Hi! I just wanted to let any interested parties know that the real party has moved to my other blog: knowmoreastranger.blogspot.com. It's less angsty than this blog and also I have a husband who writes on it too! So update your blog rolls if you feel like it!!
This year, our traditional Labor Day baseball trip took us to the blazing
hot state of Texas. We chose to get TX out of the way because Labor Day was
a wee...
Today, I set Minnie on a blanket while I tied the September
ribbons on my new swing. Then together we swung while the ribbons
fluttered in the wind, and...
Dear Latter-day Saints, The latest online correction to the Come Follow Me
manual has me thinking deeply about how we, as Christian people, wrestle
with sc...
Meet Angie. She’s married to her husband Neal and a mom to three kids - Her
angel son Jayden, her angel daughter Maci, and her son Grayson, who was
adopted...
Another Baby Larson here, another journal completed.
Lydia and Adeline's pregnancy journals can be found here and here. Now my
plan is to get all these p...
Ringing in the new year and making me some bibimbap for my birthday dinner!
I turned the big 3-1! Oreo balls for dessert instead of a cake:
Lauren tried...
I cannot tell you how happy I am to no longer have a baby in the NICU.
When Nathan was born, he had great APGARs.
When they took him to weigh and measure h...
A Memoir in Dying Alone
*Nice man is joking about his tendency to date women with the same name*
Me: "Oh I've done that, I dated a couple of Dans once."...
I remember when January 2 came, I thought, "Huh. It's been a month since my
D&C. I survived the first month. I guess it gets easier now."
HA!
On the contr...
This is the year that this family is trying their hardest to do it all
over. My whole life feels like a do over, sometimes. I never finished
school. I am c...
Today I'm going to talk about suicide. It's a difficult topic for me. I
hope I can add my voice to the conversation about what works and what
doesn't work ...
Dexter is a ham. He loves to flirt. He loves girls. He loves attention.
He likes his quiet time too. He doesn't play with people as much as he
plays n...
There have been so many good times in 2016 so far. I love watching my kids
grow up and I feel like there are so many flecks of gold within each and
every ...
Celebrating 5 Months with this ball of fun! She loves her toes, her
cousins Grammy and Papa, she started sitting, has gone on not one but two
road trips...
In life we carry baggage. We move things around from place to place like
our lives are those things. I feel like we get lost in the things we own. I
still ...
My sweet Chloe turned four years old! On Christmas night I scrounged
through Nana's kitchen cupboards to find ingredients to make a cake. She
had a lemo...
Darling Soji,
It's about 2 AM on November 21, 2015 and I have all this restless energy
and racing thoughts, so I figured I might as well begin your birthda...
On Saturday I am participating in the Out of the Darkness Walk in my area.
It is hosted by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. If you
would lik...
Foot crack, door snap, I move like the space they need
Why does the lock make such noise while they sleep?
Handicaped child leading the devil's children
In a...
I realized when emailing with a friend this week that this blog has not
been updated in over 5 months. I'll make is short and sweet. We had a great
Christm...
At my 35 week appointment we scheduled me to be induced on March 31st. I
wanted it to be a couple days later but my doctor was going to be out of
town and...
A while ago I read a post about 100 tips and tricks for baking. It wasn't
too bad. I learned something cool: if you're going to put something in the
oven a...
Oh, friendlies, what an adventure the past year of my life has been!!! So
much has changed, particularly in the past six months, and my life is
moving at...
I love the new year! Especially this one. With all that we had going on
over the last few months, this was like a huge breath of fresh air.
Primary, espec...
We very blatantly stole the form for this post from Cait's sister. Thanks,
Aunt Lala.
Name: Tallulah
Age: 2, almost 3
Favorite book: Fancy Nancy, Mouse S...
I woke up around midnight after falling asleep sitting up to counter
heartburn, to a stabbing, shock in my back. My pregnant body had crushed my
lower bac...
We had a fun week visiting Nathan's family in San Diego. Here's just a
sampling of what we were up to:
Making Fruit Loop Necklaces
Feeding Ducks
Playi...
Everyone is wrong. Everyone is right. At some time in our life, we are
compelled to abandon the wisdom of our predecessors and create our own
wisdom. Somet...
My adorable little girl is one year old! Here's a little about what she's
up to lately:
She is quite the little explorer. She's mastered the art of crawl...
I've done fairly well keeping up with a bit of sewing each day, and I've
even managed to get outside with my kids *and* make dinner. Let's not talk
about t...
Yes the Japanese members believe (for the most part) believe that caffeine
is strictly against the word of wisdom and we found that out at eikaiwa
this we...
Yeah, this is only my second blog post of the year. I’m still considering
it a success.
The pain and fatigue had a small victory this weekend. I missed wo...
It’s always the slowest days that are the hardest. All the other interns
traveled to the Volta Region this weekend, and I stayed behind to do
laundry and w...
Look who came to visit us! This is our 3rd snake for this summer, and I'm
really sick of it. The first snake my kids found --the 2nd and 3rd I found
by st...
NORWAY
The idea of a Scandinavian Vacagabond came by a few sources of inspiration:
1. MY ANCESTORS migrated from Norway + Sweden, allowing to always...
9 September 2013
Letter #4
Hi, Everyone!
It has been a really incredible week again here in North Carolina!
I think that last time I wrote, I was on m...
We went and had her 1 Year pictures taken in April but as you can see I'm
really delayed in getting them posted. I was shocked at how well she did
for the...
Due to an innocent query by a local mama asking about different
buckle-style carriers, I wrote up all the observations I had about them,
and realized it wa...
I worry sometimes that I will never be what I really dream. Like, what I
deeply dream for my psychological, core being. I have my career and family
aspirat...
GUYS! Thought of you today. It's seriously INSANE to think I blogged my
first blog FIVE years ago! HOW HAS IT BEEN THAT LONG??? Love that it's long
enough ...
Hey everybody! I'm having a good day, are you having a good day? Good.
Cause I'm here to ruin another completely benign children's show for you.
I'm actual...
[excerpt from a journal entry 4/11/13]
Moving.
From the moment we enter this life, one of the sure signs we are alive is
that we are moving. We are br...
So I wanted to boast about how amazing my wife is and give her some much
deserved credit. She is an incredible woman. Caroline works full time as an
assist...
Recently, I had the opportunity to host a baby shower for a dear sweet
friend of mine, Michelle. I decided on a "She's Ready to Pop!" theme in
aqua and re...
Remember that time back in 2011 that we went to Costa Rica? And I posted
about the first half of the trip, but never got around to posting about the
second...
Friday we got hit by the biggest snow storm Salt Lake has seen in a while.
We still had a good ground cover from the last storm and then got around
two fee...
So for some reason i get tons of views on this blog... most of which are
from complete strangers! That doesn't bother me none, in fact, i love it!
So this...
to end my adventures here.
See....this blog has finished it's purpose. (at least, in my eyes it
has....) I started this blog as a way to document my adven...
you are such a neat gal! we were a little hesitant/worried/sick/petrified
when we found out we were going to be a family of four, but then you came
and i...
Coen will be 8 months old in TWO DAYS! And we've had lots of fun stuff
happen lately. To solve the space issue, I've decided just to add "2" and
"3" etc. t...
*Scarlet's birth. Finally! This is only possible because an amazing
friend of mine took the time to interview me about the birth, and type up
my words b...
I had so much fun planning Eliza's first birthday party. It all came
together when Eliza received a Paris romper as a baby gift and since we
announced ou...
Our 2nd day in Cape Town was spent on a tour that took us from Cape Town to
the Cape of Good Hope. It was a chilly blustery day for the most part, but
w...
This ended up being a free ramble... it started out trying to sort out my
definition of numb, but ended up being a regurgitation of my feelings
about... f...
What's up world? I'm not going to lie, I completely forgot about my blog
for a whole month. I feel like I stay so busy that something is bound to
fal...
we've been lucky enough to go on some fabulous trips lately.
we went to Boise to visit after my sister got knee surgery. graham was
devastated when we le...
So, I think I've been on Sabbatical from blogging. I often think of posts
to write I just never make it on to the computer to write and publish a
post. Yet...
Here are some recent pictures of the boys.
Lewis is already 5 months old and rolling around. We just started feeding
him rice cereal and he loves it....
I can't believe Oliver is already 4 months old. You would never know he had
such a rough start by looking at him. We are pretty spoiled to have such an
eas...
John-Mark planned a fabulous date for us last night...we had signed up to
clean the ward building, so we went over to the Institute after school and
cleane...
I went to the auditions for 'A Christmas Carol' with really no hope of
getting in. I had auditioned 3 or 4 times before for the same role and
never receive...
This year has gone by quite fast.
I don't know if it happens as you get older.
There are definitely times when I wanted it to go by faster...
and even for ...
This is a continuation of a previous blog that I posted called Fine! Have
it your way! Why can't I just have a burger or a fast food meal the way I
want ...
That's a pretty pretentious title for this post. It won't live up to it.
Amy and I broke up almost 6 months to the day after we started officially
dating. ...
The past few weeks there have been several songs that I keep finding myself
listening to over and over and a few of them just keep making me cry. I
just wa...
This is my beautiful little niece Presley that was born on the 8th of June.
These photos were taken by my friend Randy Major. You can follow him on
faceboo...
Sweet little Baby J has finally arrived!!! As you can imagine everyone
in the family is thrilled to have the little peanut here. (especially his
favorite ...
As I've been rummaging through some of my old essays, I have come across a
few that I had forgotten. This is one of those. I tend to get long-winded
someti...
On Sunday, May 1st our little Gabriel was blessed. Rob did a great job,
blessing him to be able to feel the Spirit, to some day marry in the
temple, and to...
1. I love how she smiles all the time for me. She tries to be serious at
times, but I never let her go with that face. I never quit until she smiles
and no...
We celebrated Christmas in Chicago with Kim and her family. It was lots of
fun being together. They had enough snow that we were able to do some
sledding....
I made Husband take pictures with me, because even though we don't really
like this job, I'm pretty sure we'll want to remember every detail of our
little ...
Cherry Days Parade. My kids are so cute.
We were at my mom's Sunday for a BBQ. Some of the cousins decided to
wrestle. Top- Kolton
Middle- Chett Bottom- C...
So Whit and I just got back from Kauai and it was SO BEAUTIFUL!! We went
with his family and we had so much fun! We went hiking along the Na Pali
Coast up ...
Words, I recently learned the Power of words. Joseph Smith talks about how
the word and faith are connected. Worlds were formed, mountains were moved,
and ...
Yes you heard me. There will be no sugarcoating, just flat out facts: The
Superbowl is the greatest day of the year.
I really don't remember where this ...
It's official. My husband and I are one. This is a big step. Bigger than
the temple sealing. We have a joint blog.
No worries. We will never get a joint fa...