**This cute girl in the middle is Paul’s cousin’s daughter, but I literally think of her as my niece. I love this girl! I actually have loved her since the moment I first met her! (Kayleigh is the baby on the left. Bekah is on the right. Both are being held by their great-grandmother Phyllis… Read More Meet Bekah!
** I came across this post last week. As I read it, I felt I needed to repost it. You just never know where life is going to take you. ** I CAN’T BELIEVE IT! Today was our LAST Sunday in Costa Rica. It has just flown by! My heart actually hurts from the thoughts… Read More #TBT “Repost” – August 20, 2012 – Saying Goodbye – Our LAST Sunday in Costa Rica
Joy Boy has been craving chocolate. So much so, he thought buying his friend a chocolate bar for his birthday was a great idea! I suggested that we make him a chocolate cake instead. Joy Boy JUMPED at the opportunity. He told me that he has wanted to do this for quite awhile, but his… Read More Chocolate Frosting Swirls
GingerSnap and I tried something new over the weekend. We were all out of Jello, but we have boxes and boxes of gelatin. We researched how to make our own version of Jello, but after it didn’t set up, we took a risk to fix it and it worked! The gelatin we made is firm,… Read More Homemade “Kool-aid Jello”
We had some special guests in our home tonight. Fran and Sarah! We sure do love these two ladies. We enjoyed a yummy, no carb or sugar dinner, and then we played a fun game of Scattergories. Curly Cook and Fran won by one point. GingerSnap and Sarah came in second, Joy Boy and I… Read More Family Activity Night
Boy that’s a mouthful! (Curly Cook playing with her Primary class after church.) Tonight I’m grateful for Fast Sunday Family Movie Night. Each Fast Sunday we fast dinner the night before, as well as breakfast on Fast Sunday, so that we can serve the missionaries lunch after church. So, to make fasting go a bit easier… Read More Fast Sunday Family Movie Night
I was scrolling through the photos on my phone, to take and look and see what I had failed to blog about this month, and found several pictures that I loved. So why not blog about them? A favorite photo of our handsome missionary! Sisters. GingerSnap gave Curly Cook some good advice one evening, about… Read More March in Pictures
Do you ever get a GREAT recipe but fail to write it down. 🤦🏻♀️ Well, that’s what happened to me and I had these bad boys rotting on my kitchen countertop. I love bananas, but this bunch ripened too quickly to get eaten and I am sick and tired of throwing them away but we… Read More Banana Muffins x 2
I’m on technology OVERLOAD! TOO MUCH TECHNOLOGY!!!! I have felt like I have been pushed by the wind all day long. Have you ever had days like this? You wake up and before you can make a game plan for the day, you get going in places you don’t know you should be?l in? … Read More #TBT – March 16, 2018 – Grateful for the Opportunity (#112)
Tonight was a bit different. We have no power. Paul had his Stake Presidency meetings, GingerSnap and Joy Boy got to play “Just Dance” on the Wii for YM/YW’s (their church youth group). So Curly Cook and I snuggled up on the couch to do our “Mom and Me” time, when the power went out!… Read More No Power
