Although the coverage of the Olympics hasn't been great for our viewing hours this year, that hasn't stopped the kids from getting into it as usual, evidenced by the following in-home competitions:   The skeleton (thank goodness for the helmet, right?!)  Also love the starting gun…    Ice skating in Great-Grandma Jessop's slippers on the…

Q:  Why is the roll of toilet paper on the counter?   A:  this is why.

Playing battleship for nearly 2 hours was not on my to-do list for the day… but it turns out it was exactly what I needed to do this morning.  (For the record it was amazing that Meg happily took pegs in and out of the bottom of my case the whole time, we actually finished…

Meg is in a serious (Frozen) princess phase, and lately has been insisting I wear this crown all the time.  (Like whenever I take it off she makes me bow down like Elsa in the movie so she can put it back on…)If you see me wearing it to pick up the kids from school…

Someone in our house has decided the best way to get totally dry in a hurry is to run 4 laps in the hallway in his birthday suit after ditching his towel on the bathroom floor.  I am usually laughing too hard to lecture on the impropriety of it… also, he is convinced he is…

Feeling so incredibly grateful for these munchkins.

Yes, Eleven.  Eleven years of this boy teaching me something new pretty much every single day.    (love that Emma made him relocate to the "birthday chair". ) These years just keep creeping up on me!  It was a difficult thing for me to process that he couldn't count the years with fingers this year……

I hate missed opportunities – perhaps to a fault.  (for better or worse, Zach has inherited this trait from me.)  So when I heard that the BYU art museum had an exhibit of several famous religious painters that was unprecedented, it went right on our to-do list for Christmas break.   The excerpt from the…

Nate + a couple of days off in a row + being left alone with my phone… I laughed so hard (and left it up for a while, because every time he texted me it looked like the text was coming out of his mouth 🙂 Extended Adams family Christmas party (none of our kids…

Despite the fact that he was feeling a little under the weather, Carter was beyond excited to have his night out at the Jazz game with Dad.   I am not sure anyone enjoys their popcorn more!