it's what makes me...me

As I mentioned before, Little Lincoln Christian Barney was blessed this past week by his father, Christian. They had a lovely luncheon after...

We just returned from a fabulous, and very action-packed, vacation to Utah. We were gone about 10 days (two of which were mostly traveling)....

Last night, I couldn't sleep. My heart was heavy. I felt empty. Lonely. Sad. And, this morning, when I woke up, I felt the same...except...

to a special little boy. My nephew, Lincoln Christian Barney, was blessed by his father this last Sunday. It was a very special blessing, an...

really have nothing in common, other than the fact that the bulk of our day was spent at these two places. I was really grateful for the opp...

Just thought I'd share a few of my grimy girl at dinner tonight. We let her have at it with her spaghetti; and boy let me tell you, she ...

Seriously, this girl keeps me laughing on a daily basis. She's been doing this new trick lately where she hides her pacifier in our shoe...

We saw Norah Jones in concert last night. Very different from the Goo Goo Dolls, of last week...in fact, if I were to make a comparison, I...

Today I'm grateful for these men, who have each played a special fatherly role in my life. In particular, my dad, a father of seven...wh...

grandma Judy! At UVSC, John was a member of a non-profit organization- The Cancer Crusaders, whose primary emphasis was raising skin cancer ...

Last night John and I had the rare opportunity of going out...just the two of us. (Ruby hung out with Grandpa Jerry and Cheryl.) We saw the ...

we're moving back to Utah! I'm not kidding when I say that not two minutes after publishing my last post, I went into the kitchen, a...

So no, they weren't crawling all over my face, but they were crawling in my house. That's right, John found two more scorpions withi...

just thought this was funny... left: me (2 years) right: Ruby (1 year)

For the past month or so, Ruby has been mimicking (or at least attempting to mimic) everything we do and say. I think her favorite thing to ...

So I get this call last night from the sister missionaries, asking if I'd be willing to help them out for a few hours this morning. So I...

no more birthday stuff after this. But, I just really wanted to post a few more clips of Saturday. The first one is of Ruby in the pool at h...

thought it might be fun to post some video clips of Ruby relishing her cake... just minutes later...

a few pictures from the big day... Here's my little angel in her birthday dress that her daddy and I picked out for her before she was e...

When I woke up this morning, my heart was filled to overflowing with gratitude for the special gift Heavenly Father blessed us with just one...