Month: June 2011

I may be stoned for saying this, but … I don’t really like s’mores.  Even camping.  They don’t taste nearly good enough for the mess. This isn’t new.  Even as a kid I wasn’t big on them.  I do, however, enjoy roasting marshmallows – especially if someone else will eat them after I start them […]

Tommy is walking.  I am still trying to catch a good picture of it though.  He walks with both arms up and hands spread … waddle, waddle, waddle, plop. It is so fun to watch him get more and more brave each day.  Sunday night he was so busy practicing his walking in his crib […]

Poppy came along for our second field trip of the summer … and Tommy stayed home with Grandmama.  Our real estate agent rented out the local pool and invited all of his clients to come for a BBQ and a swim. It was almost the perfect pool party … there were very few people there […]

In an effort to force us out of the house a few times each week (we have a tendency to be home-bodies), I set up a few mandatory activities each week this summer.  Mandatory meaning I’ll kick myself if I let them slide and the kids know to expect them therefore pushing me to do […]

Last week we had a family lesson on the Plan of Salvation (if you don’t know what that is, ask a Mormon friend or go here).  We got to the part about how after the final judgement day there are different kingdoms to which people are assigned and that we were striving for our whole […]