Smithsonians

We had a special stake conference today.  Elder Neil L. Anderson spoke.  Not Neil A. Anderson like we heard him referred to twice today. On...

My family came over for a swim party today.  I invited everyone I could think of that lived in Utah and who is related to the Parrys.  Exce...

Our house is sparkly clean right now.  I love it!  We had house appraisers come this morning.  We need to borrow some money from our house ...

Today is my dad's birthday.  I took him to Bruges for breakfast.  They just opened one really close to his house, so that's fun.  T...

I watched Anne today.  She is a lot easier than she was a year ago!  I kept her awake until I went to get Maysen at 12:30.  I didn't wa...

Today Mike and I celebrated our 20th anniversary.  I feel so lucky.  I have no idea what I did to be so blessed, but I'm very grateful....

We spent today working around the house.  It is nice to have an extra day with Mike home.  Jorja and Preston made butterfinger cookies. The...

Today was kind of a relaxing day.  Except for the fact that Mike was in extreme pain the rest of the day.  I really hope the dentist can fi...

I started driving home around 7:00.  Usually I start driving earlier.  I was up earlier, but the wind was blowing like crazy.  I was too ne...

My cousin Tammi's son was married today.  We were planning on bringing the entire family.  Jorja really didn't want to miss softbal...

Mike had two giant presentations to give at his work today.  He won a hundred dollars for having the most voted on presentation.  He thinks...

I was so lucky to be able to go to lunch today with my friends.  All of our kids are in school now, so you would think it would be easy to ...

Jorja went to see the movie Once I Was a Beehive for Young Womens. She loved it.  She has started to be really outgoing.  It is so great t...

Two of my scouts have September birthdays.  As a result, I decided to do gingerbread early.  The scouts loved it, but they are way differen...

After church Mike helped me get the gingerbread houses put together. I made nine this time.  Seven for the scouts, one for Judy (the other ...

Nothing too exciting today.  Chores, softball practice, more chores, watched Max, and probably more chores.  Jorja said she wanted a Saturd...

I spent most of the day in the kitchen.  I'm planning on doing gingerbread houses on Monday for scouts.  Two of my scouts will leave ne...

Maysen found someone in her early morning seminary class that also goes to the morning college classes to give her a ride.  His name is Dav...

Jorja had her first softball game tonight.  I can not believe how different she is.  She's laughing with friends, dancing when she is o...

We had Back-to-School night for Maysen and Stockton.  I took Maysen's schedule and Mike took Stockton's.  I was able to go to Stock...

Maysen started her vet program today.  We are going to have her drive and all the other kids take the bus.  Jorja is not a fan of this plan...

This is Mike.  I am guest-blogging today.  While Steph and Maysen were galavanting around Alaska with Steph's college roommate last w...

Jorja made delicious cookies before softball practice.  When I picked her up she said, "I really love catcher."  Glad she still l...