I've never posted on our family blog before, so I decided it's about time.  I had a pretty interesting experience today and decided it was as good of a story as any, so here I go:
As most of you know, I play the cello and am currently attending BYU.  This semester, I auditioned for the [...]

I have recently read all 9 books in the series by Jan Karon, along with the first title in her new series, The Father Tim Novels.  I have some friends that I share books with and one of them highly recommended this series, while another said they put her to sleep.  So I was curious about [...]

Mark got his mission call today to serve two years as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Texas San Antonio Mission, Spanish Speaking.  He'll enter the Missionary Training Center in Provo, Utah on May 7, 2007.  Mark had four years of Spanish in High School, so he is [...]

The day after taking the pictures of all of our snow, we got dumped on again.  Kind of a pattern this year.  We got around 11-12" of new snow on Sunday (February 3).  Enough that they canceled church and we spent most of the rest of the afternoon helping neighbors get shoveled out.  Brian is [...]

We have had a ton of snow this year.  Certainly more than any winter since we moved here in 2001, and, in talking to others, the most in 15-20 years.  Some say that we haven't had this much since the early 80's when there was a lot of mudslides and flooding in Utah. 
The mountains [...]