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This past mother’s day weekend Shane and the boys went out for a Father’s and sons camp out for church.  Rather than set up a tent Shane outfitted our enclosed trailer with our queen sized blow up mattress and a pile of sleeping bags and pillows before he left. Marie sadly waved goodbye to the More >

This is our fifth year going to the tulip festival.  We started this family tradition before Oliver was even born on Marie’s first birthday.  We ended up going later in the month than normal and we had a beautiful sunny day to enjoy the scenery.  The garden we go to was out in full splendor More >

Here is a questionnaire I put together for my upcoming lesson on “Prayer” found in the Gospel Principles manual.  Feel free to take a pop at it and tell me what you think. The Sisters have had a week to go over it ahead of time. 1)     Ponder upon one of your most effective prayers. More >

Marie’s much anticipated birthday came this week.  We have been hearing about it for months.  At last the big day came.  I spent the morning finishing off icing Marie’s white bunny with sprinkles in the cake as she requested, and fending Peter’s fingers from swiping icing.  My sister Mimi had sent me Wilbur chocolate buds More >

We had another wonderful Easter this year.  For the first time(and perhaps the last) we did some Easter treats and a little egg hunt the Monday night before Easter.  Tuesday proved my skepticism of all the pagan additions to such a special day to it’s fullest, but with that in the past we all looked More >

For those who may not have heard we are expecting a baby in late August.  The kids have all been very excited about a new baby and for a while the debate was rather emotional between the kids as to whether or not the baby was a boy or a girl.  I explained that Heavenly More >

This past weekend we had some beautiful weather.  Shane wanted to get me out of the house since currently I don’t go out much with the three kids.  I made some snacks and then we ran some errands ending up at Kyak point for our picnic.  The kids spent most of their time throwing rocks More >

We have a lot of birthdays in a row at our house.  The season starts off with Peter’s right at the beginning of spring.  Recently he has been into “Lightning McQueen”,  “Thomas the Train” and Elmo.  I bought his presents a few weeks ago, but he spied them in the car twice before they got More >

I realized how unprepared in some respects I was for this holiday when I saw Shane don a green shirt for work.  I asked him, “Isn’t there a clean work shirt?  I have just done the laundry.”  His reply, “I know, it’s St Patrick’s Day.”  So the search began to find green shirts for all More >

Thankfully this past month has not been filled with clouds and rain entirely and we have been able to get out for sunshine and exercise when there hasn’t been a sick child in the house (which was rare).
One day I noticed the wind was picking up so we headed outside to try out our new More >

In the Bible we read about how the people of Israel escaped from slavery in Egypt.  Their former rulers valued the Israelites lives so little that the Egyptian Pharaoh ordered the massacre of all the male children born.  When this tidy plan didn’t work it was decided to work the Israelites into the ground making More >