I like to try to get a picture with the kids on my birthday. This doesn't always work so well, but these turned out pretty cute. ...

They're heart-shaped!

Doug is another year older!  We celebrated with dinner at Chevy's. Andy's chip-dipping action.  (I have been somewhat less imp...

Kate drew this at church.  The thumb is Pikachu. She wore her new pink dress, and I was planning on getting a picture, but we were both ...

I've been working on this pink dress for Kate. It's almost done now, but I did have some trouble getting started. We have thi...

Our fridge is now sporting this stylish new buckle. Andy keeps getting into the fridge for juice. We never had this problem with Kate.

Kate made this cute little guy at school. I remember Mr. Seewer, my high school World Lit teacher, saying that he would like to receive G...

... and I don't expect to be coming out for a while. The show does have its flaws (there are certain aspects of the premise that I...

I made this card to send to some friends in Korea. (Hopefully they won't mind getting it a little late!) I wanted to get some  dduk...

Our snow turned into more snow and then freezing rain. Kate was off school Monday and Tuesday for Martin Luther King Jr. Day and then a wa...

We finally got our snow! Kate has been having fun playing in it. (She went out for a little bit before church on Sunday, and then we were ...

For our Relief Society book club this month we're reading The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale. Last night I was less than a third of the wa...

Lunch at Honey Pig in Lakewood!  (It came up as one of the local deals on Amazon, and Doug spotted it and bought it.) We've been to ...

I love displays of color. Stacks of cardstock, cubbyholes of yarn, little drawers filled with rainbows of embroidery floss.... I remembe...

Our little hyperlexic boy loves watching alphabet videos on youtube. He has quite a collection of alphabet songs in English now (ending i...

I have picked out a "one little word" for 2012.  My word is FOCUS.  I know I let myself get too distracted by the internet and it ...

I just had to share this, while it's still the season.  It's just awesome.  (Kate and I both enjoy the song.   Especially the nin...

Yes it's true--we now have a seven-year-old and a three-year-old! I thought about getting balloons like I did two years ago , and t...