Adventures
Our Great American Road Trip –Part II
16 Oct 2017
Days 4-7 Day 4 – A Day in San Francisco. When originally conceptualizing this road trip, in my mind we spent two days in San Fran. But one day proved [...]
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Our Great American Road Trip – Part 1
10 Sep 2017
For our family vaycay this year we decided to take a road trip to the Redwood Forest. What a blast! I spent months on google maps calculating distances and routes in [...]
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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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Draper Dayyyyys
16 Jul 2017
One thing we were super excited for this year was Draper Days. It’s the town celebration, and it’s held in the park right next to my house! This meant we [...]
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4th of July
5 Jul 2017
We spent the 4th of July weekend at the Cabin! Wynn and Heidi came up and played (YAY!). We had a yummy barbecue. We played at the lake. Wynn and Everett got a [...]
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The Start of Summer
25 Jun 2017
One big problem that I haven't figured out the solution to yet is busyness.
How do I not run every day from one activity to the other while still providing [...]
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A Very Sad Day
18 Jun 2017
Our sweet puppy, Maverick, got very sick. We figured he ate something (he was always eating socks and other things on the floor) and was having trouble passing it. [...]
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The End of An Era
16 Jun 2017
We limped most painfully along to the end of the school year. On the Sunday before Memorial day ( two weeks before the official dismissal of school) I told the kids [...]
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Summer Chores
5 Jun 2017
Here’s a sampling of the chore charts I’ve made for the summer, as well as “Cleaning Cards” that will get framed and put in each room so the [...]
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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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Spring Sports
21 May 2017
This spring we had Olivia playing softball in the Sandy/Draper league – Calvin playing baseball in Little League- Everett and Andrew in Draper fishing club [...]
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Mt. Rushmore
21 May 2017
A couple years ago (when Calvin was in the thick of his “Presidents” stage) Cal asked if we could go to Mt. Rushmore. We both kinda brushed it off until [...]
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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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Photos of the Past Few Months
21 May 2017
There’s been so much chaos these past several months. A few bigger things will receive their own posts. But these are pictures of more day-to-day life these [...]
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Everett’s Baptism Preview
21 May 2017
This year Everett will be baptized. In the old neighborhood every child had their own baptism (part of having very few children and two fonts in the stake). Here we [...]
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New Beginnings
21 May 2017
With the new year came New Beginnings. But the mind boggling thing was that this year Olivia was invited to it! I cannot tell you how shocking it is to me that my [...]
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