We went up to the University of Washington last night to see Lois McMaster Bujold, one of our favorite authors. This was the second "r...

I donated my hair! I've been thinking about doing this for a while--the last time I got my hair trimmed was right after Kate was born, ...

Kate is officially two and a half today! A quarter of a decade. Wow. I took this picture this morning. She looks so serious and grown up...

We've been watching some of the music videos on noggin.com with Kate. There's one called "Pig on Her Head" that has a ca...

The latest project!

We've been saying, for a long time, that we should take Kate swimming. She loves playing in the bath and will stay in there for an hour...

"Toast!" "Can you say please?" "Toast!" "Say 'Toast please!'" "Okay!" "You sa...

I hope all the daddies out there had a great Father's Day! At church they gave out candy bars. (For Mother's Day we got potted phl...

Doug's parents left yesterday. They were here for almost a week. We got to spend some fun time together, and I particularly enjoyed ha...

A couple of weeks ago we went down to Lakewood for a Korean dinner with our friends Don and Jill Tracy, who had never had Korean food befo...

A couple of years ago, when my family was visiting for the occasion of Kate's birth, I sent my dad out for salad makings and we got into...

I was just commenting on my sister-in-law Karen's poetry blog , and said that "Tim'rous Beastie" would be a great screen n...

Our friend Rebecca has this cute little dog named Glorie Jean that she just loves. I've taken a lot of pictures of Glorie Jean over the...

We have unraveled the principles of Kate's pronunciation. To start with, G's and K's turn into D's and T's. That part ...

I made a Poor Man's Cake this afternoon. It's kind of a family staple (from my family, when I was growing up) but it's been a l...

Once upon a time, lo these many years ago, I was at BYU--this would have been the 93-94 school year, I think. My roommate Christy , who was...

The quest for the Mother's Day photo continues.

What a beautiful spring we are having! It's been so nice out lately. We celebrated Children's Day on May 5th with our traditional ...