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Posted in Family on Sep 19th, 2010
We got to go to the Giants game on Friday! I entered all the kids’ names in a drawing at our public library a few weeks ago, and Heidi’s entry won! I’d already forgotten about even entering when Colin called me as I drove back from dropping Degen off at school and said that the [...]
Isn’t giving everyone the day off of work a funny way to celebrate the amazing work ethic of the average American? And I swear that when I was a kid I was confused by the name of the holiday and wasn’t totally sure we weren’t celebrating a second Mother’s Day. Degen asked me yesterday when [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 17th, 2009
Last night we went to San Francisco for our date. We actually went a-touristing with my sister Ruthie and friend Hillary. Yay for visitors! We actually started with dinner at Ping’s Chinese Restaurant in San Rafael, which is consistently lovely and affordable at the same time. If you ever get to go, order mu shu [...]
Posted in Holidays on Jun 21st, 2009
Posted in Family on Jun 20th, 2009
Degen and Maggie are dressed and fed, Heidi is dressed and fed and napping, Colin is at an Elder’s Quorum service project (dressed, hopefully fed, and surely not napping). The kids are baking me a “cake” in their pretend kitchen while I’m being a nerd in my pjs and watching an old John Bytheway Education [...]
Posted in Family Home Evening on Jul 14th, 2008
Today we’re doing a Love At Home lesson. I chose this one because Colin reminded me that today is the anniversary of our first date. Cute, huh? So, here’s the plan for the lesson (mostly from the FHE Resource Manual lesson on the subject). Tell the children that you are going to pretend that a [...]
Posted in Family Home Evening on Jul 7th, 2008
Colin did our FHE lesson tonight–he put up a slide show of pictures of our family on the TV for us to watch. Maggie excitedly screamed out the names of everyone she recognized in the pictures, including herself. There were some pictures of the Savior mixed in, and every time Maggie sees a picture of [...]
Image by hint of plum via Flickr To all of you moms out there, happy Mother’s Day! My mother is definitely one of the best mothers ever, and I dare anyone to try to top her efforts or results. Really, try it, you’ll be happier for it. My mom is a great teacher and [...]
Posted in Holidays on Apr 30th, 2008
Image via Wikipedia Maggie and I are going to Washington, DC! My sister is graduating from college there and had an airline voucher she wasn’t using and used it to buy me a ticket to the family party in DC. I’m so excited! My whole family, except the brothers-in-law and Degen will be there as [...]
Posted in Primary on Apr 29th, 2008
Primary’s May Theme is… Heavenly Father planned for me to come to a family. I can strengthen my family now. “The family is central to the Creator’s plan for the eternal destiny of His children” (“Proclamation,” paragraph 1). …and I’m in charge of Sharing Time next week. Next week’s lesson in the Outline goes like [...]