Ok, I don’t normally like to be all Braggy McBraggypants about my kids and the wonderful things they do because quite frankly, its much more fun to tell you about their faults and fallacies and to make fun of the way they butcher the English language on a regular basis.  What is the point of [...]

We have a few back to school traditions, like forcing encouraging my kids to take photos with Blaine every year on the first day, and forcing encouraging them to answer the surveys I give them each year.  One of my favorite traditions, though, is our annual Night-Before-The-First-Day-of-School-Dinner at a local Japanese steakhouse. When we lived in [...]

Regarding our family photo shoot from earlier this week, I received the cd of images from Jim, our photographer this evening.  After carefully looking and checking all the images he took, I can honestly say ……. for the record, no-one on our Christmas card list will be receiving the traditional letter/photo combination this year.  Because [...]

I knew when I went to bed last night I would title today’s post this …. and why. The first time we tried to get our family photos done this year, lousy weather blew in just a few hours before.  The second time, the weather was perfect but we forgot about daylight savings time and [...]

Things learned by the members of our family during our Baptism Sunday: Learned by Brayden during baptism: The water in the baptismal is indeed warm, perhaps warmer than a bathtub, but getting out is stinking cold. And when wet, the baptismal robes weigh about fifty pounds apiece, so you just stand there shivering, too wet [...]