Today I would like to “Pay it Forward” to my friend, Rebekah, who is a heroine to me.  She has 9 children and her last has Trisomy 18 and was not expected to live long.  I’ve visited her at Primary Children’s Medical Center during long hospital stays and brought her and Aaron home from one, [...]

Sunday I went to the coat rack after church and found that my long, black dress coat was gone. I thought, “What the heck?!? Somebody at church stole my coat!” I walked out to the car wondering what to do. Then I said a quick prayer that whoever took it would realize their mistake and [...]

Here’s a set of pictures from the last transfer in Kyle.  Mark is spending the last part of his mission back in San Antonio in the Heritage District.  He spent 6 months there earlier in his mission. Click on a photo to see them larger in a gallery.

We had a great time looking through these!

Brian just opened his mission call and he’s going to……. California Carlsbad Spanish-speaking He goes into the MTC on January 6, 2010. Woo-hoo!

This is slightly outdated, but my friend had the video, so I decided to upload it. For New Year’s Eve my friends and I decided to go to “First Night” in Provo. As a part of the evening, there was a “Star Singing Competition”. Throughout the early hours of the night guests could audition, singing [...]

1. Apparently there’s some sort of time warp going on because we just celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary and Mark will have been out on his mission a year in a couple weeks.  What the?? 2.  I just love a sunny day. 3. 2009 has been a real test for my word of the year, serene, so [...]

1. It’s great to see the sun, but I’m tired of the cold already and this high pressure is causing an inversion in Utah that makes the air quality bad. 2. I feel swamped by my full-time volunteer PTA job, but am trying to work methodically through my list of things to do. 3. I [...]