Emma had a bunch of school/neighborhood friends that were playing soccer this spring, and she decided to give it a try.  She loved it.  It was fun for us to see how much more into it she was than when she played in MN.  She scored a goal in one of her first games, and…

One of the benefits of living in UT is having a grandparent to come to grandparent day!  Zach and Emma were excited to have Grandma Adams visit their classes and take them out to lunch!  (And Carter was excited to be in the picture afterwards.  :)

When Carter's school advertised their end of the year "circus", I wasn't sure what to expect – what I did not expect, however, was that the kids would be the circus.  (I would have known this if I would have read more carefully!)  It was great.  The boys in Carter's class were the "strong men."  Awesome.…

I got to go with Zach's class to their end-of-the-year field trip to This is the Place Heritage Park, and it was so fun.  It has been fun to get to know the kids in his class this year – it was a huge class, with 36 kids!  (bless his poor, retiring teacher's heart!) The…

  Few things make me as happy as seeing them all happily reading!  (yes, that is why there are 3 very similar pictures.  :)  Today, Carter got to bring home the rest of his books from school and they all sat on the porch and read them together.   He has been waiting and waiting…

   Since the weather has been so nice lately, Meg and Carter and I have taken some walks down to a park by our house in the mornings.  Somehow we started a "dragon" game – I think it may have started with Carter thinking the playset looked like a castle – and all of a…

We had been wanting to go to the family history center in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building for a while, and thought that it would be a great FHE activity.  Nate ended up being out of town, but we had so much fun (and didn't get to everything!) that we'll take him back.   (love…

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(love that Carter wanted to be in the picture and then stuck out his tongue!) It had been almost 3 years since we'd seen our old/best-ever neighbors… but it sure didn't feel like that when they stopped by our house for a quick visit today!   After the dramatic entrance of a bee right before…

Well, we really should have taken some before/after pictures, but all we got were ones in the middle.   playing in the sawdust (which filled those blue baseball socks and the dryer…) And enjoying the sturdy new shelves… someone wanted to sleep up there, and someone else was more than ready to get down, can you…