This weekend, we've been picking cherries. The cherries on our huge cherry tree out back have ripened this weekend. This is our firs...

As part of my on-going quest to avoid sliding deeper into hermit status (and I'm serious about that--I can get in a rut where I real...

Last Saturday, I climbed Mount Timpanogos. I’ll let that sink in for a minute. Maybe that doesn’t mean anything to you. I’ll explain a l...

I don't have a giveaway put together yet. I'm disappointed that I haven't made it there yet. My readers are so important to me...

If you didn’t catch it, the title is dripping with sarcasm, so much “drip” in fact, that I could water a garden with it or take a nice, long...

I’m pleased to report that my “bad” children are attempting reform. Griffin has stopped speaking in one word sentences for the mos...

If we are friends on Facebook, I sincerely apologize to all of you for my dreary status updates over the past two weeks. I suspect someone m...

I feel like I've been neglecting my poor little blog. School just eats up so much of my time. It's interesting that the teaching met...

This is a blatant brag post. If you don't feel like reading a gushy post about my husband, back out slowly now and run away. I won't...

David and the boys went camping for the night, so Aubrey and I are hanging out at home. I painted her nails. Then we went to Iceberg (yes, H...

I don’t know if you’ve met my daughter, but she is a character. I’m not sure if it’s the product of three older brothers, genetics or our pa...

Actually, I asked David to make them clean the bathroom. We only have one bathroom. With four males using it, it gets grody. I hate cleaning...

I’m trying to lose weight. I like being skinny. I like my clothes to fit. I’ve been slowly losing both of those over the last year. I’m not ...

I love being a parent. I particul...

Me and My Nephew, Hyrum. Children suck brain cells. Of all the things about parenting, this was the one I was least...

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. NOT SUITALBE FOR SQUEAMISH STOMACHS OR PREGNANT WOMEN OR PEOPLE WHO HAVE SWINE FLU (WHAT ARE YOU DOIN...