Smithsonians

After cleaning the bathrooms with the kids, showering and getting ready for the day, I was anxious to get to the temple.  It is the last da...

The kids had today off of school.  Mike also had today off.  Matt called around lunch time because he realized he left a part of Anne's...

I was a bit frustrated with Preston this morning.  I had been gone so much this week that I wasn't able to personally oversee that his ...

Parent/teacher conferences at the high school went from 4-8 today.  I was there the entire time.  Maysen got extra credit if she attended f...

It is weird not going to the youth activities on Thursday.  I walked with Jorja and Kristin down to Sue's house.  I thought about going...

For scouts we played with secret messages.  The boys seemed to enjoy it.  They liked making messages for the other boys to decipher.  We al...

Preston is going to be so mad if he sees this post.  After Preston and Jorja went to bed, Mike, Maysen and I played Settlers of Catan with ...

A few weeks ago Mike started doing Time With Dad again.  The kids have been thrilled.  Stockton has Monday, Preston has Tuesday, Jorja has...

We went to a Chinese New Year party at Lisa and Nathan's house.  The year of the goat/sheep/ram.  They had a lot of yummy food!  They h...

Maysen and I made lasagna today.  It was delicious.  That seems to be all I can remember about today.

Stockton and I went to the library today to get a banned book.  He had a two page list of different books.  He has to read a banned book fo...

I didn't get any good pictures from tonight.  Drat!  After volunteering in Preston's class I went and helped set up for the banquet...

Today was great!  We didn't do anything really blog worthy, but it was so nice to have an extra day at home.  Mike got today off as wel...

Friday I got a text asking if I could sub for a primary class.  There are five boys in this class and no girls.  I said okay, but I was a l...

I talked Mike into going to the gym today.  We went to this 'couples extreme' class.  It was pretty fun and funny.  We did all sort...

Jorja was pretty excited that they were going exchange valentines at school.  She spent all week making heart shaped chocolate chip cookies...

Stockton had his state diving competition today.  It was during school. He was not happy about that at all.  Stockton hates school, but he ...

Stockton took the National Math test at the beginning of this month. They were able to bring the booklet of questions home.  Some of the qu...

I stayed at diving just so I could watch Stockton's two and a half.  Here is is for your viewing pleasure!

Becky, Jacqui, Jenny and I all went out to lunch today.  We went to a place called Stella's.  I had never heard of it.  It is about thi...

Today we left the cabin.  Boo!  It is always sad to drive away from the cabin.  We went through Wyoming and got home at a decent hour. That...

Jorja made pancakes this morning.  I tried a red hot chocolate chip pancake and it was delicious!  Bubs and Ange took their kids to Idaho F...

I absolutely hate the fact that I can't sleep in.  I was up at 6:00 and knew there was no chance of me getting back to sleep.  Preston ...

Jorja and Preston had the day off of school. Jorja REALLY wanted to watch Anne.  I watch Anne about one Thursday a month.  When Matt was ma...

I had a scout meeting tonight.  I guess we have one of those a month. Who knew?  We planned the Blue and Gold Banquet.  This year is going ...

Tonight was really weird.  I folded laundry instead of going to Young Womens.  Becky, Jacqui and I kept texting each other about how weird ...

Sue had handed out a scout schedule for the next three months.  She didn't have scouts for today or next week because today she is havi...

Today was an emotional day.  The Young Women's presidency was released.  We had been serving for almost three and a half years.  I have...

Stockton had his regional diving competition today at BYU.  He did so great!  He scored 192.15 which is about 50 points higher than he was ...

Today was really fun.  Preston had short day.  He only gets that once a month now and I really miss it!  We decided to play Dominion once h...