It’s finally happened
Jan 20Not too long ago Heidi and Eric announced their launch into a whole new era of cardom, and now we join them…There’s no going back now!
2012, world hasn’t ended yet
Jan 15
Yay we’ve finally posted. This basically includes Christmas and then our trip to Philly, which included a trip to the DC temple and visitors center, a day in New York, our 3-year anniversary, New Years Eve and New Years Day, and the Please Touch Museum. We also loved spending a lot of time relaxing (I finished a book–Alloy of Law, thank you Holly!) and playing games (Dominion and...
Interesting article
Jan 12
I know we haven’t posted in a month, and we do have pictures from the holidays, but frankly that’s low on my priority list right now But I did read this interesting article on carpe diem + parenting. So many comments of people crying because of it. Should I feel bad I didn’t cry? Naw. But I did appreciate the camaraderie. (It’s totally true about the things people say in...
LTF: Life, Thanksgiving, and Finals
Dec 18So, we’ve been crazy busy lately and haven’t posted in a while. But just because we haven’t posted doesn’t mean that exciting things haven’t been happening every day. Natalie’s 8 Month Old Video So the video has some scenes from Natalie’s life now that she’s 8 months old. She’s starting to do all sorts of new things. Here is the table of...
Megabus
Nov 15
It’s nice to have family within relatively close driving distance, even if that means driving by Megabus. Natalie and I took a Megabus trip up to visit my brother’s family in Philly while Jacob stayed home to crank out a giant law paper (amazing how much more effective he is when the wife and child are out of the house…:) ). On the way back a lady sitting behind us was having...
Natalie is growing every day
Nov 13
It’s been a couple of weeks since we posted. We’ve had a good time lately with lots of fun and studying. Tonya and Natalie recently took a trip to Philly on a Megabus and let me stay home and write a ridiculously long paper for lawschool. Phew, glad to have that paper over. And from what I can tell, Tonya and Natalie loved their Philly trip–post on that later. Anyway, here are...
Bustling
Oct 18
So somehow a conversation with Jacob about having a balanced life turned into a conversation about a fat medieval chef in a large medieval kitchen ordering around a lot of bustling cooks preparing lots of food for lots of rich people. Kind of funny story how that came about, but it raised an interesting question: what image does the word ‘bustling’ evoke? Apparently Jacob thinks of...
Balance
Oct 16
I’m reading an interesting book Jacob got for my birthday called Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (the link is to an article that’s an excerpt from it) about a Chinese-Jewish-American family whose mom is extremely fanatical about having her two daughters be successful, in school, music and everything else. While I admire some of the principles she instills in her daughters, I think she...
Feast Upon the Words of Christ
Oct 10
So tonight we had an FHE about the Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ. We invited one of my home teaching families over so we could share the lesson from this month’s special issue of the Ensign which is all about the Book of Mormon. One of my favorite scriptures is 2 Nephi 32:3: … [w]herefore, I said unto you, feast upon the words of Christ; for behold, the words of...
Finally moved in
Sep 17
So, we have finished our arranging and our moving and our hanging up and our wiping down and we think we’re finally settled in enough to take some pictures of our fancy schmancy new place and share them with you. Take a look. In the spirit of naming homes like Pride and Prejudice’s Mr Darcy’s Pemberley and Harry Potter’s the Weasley’s The Burrow, we have dubbed our...
The new place
Sep 11
So we were scheduled to move all our big stuff the Saturday after we got back from Utah. Unfortunately, that was also the day Hurricane Irene was supposed to hit. So at the last minute we changed it to Friday. Our move-in date wasn’t officially until the following Wednesday, so we camped out at our old place and cleaned for a few days. We’ll post more pictures of our new home once we...
Lots of Stuff Has Happened
Sep 11
It’s been awhile since we’ve posted because A) we’ve been busy and out of town, B) we didn’t have internet for a week and a half, and C) we have been moving to a new place for a couple weeks. So a lot has happened and here’s some of it: Fourth of July Cub Scout camp Trip to Philly in July Birthday beach trip Trip to Utah in...
Natalie Laughing Part 2
Aug 08Natalie started laughing when her mom and her grandma in Utah were playing with her.
Brush or Floss first?
Aug 07
This is the great debate between me and Jacob ever since we met: Do you brush or floss first???
True literature
Aug 07
What is “true literature?” That is the controversy we found the other day looking up about the Newberry Medal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newbery_Medal under “controversy” Some people say that books like Newbery Medalists and Pulitzer Prizers turn people off from reading. Why don’t they include things like the Magic Treehouse and Harry Potter on reading lists as...
Too many raisins in my raisin bran!
Jul 23
Life is hard, but it’s also good So when I’m in blog mode, I often think about what my friend Lisa said about why we blog. Mostly Jacob and I just blog to let our families–and also any friends who may be interested as well–know how we’re doing since we’ve moved away (and somehow it’s so much easier to just put in a bunch of pictures in order to do that....
Natalie Laughing
Jul 09This is a video of Natalie’s first laugh. We were fortunate to get it on video the night of the 4th of July. Hope you like it!
Unlikely fireworks
Jul 04
Well, it was raining this evening for the Fourth, so we watched a movie instead of fireworks. But the movie had good fireworks itself This movie is on hulu for free and is so good! We just finished it and it was so good that I had to post about it, which I have never done before. And believe me, I am definitely NOT impressed by movies anymore, so I really mean it that I liked this movie a lot....
