This post apparently is too long to handle for Internet Explorer.  It does however post completely in Firefox and Google Chrome.  I tried to post just the second half and apparently IE still doesn’t like something- so you’ll have to switch to firefox or chrome for the complete story.
I’m going to apologize in advance for […]

So I’m way behind in blog posts and am determined to catch up.  So I bring you ‘the other stuff’ that happened this summer.
We went to the school carnival and go our faces painted. The lady who did my girl’s faces lives in my ward and is available for parties- she is AMAZING.

We went […]

I’m going to apologize in advance- this is the mother of all posts- SUPER long and it’s not only wordy it’s picture heavy.  If you’re really not that interested here is the short version- we went camping in August to Crater Lake and Redwood National Forest.  We saw a pretty lake and big trees and […]

Han Fei (said h-awn faye) came today.
See?  Proof-

She is from Dalian, China which is a coastal city close to Bejing (relatively speaking).
I gave her a tour of the house and she was fascinated by the concept of food storage (some of you may be also).  She has been teaching English for 13 years to junior […]

A month ago my front yard looked like this:

But I was encouraged by this:

Two Weeks ago I started wearing footwear like this…

My street was deserted:

I tried to use my Christmas present but it was too cold.

 
 
 
This week we did this for lunch:

And my street has once again been filled with bikes, ripsticks, hockey/soccer goals, kids, […]