We like to make a Thanksgiving tree every year. I love putting it up and leaving the tags out with some markers so the girls (and my husband and I) can write down things we are grateful for on a daily basis during the weeks leading up to Thanksgiving. I absolutely love seeing how the…
Last night we had the beginning of our Halloween celebrations for the year: Trick-or-treating downtown at Treat Street. I always say that I get crappy pictures from Treat Street, but this year took the cake. It was dark and ominous weather, and we got there a lot later than we usually do, so the light…
I love Halloween. And I love decorating for Halloween almost more than I love the holiday itself! I especially love to have a fun Halloween wreath on the front door, but I haven’t had a good one in a while. I have become so bored of my Halloween decorations this year. I even left a…
So, thanks to Pinterest, I found eleventy billion cute little valentine ideas. And I wanted to make all of them. Which, naturally, would require picking myself up by the bootstraps and leaving my January blahs behind. As it was, aside from a bit of shopping for the projects, I didn’t actually pick myself up by…
Summer’s here. At least, it is schedule-wise. The weather has yet to prove itself, but it has given us a few nice days, anyway! As for our summer schedule and activities, I decided to go a little easier on the kids this year. Which means no math workbooks–at least not daily. Or any others, for…
Around here, that’s what PMS stands for. Once a month, I am relentless about getting things done. And I slave-drive my poor family. They must be used to it, because if I raise my voice during normal days, the girls get their feelings so hurt that I never hear the end of it. But during…
I know, I know. Valentine’s Day is long gone, right? Well, it’s still February, and so I’m totally within my rights to post this. (So there.) It seems that round these parts, people like to make their Valentines. February always seems to be too crazy of a month for me to pull that off, so…
More than ten years ago, when I was 19 years old, I saw a flyer hanging in the HFAC (Harris Fine Arts Center…my home on BYU campus). It was announcing auditions for a “music mission” in Nauvoo…participants needed to be proficient in singing, acting and dancing. As a vocal performance major, I had the singing…