Just a few days after we brought Daisy, our little beagle puppy, home, Amberly had tears in her eyes. I asked her what was wrong and in her ...

Yesterday afternoon we went to the book sale at the Salt Lake City Library for Family Home Evening. You know I can't resist cheap books...

Last night while I was standing outside in the pouring rain waiting for the puppy to do "it's business", I wondered, yet again...

The phone rang this morning while we were getting ready for church. It was the Ward Executive Secretary. "Can you be at church early ...

Amberly turns seven years old today. She's so beautiful and smart and thoughtful. I just love this spunky little girl.

Earlier this week, Neal informed me that he would no longer wear collared shirts to school. I wanted to know what was wrong with all the pol...

I didn't write about our caucus meeting earlier because I was pretty worked up. In fact, between the caucus meeting, studying up on Rona...

I got hit by a nice little head cold to finish out our Spring Break week. My oldest two were "hanging" and skiing (because there w...

The new Flagship Deseret Book Store opened in downtown Salt Lake City last week. It's part of the Downtown Rising Project happening ju...

. . . watch General Conference . Oh my. It was so good. I'm going to listen to Elder Bednar's talk again, right now.

Utah Dad and I enjoy watching foreign films. For awhile we watched so many that we got used to having subtitles on during a movie that we no...

Each year the 3rd and 4th graders in our school district compete against each other in a Knowledge Bowl. The kids who want to participate, d...

I've been offline for a few (harried) days but then--miracle of miracle--today my computer finally connected to the Internet and has app...

I saw an ad for Disney on Ice in January and I set it aside. I knew Amberly would love it but I wasn't sure I could really justify the c...

Last Saturday evening, Utah Dad and I were privileged to attend Mitt Romney's No Apology: the Case for American Greatness book tour sp...

I love when the weather gets warm enough for the kids to go outside and play wearing only jackets instead of coats, gloves, boots, hats and ...

Neal learned to ski this winter and he loves it. In fact, last week he told me that he would rather ski for one afternoon than play the Wii ...

Last week when Utah Dad was in the mood for a dog (read about it * here *) he made me take a quiz on the Iams Dog Food website . After I ans...