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...

Jeremiah and I worked out in the yard on Saturday cutting up sod and getting the garden ready. Alex and Hannah got tired of playing outside so they went inside and decided to play “barber”. Alex didn’t want his haircut but Hannah did. She said that she wanted her hair to look like her Aunt Chelsea’s. So Hannah came outside modeling her new hairdo. She was quite excited that Alex had cut her hair. Jeremiah was not...

I was talking with a friend at church the other day and he likened the Christmas season to a car accident.  Despite how much preparation goes into getting ready for everything, it still manages to sneak up and leave everyone wondering what it was that just hit.  Given how the past month has gone, I felt that this was a very appropriate analogy.  Now that things have started to settle down, I decided that I finally better sit down and try...

Some of you may have noticed some changes to our gallery page.  I’ve recently started using the NextGEN Gallery plugin for WordPress.  I like it much better than Coppermine which is what I was using before. When combined with the WP lightbox 2 plugin, it makes a very nice gallery. At Holly’s request, I’ve also re-enabled the password protection on the page.  It’s not 100% secure since I currently have a random...

Last night Chelsea came over for a few hours.  She took the kids to a Halloween party and then we hung out and watched Heroes while she was fooling around on her laptop. Shortly before she went home, her computer was sitting closed on the floor.  She stood up to go to the bathroom and her cell phone flew off of her lap, bouncing off the top of the laptop.  I made a comment about how it’s not a good idea to go throwing things at a...