Author: Cindy

I enjoy Easter.  For some reason it is easier for me to focus on the real meaning of Easter than it is to focus on the real meaning of Christmas.  Perhaps it is because the world around us isn’t quite so crazy about Easter stuff.  I’m not sure.    This year Easter wasn’t nearly as […]

Kevin and I made the effort and flew to Washington for Grandma Evelyn’s funeral.  We were able to spend a couple of days pretty much by ourselves with Grandpa Dick and it was an incredibly good time.  We laughed and listened to his stories and ate his jelly beans.  Even though we didn’t get a […]

A day late and a dollar short, but better late than never and a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush and some other trite phrase … Happy Easter! (Yes, I blinded them all for this picture.  We were running late for church and stopping them on the front steps was the […]

The snow is all gone and we had a week of really nice weather.  (And then a week of cold and more snow that melted right away – but it is spring in Utah after all.) The three younger boys and I stopped at the park one day while we waited for Ricky to finish […]

This last week, the boys’ Great-Grandma Evelyn Pendleton passed away.  We’ve spent a lot of time over the years working with the boys to understand who Grandma Evelyn and Grandpa Dick are.  The younger ones don’t fully comprehend her passing away, but Ricky cried when we told him. Maybe it isn’t that they don’t comprehend, […]