Around Our House
Tommy was in Singapore last week. It was another last minute trip. It was probably the best business trip for me and the boys though! It was only 6 days (Singapore is soooo far away! He had to be gone...
View ArticleKirtland
We took a quick trip to visit Kirtland, Ohio this week. Tommy had Good Friday off, so we decided to take advantage of it. He took half a day of vacation on Thursday and we left after lunch. Because he...
View ArticleEaster
We had a great Easter! We enjoyed General Conference and had a very fun, relaxing weekend.Saturday night we dyed eggs. (excuse the undressed boy.) Bradley loved it! He has been asking for weeks to do...
View ArticleAugust
On Saturday we worked in the yard all day. Tommy and Bradley found a salamander. I was in the house feeding Caleb and Bradley came running in yelling that they found a giant worm. Tommy clarified. They...
View Article8 Months
I'm posting this late but Caleb is now 8 months old. Oh how we love this baby!!He is finally getting the hang of solid food and (mostly) enjoying it. He doesn't love things mixed with rice cereal and...
View ArticleDates
I haven't been keeping good track of our dates this year, so I'm just going to include them all in one post.For Christmas, my mom gave us an "art date night kit." We did it in January. It was super...
View ArticleCamping
The weather was GORGEOUS this weekend, so we went camping! I'm actually embarrassed to say (with both of us being recreation management majors and growing up loving to camp) that this was our first...
View ArticleFowl Play
We have had run-ins with aggressive birds twice in the last week. We had a picnic one night and this duck would not leave us alone! She kept coming up to us even when we would wave her away or stomp on...
View ArticlePiano
We bought a piano a few weeks ago!!!! We are loving it!A woman in our ward had a friend who was selling her's. It is 16 years old, has never been moved, and was only played by one child. We got it for...
View ArticleBabies
For the past month or so, Bradley has been playing "babies". It started with two bath toys, a giraffe and a duck. They were his "baby and kid" and he took them everywhere.Then he added in several...
View ArticleAround Our House - May
May was a fun, ordinary month. Tommy was home all month (minus 2 days in New York City) and worked from home several times a week. The boys and I attended our ward's playgroup at a park every week and...
View ArticleUtah trip part 1 - Utah Valley
Oh! We had a fantastic time in Utah! I'm really sad the trip is over. It had been 3 years since I had been there, which is the longest I have ever gone without visiting. It felt like home and it was so...
View ArticleUtah trip part 2 - Moab
Monday afternoon we drove down to Moab for my family's reunion. Only 3 of us 6 siblings (me, Julie, and Danny) were able to come this time, but both sets of grandparents were able to come. I'm really...
View ArticleAround Our House - June
We spent our first two weeks in Utah. The week we got back, Tommy got sick and we had our new windows installed, so Tommy worked from home every day that week.The window installation went well but took...
View ArticleSwimming
We've gotten to go swimming quite a bit this summer and it's been so much fun! We have mostly been going to the Mason pool with Katie and Jude in the evenings. They have a pass with some guest passes...
View ArticleA New Kid
Caleb has spit up/thrown up his whole life. As a newborn, he projectile vomited. As he got older, he stopped spitting up after nursings, but if he cried for more than a few minutes in his bed, he would...
View ArticleAround Our House - July
July was a very low-key month.We celebrated the 4th of July by going to the parade in the morning, and then swimming and BBQ with the Holts in the evening. We decided to skip fireworks so we didn't...
View ArticleDelaware
We spent 3 weeks in Delaware! It was originally only going to be 2 weeks, but Tommy had a business trip to New York scheduled the week after we were supposed to be back, so we just stayed there and he...
View ArticleCaleb's birthday
Caleb turned 1!!! I was pretty sad about him turning one for some reason. He has been so attached to me and I was sad about weaning him for our DC trip. But once it was actually his birthday, I was...
View ArticleMontoya Reunion
Tommy's mom and siblings happened to plan a trip to Delaware to visit Andrew and his family at the same time we were planning to be in Delaware. So Tommy's mom decided to make it more of an official...
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