Dollar Store Water Bottles This was several years ago. The green jeep has long since quit working, the bottles from The Dollar Store are long gone and these two 14-year-olds of today still enjoy each other’s company but like to do very different things. I love this photograph because of …
Hey, kids: You are the kids who know about “unusual things before breakfast” but I, too, have looked for such things all of my life. Most of the time things that appear on the surface to be ordinary, are in fact not. Here are a few more examples of not-so-ordinary …
Dear Grandchildren: I have embarked on a journey through all of the photographs I have taken of you over many, many years. I am determined to give each of you the photo stories that touch my heart every time I see them. Even without a word of explanation, the photos …
We were in the middle of a rather long winter drive. We were doing what we love to do. Exploring. Our timing, through no fault of our own, was perfect. Tom said “look” and I looked. Preparing to turn out of the church onto the main road was a beautiful, …
Family Gathering 2019 (Maya, Quincy and Tucker.) Grandpa built our sandbox sixteen years ago. He has refreshed it with new sand now and then but the same shade cloth is overhead and a nice big bamboo blind slides down easily to block the afternoon sun. There are plenty of buckets …
Wonderful things can happen right in the middle of a annual Family Gathering. We love you little Millie. (number seventeen)
Family Gathering 2019 July has two holidays in Utah. One is the 4th and the other is the 24th. That is the day when the pioneers came into the valley. That means more fireworks. Just a quick look at the end of a busy day.
Family Gathering 2019 * I have learned that the day to play with shaving cream is the day that we rent the waterslide. I know that every grandmother who might be reading this post is swearing that I am an idiot to ever think of arming a bunch of kids …
Family Gathering 2019 History of Family Gathering Dress-Ups For the past five years, we have dressed-up. The girls love to assume different personas and the boys like to have swords and hatchets and the horned helmets of Vikings. The boys always end up staging pretend fights, especially with animals if …
It is possible to make your home so cozy that you can hardly leave it. I have come very close to staying in all day, in comfortable chairs, with projects spread out on second-hand tables, drinking hot chocolate from odd mugs and covering up with intricate, hand-made afghans that you …
