Last year, shortly before Christmas, our family was blessed with a wonderful baby boy.  That boy is still small but not exactly a baby anymore as you can see from the picture.  We didn’t really do anything exciting other than eat cake, but that seemed to be exciting enough for Lincoln. If you have interest in seeing more pics of Lincoln eating cake or opening his gifts, check out our gallery.  The page is password...

Even as neglected as my blog has been over the past few months, I couldn’t let today pass without wishing our country a happy 234th birthday.  It was on this day in 1776 that the Declaration of Independence was adopted announcing a severing of ties between England and the colonies in the New World. To Thomas Jefferson, the inspired patriot who drafted this amazing document, I say thank you.  I also say thank you to the other...

I know I’m late in posting this but a few weeks ago Hannah turned four years old.  For her birthday we went to Winger’s for lunch and then went and saw Pixar’s Up.  (Up was an amazing movie that I would recommend to anybody.)  As soon as we walked into Winger’s, Hannah told the hostess that it was her birthday.  This worked to her advantage since she got a free asphalt pie after the meal.  As you can see, she...

Emma just turned nine years old.  Because her birthday fell on Monday, she ended up getting a weekend-long celebration. On Saturday, since I was going to go to the LDS General Conference Priesthood Session with Nick, we had him and Chelsea come over for dinner and cake and ice cream.  We also decided to open presents that night.  Emma got a lot of Littlest Pet Shop toys as well as High School Musical 3 on DVD.   I think that she was...

Today is Holly’s *mumble mumble* birthday.  Everyone be sure to call her to wish her a happy day.