While we were on vacation in Maui, our neighbor sent us a text that Jake’s mission call had arrived in the mail. We toyed with the idea of having the long-awaited envelope FedEx’ed overnight to us in Maui, but Jake decided to wait an open it the night we came home. So, on Thursday, April …
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Claire turns twelve
Just like last year, Claire and Manina stopped and picked me up so we could go to Cubby’s for Claire’s birthday lunch. In what is quickly becoming one of my favorite traditions, I interviewed Claire to get a little glimpse into her life. It was fun to see how she’s changed since her birthday last …
Mighty March Madness
We tried out a different version of our family March Madness pool this year. Since the traditional fill-out-a-bracket method is , we thought we should shake it up and try a new method to track the craziness. This year we tried the Bill James Bracketless Bracket method. Rules: Everyone picks their favorite #1 seed, then …
Pine Hollow 2018
The kids were out of school today, so we decided to head up into the mountains and do one of our favorite winter hikes – Pine Hollow. This year we had everyone except Jacob (he was working) and we brought along cousin Kate Rowberry. We did Pine Hollow last year with the little kids, and I …
Super Surprising Valentine
Valentine’s Day around our house isn’t a super-romantic holiday, but Manina usually does fun things for our kids to let them know we love them. This year started with a yummy breakfast of homemade waffles, strawberries, and buttermilk syrup. And it wouldn’t only get better. That evening we had the sister missionaries over for heart-shaped …
Drew Turns Ten
Drew is a pretty easy-going kid. We had to celebrate his birthday a couple days early due to some big celebrations with his Grandpa Mike’s 70th birthday planned. But Drew didn’t mind at all. He’s all chill. We lucked into some Jazz tickets, so Drew and I went up to downtown Salt Lake City to …
Sharing Christmas 2017
The last few years my parents have gifted us cash and asked us to go do something good with it. They only ask that we write it up to share with them. Here is our report for 2017. Like a lot of other families these days, most of our Christmas shopping is done online and …
Manina’s 41st Birthday
Manina had quite the jam-packed day for her 41st birthday. It started out with her girlfriends Hannah Stayner, Penny Bergeron, and Emily Hunter taking her out for breakfast. When Manina came home, we had a quick birthday song and gave her a new bike: a 2016 Trek FX 7.2 WSD. I was pretty proud of …
Katelyn’s 14th Birthday
Our Katelyn is fourteen years old! Manina and I took Katelyn out for lunch at Chick-Fil-A and I took some time to interview her. Here is what I learned: What is your favorite class at school? Foods right now. Usually student council but I have to do announcements this month which is difficult. What is …
Family Uinta Hike
We’ve traditionally gone on a hike over Labor Day weekend. Last year we did the Lofty Lake loop and had a good time. This time we’d be bringing along our new dog, Finley. So, we didn’t feel like we could make it a very long trek. We decided to hike to Watson lake, which is …
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