When Emily realized we wouldn’t be able to do trick or treating this year she came up with the idea to turn our house into a neighborhood. We all thought it was a brilliant idea. Andrew helped the kids make signs around the house. Nathan drew the house numbers and the kids helped to hang…
Experiences
Easter Week 2019
Easter is quickly becoming one of my favorite weeks of the year. This year we went on a our Palm Sunday walk in a park near our home and had a short testimony meeting there about Jesus Christ. We talked about the woman who anointed Jesus’s feet and served him and decided we would do…
Eli Whitney Museum
We spent a Saturday morning checking out the Eli Whitney Museum. Eli Whitney built a factory, bunk houses, and school and the site is still functioning as an place of creation and apprenticeship today. They have two large workshops that are used to build toys and kits for other kids to make creations of their…
Nature Walks and Outdoor Play
We are surrounded here in Connecticut by many lakes with beautiful trails. The kids and I have met my childhood friend Crystal a few times to do some exploring outdoors. Because of my dislocated shoulder we’ve been limited in our outside adventuring the last few months. I have been so grateful for her help in…
Pipe Burst
Yesterday morning around 9:30 am I was making a smoothie for snack time when we hurt a loud noise and water starting shooting out from under the sink. It was like having a spewing fire hydrant in our kitchen. The water was so forceful I couldn’t get to the shut off valve to make it…
Exploration Acres 2018
We have loved going to Exploration Acres every year since 2013 when Emily was two weeks old. We’ve gone with many different groups of friends and family since then. This year the kids and I went with a large group of friends from church (thanks Julie for the group pictures!) The first experience was riding…
General Conference Weekend 2018
Two weeks ago we started talking about General Conference for family home evening. We brainstormed questions that we had as a family. On Monday we finalized our three questions and taped them to the wall by the table. Every day the kids talked about the questions and how we were going to look for the…
The Most Wonderful Musical Gift and Our Fiddle Concert
When Phoebe called three and a half years ago and said they were coming to Purdue for grad school, the first thing that popped into my head was that we can fiddle again. She and I had been in an Irish Folk Dance class for a summer term in 2012 so we had something to…
First Week Home
Transitioning from our week in Utah has been a little rough. We’ve all agreed that one week was too short to be ready to go home. It takes us two weeks to feel that pull to return to normalcy. We’ve also had the hardest getting everyone back on EST. Being two hours behind the rest…
6 Tips for Hosting a Family Party
My interview with Leslie Johnson a few weeks ago really has my wheels turning about creating a home where the kids want to be as opposed to just wanting to go be with friends all the time. With our upcoming move and I that our day to day social life is going to change dramatically. I am trying to…