I just love my kids.  I just went to kiss them goodnight before I put Carter in his bed (and then wait for him to wake up 5 minutes later, and snuggle in with him on the couch) – and Emma is sleeping in her ballet shoes and Zach in his t-ball shirt.  They were…

So it's been a couple of weeks and I am finally getting around to posting about this!  We took a pretty spur-of-the-moment Memorial Day weekend trip to Nauvoo when some people in our ward offered up some cheap lodging that offset the price of gas – and it was wonderful.  We were able to stay…

Can you tell that we went to "free Thursday" at the art center today?  This sticker started out on my shirt…  I didn't notice it till I laid him down.  The art center was quite an adventure… they were showing the works of Roman Signer, a Swiss contemporary artist who uses ordinary objects as art.…

For my birthday several years ago Nate gave me a wipe-off calendar that I just love.  It is my solution to being too clumsy to own a palm pilot or an iphone (besides the fact that I'd drop it, I've also just never been interested in one… Nate can't believe I reject such wonderful technology!)…

So tonight when Nate was mowing the lawn before a busy night of studying Emma lost a marker (without the cap) way under the fridge.  Trying to be helpful and give Nate a break (since he already had detoured on the way home to retrieve the baseball mitt Zach had left at the park), I…

This garden was one of my favorite parts of Nauvoo… it was a statue garden dedicated to women, and I expected it to be statues of pioneer women from the city.  Instead, it was a beautiful depiction of womanhood in all its stages… starting with a young woman, with statues depicting spiritual and intellectual growth,…

Doesn't it make you smile, too?

Everybody loves to hold Carter.  Aren't they good helpers!

Tonight was Emma’s last dance class, and they let parents watch the second half for a little “performance”. Emma was a little sad in class last week and it carried over for a little bit today – but she actually told me tonight she liked dance better than baseball (which is saying something!) so overall…

Nate took Zach and Emma to Zach’s preschool’s carnival Saturday and came home with this, which the kids have dubbed “the blue booger” (gross.) They throw it as high up on the wall as they can and then throw things at it to get it down. Nate and I both remembered getting these sticky hands…