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In the weeks leading up to Halloween I kept hinting at Emily that she was too old to go trick-or-treating and she kept saying “this will be my last year Dad”. I didn’t forbid her from going and she managed to finagle an angel costume from her Aunt Janey so she joined ranks of [...]

This is how the pumpkins began their journey to Jack-o-Lantern bliss.

This past Monday night instead of a regular Family Home Evening we carved five of our pumpkins that we grew in our garden. We let Emily and Anne have their own way with their pumpkins, and mom and dad helped the other three kids [...]

Now that I am in my late thirties I don’t like to celebrate my birthday quite as much as I used to. This year I had a great low-key birthday. I went out to sushi, had cake and ice cream with the family, and I bought myself a new serger how can it [...]

When Grandma and Grandpa came over at the beginning of the month, they left us with some NuSkin products. Among the products was some hair gel. Sam was the happy recipient of the hair gel and wanted immediately to get spiky hair. I think grandpa tried to spike his hair, but it [...]

Yesterday Luppin made a big achievement in her preschool life, she got her Alphabet Crown. After a year and a half of preschool Luppin finally has mastered the task of identifying all the letters in the alphabet and repeating the sounds they make. BYUFan and I told her(as we did for all of [...]

BYUFan has been on my case ever since the end of last week when I picked half a bucket full of green beans to get them canned. I don’t have a pressure canner and on Saturday I went to a couple of stores to try and find one, but no luck. Finally on [...]

We’ve had a pretty decent garden this year given the fact that we planted beans and corn so late. I’ve definitely had my fill of corn on the cob and Nancy was giving fresh corn away to the neighbors. Yesterday she went out and picked a bucket full of beans from one of [...]