Letting go of the seat of the tiny bike and watching your little tike pedal along solo is one of those “parenting payback” milestones. Ellie might be slow when it comes to getting haircuts, but this last weekend she asked to go out and try her big-girl bike. After about 30 minutes of practice with …
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Ellie’s First Hair Cut
As I have mentioned before, my babies are born nearly hairless. And to make matter worse, especially for the girls, they don’t really grow hair until they are 3 or 4. Well, Ellie couldn’t be happier to have finally gotten enough hair to need a hair-cut. Here is Ellie at 4 1/2 years old and …
St. Paddy’s Day FHE
Our kids really got into St. Patrick’s day this year. Claire, Drew, and Ellie made leprechaun traps several days ahead of schedule trying to catch our family leprechauns, Sam and Billy. Unfortunately, they didn’t have any luck. For FHE, I had a bunch of ideas I stole from one of my favorite blogs cute family …
Preschool Sledding Fieldtrip
Ellie, Drew and I went up to Mutual Dell (up American Fork canyon) on Thursday for a preschool field trip. Ellie loves being in Miss Molly’s Bear Hollow preschool, and Drew got to tag along because his kindergarten class starts after lunch and he is a distinguished alumni. We had a lot of fun sledding …
Jacob’s Eagle Project
Jacob got his project approved a couple months ago, but due to the weather, holidays, and scheduling, he hasn’t been able to make a big push. That changed last weekend. The project was to lead a bike drive for Bicycle Collective, an organization that take the bikes, donates them to needy individuals, but also teaches classes …
Midway Winter Getaway
Tony and Emily Francis and their cute family are good friends, but we’ve never been able to take our families on a trip together. We’ve done stuff as couples (2012 Caribbean cruise, 2013 Vegas trip, etc.), but haven’t been brave enough to take the whole crew anywhere yet, until this last weekend. We pulled the …
Happy 6th Birthday Drew buddy!
Yep, another birthday has come and gone. Drew turned six this year. According to my kids, it was his “golden birthday” so it needed to be extra special. We woke him up singing happy birthday and delivering donuts to his room. We then took him to McDonald’s for lunch (his request). After school we took …
Merry Christmas to all!
Wow, did Christmas just spring upon us this year or what?! With Thanksgiving being a week later than usual, I found myself much less prepared. Of course, it didn’t take long to get me into the swing of things. Thankfully my little helpers (Meg and KK) helped out a ton this year with wrapping, cookie …
Let the Christmas Festivities Begin…
As with every year, we try to fit in as many fun Christmas activities, concerts, and traditions as we can. This year was a little different because of the extremely cold temperatures we were experiencing. Unfortunately we didn’t even make it to see the lights at temple square (an annual tradition). However, we still made …
Happy Birthday Manina!
Manina usually gets the short shrift on her birthday since it’s so near Christmas. She used to get fairly frustrated with me and my attitude toward birthdays. You see, I am the oldest of eight kids, we had birthdays all the time growing up and they weren’t a big deal. A couple presents and a …
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