"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." -- Ferris Bueller

Wow!  Life has been a whirlwind at our house lately.  (And the house and yard look it.)  My Swimmer moved out on her own in July.  She will graduate from high school at the beginning of June.


My Princess left to serve an LDS mission in the Arizona Pheonix mission in September.  She has served in Surprise and Glendale and is currently serving in the Prescott area.  She says it is beautiful there and is absolutely loving it!  We got to Skype with her last night for Mother's Day!  She sounds like she is having the time of her life.  Man, I miss this girl!








My Scholar returned from an LDS mission in the California San Fernando mission in December. He went back to college at BYU a few weeks later and just finished his second semester there.  He just got married this past weekend to a wonderful, beautiful, brilliant, talented, and amazing woman.  I am ecstatic to have her join our family.  They will continue their education at BYU and live happily ever after, of course.




 My Little Warrior (who is fifteen and a half now and wants me to drop the "little" off his moniker) is nearly as tall as I am. He has grown quite good-looking and is generally surrounded by girls.  I'm not really all that fond of this new development.  He is still always up for an adventure and loves anything that looks remotely dangerous to his mother.  I've been unsuccessfully trying to add some short videos of a couple of his adventures here, but I give up for now.

We have recently added a twenty-month-old niece to our household.  She is full of energy and really keeps me running.  (I had forgotten how busy little children make you feel.)  I can't post any pictures of her as she is in foster care at this time and that is against the rules, but she is a little doll.  It's fun to watch her growing and discovering new things all the time.  We don't know how long she will be a part of our family, but we will just keep enjoying her giggles and smiles and enduring those nearly-two-year-old tantrums while we have her.

The Man of My Dreams was released from his calling as the bishop in our LDS ward a little over a year ago and is currently loving being the Scoutmaster of our Boy Scout Troop.  I crocheted these beards for them to wear at the Klondike Derby in January.

In the past 16 months we have had more than 12 death's in our family:  my father-in-law, both of my grandparents on my father's side, two nephews, an aunt, two uncles, a great aunt, and several other extended family members.  All of them are very missed and each one touched my life for good.

My Little Miss M has finished her nap, so my computer time is up.  Don't forget to stop and look around once in a while.