Our First Wrestling Match – & I Turn 40
24 Nov 2019
Our very first wrestling match happened to fall on my birthday. “Are we going to the match?” Everett asked. Of course, we were planning on it. “But [...]
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Five Things
19 May 2019
Five Things About This Week – May 19-25 2019 Carpet Garden Paint Appliances The Weekend Five Things About The Heat – April 2009 I love it It makes it [...]
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A&W 16 Years
11 Nov 2017
For our anniversary this year Wyatt went all out and took me to San Diego for the U2 Joshua Tree concert. I was super excited to go! While we were there we also did [...]
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Tennis Ladies
11 Nov 2017
A bunch of ladies in my ward get together every Tuesday night for Tennis lessons. The coach from the highschool comes and teaches us how to play. Mostly we just [...]
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Hiking
9 Nov 2017
Over the summer I was talking to Brynn and she told me about her goal to do 52 hikes in 52 weeks. I thought that sounded so lovely, I started the same thing. [...]
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Andrea Goes to Scout Camp
10 Sep 2017
This year I was asked by one of the leaders if I would mind going to Scout camp for one of the days (3 day event) to help out. I did, and man-o-man, it was a blast! [...]
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Unto Us A Dream
4 Jun 2017
On the 15th of May I received a text message from my mom: Uncle Bob had a stroke the evening before. Things looked good though. They were able to get him to the [...]
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Women’s General Meeting
21 May 2017
This year for the Women’s General Meeting I decided to take Olivia downtown to the conference center. We went to dinner first at Mimi’s and then went [...]
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Some Other Beginning’s End
13 Oct 2016
We’re closing a chapter on our lives – and I’m not ignorant of the fact that it may have been the most beautiful chapter of our entire lives. [...]
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I Think I Think Too Much
7 Sep 2016
ON Minimalism We decided we’d put our house on the market as soon as we got home from Hawaii, around May 15th. In anticipation of that I packed the basement up [...]
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Captain Chris’ Swashbuckling 70th
26 Aug 2016
The day after school started I got up bright and early (4:30 am) to catch a flight to Denver, where Andi was throwing her dad a surprise 70th Birthday party. The [...]
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The First Day of School
24 Aug 2016
On Wednesday, August 25th, we finally had to accept reality and . . . go back to school. Of course, I think the kids were thrilled. They were awake and fully ready [...]
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Momento’s – Organizing the kids school stuff
15 Jun 2016
I’m not really a “stuff” person. I have one box of letters and postcards from my childhood . . . and that’s it. No trophies, no pictures (my [...]
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Summer by the Spirit
3 Jun 2016
Summer is here. By all accounts, that means “I’m Busy.” I usually start calendaring the summer over Christmas break, and this year was no [...]
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