I’m trying to wean Ila again

It’s not that I hate nursing, because I don’t.  It’s just taking over my entire life.  She wants to nurse all the time and refuses any other fluid.  She prefers it to eating solids too.  I often find that I’m nursing her as often as a newborn and it regularly hampers my ability to fully [...]

Snapshots of life in our new home

I really need to get back to blogging, but I just keep finding myself too tired at the end of the day to want to get started.  So instead of the text heavy things I need to document, I thought I’d just throw up some recent pictures with a sentence or two here or there.
I [...]

Sacrament Meeting Resources

Isaac loves to read our scripture stories books.  Most Sundays he will read a book of scripture stories throughout the entire sacrament meeting.  It’s neat because he retains a lot of what he has read and can recall it in family home evening and other times.  We were having a family home evening lesson on [...]

Snapshots from Ohio

Whenever I have a grapefruit, Nicole comes over and wants her own.  She is also a little obsessed with sodas lately.  They’re a rare treat at home.  She has a sixth sense for locating them.  One day she carried around an unopened can of soda for half a day and when she dropped it, she [...]

Moving and Christmas

As you may have noticed, I’m doing some catch-up posts.  The month of December was so crazy and hectic, that it was hard to justify taking the time to sit down and write.  Here is an overview of our packing/Christmas holiday.
Zach’s new job offered to pay moving expenses in the form of a bonus on [...]

Charlotte’s 5th Birthday

I usually get really excited for my children’s birthdays, but sadly, this move put a damper on everything.  I did my best to make her birthday special.  I took a break from trying to pack and tried to find ways to spend time with her during the day. 
School was cancelled for bad weather, so [...]