Category: Family

Gratitude Journal April 2018

5 minute readHere’s my updated thoughts on a few things that I’m grateful for: Healthy “Munchies” (“Munchies” are how Amanda and I refer to our children. I don’t think anyone else uses that word. It originated from how “munchy” they were as babies and has stuck ever since.) Our 4-year-old and 2-year-old girls are healthy and usually […]

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Great Wolf Lodge Trip 2018

6 minute readThis is just another memory dump from our family trip to great wolf lodge in Washington. I don’t think anyone will really find this interesting besides myself and the kids in a few years. We needed to be at coho ferry terminal for 9, which meant going through victoria traffic. It’s been a long time, […]

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Gratitude Journal March 2018

2 minute readI was reminded today at church about how gratitude is a characteristic of happy people. I’m often also reminded that I should be keeping a journal (this blog is basically that). So I’m hoping to make a monthly post on my “gratitude journal” a habit. Here goes. Grampa Colin’s 80th Birthday My dad just turned […]

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The Music of the Home

< 1 minute readThis is a poem by Ann Madsen, one of my religion professors at BYU. I stumbled upon it while reading the biography of her husband Truman G. Madsen The Music of Home The music of home: a subtle melody hard to improvise while far away. Now as it crescendos surrounding me, sometimes in simple silence […]

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Times I’ve Felt Really Happy

2 minute readAt church I’m now called to team-teach Sunday school to the four year olds. (We’ll see how this goes! But I see they’re mostly really surprisingly good kids, and I’m mostly a big kid, and the other teacher is mature, so we should be fine). Part of the first lesson said to mention times I […]

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