This year, we had planned to celebrate Thanksgiving with Gavin's family. The whole family planned on coming, and we planned to stay in Lake Tahoe. Well, all of that happened, but we had to do it early. Gavin's brother Jared, who is in the Navy, is...

This week, Sydney has seemed to be more naughty, hard, emotional, etc... than normal. She has been getting into things (think mascara, all over her face, or the thank you cards I was sending out -- she ripped open the envelopes on a few of them,...

Gavin blessed Dallas yesterday. We were so happy that both Grandpas could be in the circle. Gavin did a great job. I always had regretted not really writing Sydney's blessing down, so this time I took copious notes. Since this is blog is my journal of...

The entire day of Halloween was fun at our house this year. We had both sets of grandparents and Uncle Jacob with us! They came for Dallas' baby blessing the next day. We (Mom, Jacob, Sydney, and I) started the day by going down to the produce stand to...

Last Monday we carved our pumpkins. Sydney got in on the action this time. She was hesitant at first about getting her hands yucky, but she quickly found that it was fun! Gavin's pumpkin design, was as always, more original, and of course he chose the...