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 far.
4. You [...]

Scott’s parents and siblings decorate a tree each year in honor of his brother, Paul, who died while on active duty in the Air Force.  (You can see previous trees in our Archives.)  All proceeds from the Festival of Trees goes to charity care at Primary Children’s Medical Center in Salt Lake City.  This year [...]

Brent is returning home tomorrow after a year deployment in Iraq.  We are very excited and relieved that he returned safely and I'm sure that he looks forward to being with his family again.  On this Memorial Day our thoughts turn to all those who work to keep us free.  We owe much to all [...]

Our niece Jill (Janice and Phil's daughter) leaves today to begin service as a missionary in the Korea Seoul West Mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  She will spend about 12 weeks in language training before heading to Korea.  This is the same mission that Scott served in from 1979-1981 and [...]

Congratulations to Paul, Michelle's husband, on his retirement from his position of Chief of Police in Bountiful.   He had a 26 year career in law enforcement.  Thanks, Paul, for all you did.  I know that Michelle said she has plenty of things for you to do now, so I don't think that it will be [...]

There is a family in Alpine that does a large Nativity scene each year in memory of one of their family members that died of cancer (donations go to support the Huntsman Cancer Institute).  It is quite a scene with a market, donkeys, horses, sheep, goats, shepherds, wise men and of course, Joseph and Mary and [...]