9 years ago this morning I was sitting in the Seattle temple waiting for Dave to show up so we could get hitched. It was such a beautiful d...

Aria: Gabe, what's your favorite vegetable? Gabe: mmmm....COOKIES!

So, I knew he knew his letters and sounds and I knew he knew how to spell some things (his favorite game is "Mom, how do you spell ____...

I had this idea to try to use shoes and create each letter of the alphabet. It was an amusing way to kill 3 hours. My sister has enough sho...

I'm still here. In case you were wondering. :) I painted my kitchen. Wanna see? It's been 3 shades of yellow for a very long time....

Me: How can we exercise faith? Aria: Shake our head back and forth really fast. (exercise face....) Me: If you steal something from the sto...

Aria: Mo-om, when is it my turn to play the Wii? (Nathan is on it) Me: I don't know. Aria: (in a worried tone) But you're the Mom...

Regarding National Bankruptcy Day. http://www.kval.com/news/37241774.html and... http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml09/09086.html Basi...

I follow the Shutter Sisters blog and they're always posting these little photo challenges that we respond to by linking to an image we...

Christmas break and all the snow days are all done! Yippee! I have one child shuttled off to school (amidst all sorts of whining) and anot...

A law was passed requiring extensive, retroactive lead and phthalate testing on all products, including clothing, that are sold for children...

There is one thing I like about the snow. When the sun hits it, it sparkles. These were both taken from inside my house looking out the fro...

Jovie's 1 year old shoot. Jovie's birthday party pictures. I didn't edit these, but there are a lot and I figured April would ...

Check this out... These pictures were taken with my point and shoot, inside the chapel, before church started on the day Jovie was blessed. ...

I took this picture on one of the first couple days of snow because it reminded me of one of my favorite childrens story books. Can you gue...

My Grandparents have a family get together every year around Christmas. This year we did our annual bowling, then went to the church for ga...

We were planning on going to Seattle for Christmas this year to visit Dave's family, so we didn't get a tree. We did, however, wrap...

Clara is almost 8 months and toothless. But it allows her to make the cutest little faces. When did your kids cut their first tooth and wha...

My beautiful niece turned 1 and I took pictures. :) Here are just a couple to tide y'all over. and...check this out...I made her birth...

I wanted a picture of Clara in this dress and the santa hat...but she didn't like the hat. She'd rip it off instantly. So I held her...