When talking about going on a HUGE playground slide: “When I become a boy, I’ll go down the big slide.” Hopefully, we’ve cleared up that mis...

Um, it’s summer already. Wow! There was a whirlwind at the end of the school year and lots of activities for the final days of school and th...

This here is our Wild Thing, our Elsie. Her hair rivals what mine looked like as a kid. My mom called me “Lion Lady” when I was young. Elsie...

Growing up, I feel like I had good communication with my parents. I’d talk with my mom a lot and when chances arose, I’d talk with my dad to...

To celebrate a big birthday for Jess’s dad, we set off to California. Riding in the shuttle + plane + Uber + boat to get to Catalina Island ...

So many good things come from a three year old, Elsie is no exception.  When something is not matching her timetable, she says, “It’s taking...

Easter this year was surrounded by snow, General Conference, and Spring Break. As such, we didn’t have our usual neighborhood Easter Egg hun...

…use the same piece of paper. You get this: Oliver with math homework and Elsie with some creature doodling. Gotta love it!

Ansel had a birthday! He’s in the double digits now. Whoa! How’d we get here? He wanted Legos for his birthday and to eat at Royal India for...

It ain’t that bad. In fact, it’s actually quite nice, especially when the weather is sunny and in the 40s. Beautiful scenery, less crowds, a...