansens, Brashers and a Morisse.


Cute second cousins

Ada. my helper!

Syl likes to watch Jer's trains.

 

Sam's FSY

Ada had a disco party with her friends.

I made lentils while Sam was away.

Syl wanted to help write in Ada's Book of Mormon journal with me.

Jer dropped Sam off at the UVU FSY, I got to pick him up.  He had a great time and has had a renewed commitment to personal scripture studying. I love this sweet boy of mine and it's an absolute joy to see his spirit grow.

 

Wednesday, July 29, 2026

 

This week has been fun and busy.  I got bitten by what looked like a brown recluse about a week ago when we did an outdoor movie with my friend, Michelle.  I didn't see the spider, but the bite looks like a mild reaction to a brown recluse and Sam has been bitten by one at our house before so it would make sense to be the same thing.  It's doing better, but it's sore to touch and was very painful for a couple of days.

My friend, Beth, invited me to the makerspace at the library.  We were making faux stained glass.  


We had a good rainstorm along with several 100+ degree days.  Some of the wild flowers that I planted stopped looking like weeds and actually bloomed.  That's been nice.

Sam has been helping me with daycare.... Ada took over for a couple of days so that Sam could recover from getting his wisdome teeth out, but he's back. (And Ada now has a 5th wisdom tooth that they found at the dentists this week.  Only 1-2% of the population have more than 4.  Lucky duck.)

Syl has starting sleeping on top of my bookshelf. 

My daycare kids wanted to take a picture and they were all standing in a circle so I took one of their feet.  That's one that I can post legally.

We played two games of Forbidden desert/island.  Seth, Evelyn and I won within a few minutes so I think forbidden desert might be the easier game of the two.

Ada is officially an EMT!  Now that she's certified, she's on the job hunt.

Our neighbor, Blake, was in Hadestown, so Jer watched the daycare for the last hour and I took the three oldest to see it.  The story stinks and the music, dancing and acting were great. 



The finished library

Saturday, we helped my parents cut down two of their fruit trees that had gotten a fungus.  It went pretty fast and the kids did great.




The Avatar Aang movie came out. We watched it with Avatar themed dinner.  Chicken skewers (Sokka and meat skewers), russian tea for Uncle Iroh, and cookie dough for the day that the avatar was not boiled in oil.  And veggies because we need veggies.


Evelyn played prelude for church last Sunday.  She was nervous, but you could see as she played that her hands became more steady and the nerves left her.  She did a great job and I'm very proud of her.

Our AC unit in the church has been out the last two weeks.  They ordered parts but they aren't in yet.  The were able to find some big fans and our neighbor had about 200 leftover folding fans from a summer wedding that they weren't sure what to do with.


Our anti person cat sure doesn't mind cuddling with Seth for cat naps.

Seth is doing a Robotics camp for a couple of weeks.  His friend, Gabe, happened to walk in on the first day and they've been having a blast.

I dropped Evelyn off with Ada as a driving buddy.... for a week at FSY.  She's at Snow college this year and having a blast. I've gotten texts from her nightly.  Sam is at UVU and I haven't heard a peep from him.  I hope he's having a great time too.  Dad took him a copy of Bang and I bet they'll take advantage of that.


We saw the new Ephraim temple while we were dropping her off.  It's so pretty.

Syl likes Jer's trains too.


I made lentils for dinner while Sam was gone.  They're so yummy!  I like having Sam around more than I like lentils though.... he's a sweetie pie.

Elise, Alexx and Ada played a cooking game where they made breakfast while one couldn't see, hear or speak.  It was funny.




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