Smithsonians

What a long, long day. I'm exhausted! We started out today by frantically getting our house ready for pictures. Stephanie came over and ...

Today was our last day at church. Bittersweet. We only were a family of four when we moved into this ward. Wow. We have really enjoyed our w...

After a long day of packing, Mike and I went out to dinner with our good friends. We went to the Cheesecake Factory since Teresa knows I lov...

Stockton had his friend, Clayton, over today. He was able to stay until just after 10. Stockton was so excited to see him all day. Clayton a...

Last year, the day before school started, we found out Maysen needed braces. (That came as no surprise to us) Anyway, I sat at the office fo...

Mike and I celebrated our 15th wedding anniversary today. Mike had his last day at work. They took him out to Waffle House (Mike's choic...

Stephanie invited a few friends over for a small going away party for me. It was really, really fun. We just sat at her kitchen table and ta...

Brother Rivers called today to ask Maysen to give a talk in Sacrament Meeting on the 19th. Oooo. Too bad. We will have moved. Maysen was...

We were pretty late getting to bed tonight. Mike asked Stockton to say the prayer. He didn't want to. Mike said the prayer. Among ot...

Jorja had a GREAT day today. She had her early birthday party, and loved it. Jorja just wanted her friends to come to her house. We had c...

We spent most of the day doing school and packing. Exciting. Maysen, Jorja and I did work on a cake for Jorja's party tomorrow. I jus...

Stephanie and I went out to lunch at Gabe's today. I had a Po Boy, or something like that. Stephanie got the catfish. It was nice to ...

Well, I didn't....Mike did today. He gave his boss his two weeks notice. His boss was really nice about it. Mike mentioned that one o...

Preston and Jorja were at the counter painting. Preston decided to paint Jorja's shirt. I told him that he was done painting. He didn...

I'm on my way to Figgletrot, I've heard it's west of 'ere. Just follow the setting sun Straight on 'til mornin' come...

Today we had two of my favorite people over for dinner, Jakob and Tito. We had turkey and scones. Yummm. It was so nice just to sit and chat...

Yesterday as we were saying our nightly prayers, Mike blessed that someone would want to buy our house. As soon as the prayer was over, Pres...

Jorja passed out invitations to her birthday party today. They turned out really cute. I just used a Walmart template. We had the three pict...

On Sunday, Jorja was asked to give a talk. Her talk was on how miracles come to those who have faith. She worked hard on her talk and prac...

So Stockton was sick today. He threw up at least six times. Poor kid. Pretty cool that he was able to still get his schoolwork done. So many...

Tonight we were talking about home safety. Mike told Jorja that if there was a fire, she needed to get out of the house FAST. Don't st...

So..... things have been happening here this past week that I haven't wanted to blog about. Mike has now accepted a job offer and we wi...

We had Stephanie and her family over for dinner tonight. At church, the little kids have started calling Stephanie The Giant Lady . Pretty...

We were finally able to go swimming. The entire family went so it was really fun. Alyssa met us there so Jorja was really happy. She had ...

Jorja is sleeping over at Alyssa's house. Her first sleepover. She has wanted one for a long time. She went over for a movie, but soon S...

We are starting to get comfortable with homeschool. Maysen is really easy. She just powers through her work, and needs little from me. St...

Today my mom would have turned 63. Wow. I can't even imagine it. We had cake/cupcakes to celebrate. I only took pictures of the cupc...

Mike went to Utah last weekend for a job interview. He was able to go boating with his family, which was fun for him. Shannon sent him home ...

Today we started homeschool. I made Maysen and Stockton pose for their first day of school pictures. Gotta still have those. Then we took th...