November 2025

Fall is in the air… and on the calendar! It is a busy, fun time of year when the summer heat is finally subsiding and the events to attend are ramping up. Early November brought the Relief Society Holiday dinner where I had (along with other sisters in the ward) been invited to share my … [Read more…]

October 2025

October was filled with many fun activities. Chandler High Homecoming for Sophia and friends, Ray Ward Fall Festival, building a tap board, the Step-Up concert, and Halloween. Here are some pictures we captured throughout the month. Sophia and her friends decided to dress up and take pictures for the Homecoming dance (although they did not … [Read more…]

September 2025

September was filled with a new volleyball season for Sophia at the YMCA, a Fall choir concert for Chandler High choirs, a quick visit with old friends, and we finished the month out with Audrey and Grace coming into town to let Sophia cash in on her birthday gift, then Fall Break in Utah. Let’s … [Read more…]

Graduation Preparations Have Begun

Sophia attended her first graduation meeting at school last week (sigh). She will be wearing Audrey’s Cap & Gown (Grace also wore Audrey’s for her 2020 “graduation” which consisted of a car parade and a picture in front of the TV in our family room when her name was read- what a time in history … [Read more…]

Teenager(s)

This was December 28, 2019…when we had teenagers (plural). These photos were taken a month exactly, in fact, before our oldest graduated from her teenage years and entered her 20’s. It was a really great, long awaited and planned trip which probably deserves its own post, another time. Last week the realization hit me that … [Read more…]