Author: Nancy

The kids are off track for another week so I decided to do something fun this week so they don’t get too bored with me at home. We packed up a picnic lunch and headed downtown to temple square. The kids love to see all the brides getting their picture taken and they love to… Continue reading End of Summer Play Day

It was momentous when my last child was finally potty trained and I could finally say goodbye forever to diapers. It is even more momentous when she finally gets to go to preschool just like her older siblings did. On the first day of class I decided to walk her in so I could get… Continue reading Diana’s first day of preschool

BYUFan and I have started walking every morning so we can start getting into shape. On our way home today we walked past this sign which made me chuckle. I wondered why anyone would need a sign when they had their eyes to see the obvious. Then I realized that this sign was there because… Continue reading Where the sidewalk ends

At the beginning of last week BYUFan told Samuel that he would give him a haircut. Those of you who know BYUFan, you know that he didn’t do it right away because of his busy schedule. Day after day Samuel asked him if he would do it. Finally on Friday night BYUFan got the clippers… Continue reading Buddy’s haircut

Mondays are busy working days for me since I don’t do much housework on the weekends. Today while I was at the grocery store a funny thing hapened when I was in the produce department. While I was busy picking out some nice peaches, Samuel decided he would like to try a delicious looking pepper.… Continue reading Grocery shopping and car troubles

In sacrament meeting today we thought we lucked out when the speakers ended about ten minutes early and one of the bishopric members went straight to the closing song without having someone bear a testimony or something. What we didn’t know was that we had the slowest chorester and organist in the whole church in… Continue reading Sleeping in Sacrament Meeting

I can’t believe it is time for school to start again. It will be Emily’s last year in elementary school and Samuel’s first. Samuel actually starts a week after the rest of the kids because for the first week the kindergarteners have one on one meetings with the teacher. I took the girls last week… Continue reading The Beginning of another school year

My brother and his family is visiting this week from Oregon. He had to drop his two oldest daughters off to EFY down at BYU on Monday and then the rest of the week he had planned to do fun things and invite us along. The problem was that his wife Jaime got sick with… Continue reading Going to the zoo