Autumnal Recollections... of our own insanity

The Doctor is remarkable. (And so I remark...)

He decided to run another marathon this year. This time in St. George, Utah.

The timing was tricky, though, because it happened to be the weekend BEFORE our kids had a "Fall Break" from school. It also happened to be at the same time as the LDS temple open-house in Star Valley, Wyoming. 

SO- I hatched a daring plan (facilitated by $35 one-way flights from Southwest Airlines.)

It looked like this:

Green represents Me

Red represents my kids

Blue represents my husby

And somehow (with tons of help from BOTH sides of the family) we pulled it off!

Life As We Know It

I posted about our Christmas. (Pictures are worth a thousand words, right?)
But the rest of December- the regular life and family craziness- effortlessly glided into January.
I want to remember it, so I'm sharing with you.

We'll begin with Pencil.
Because with this monkey there are always a zillion tell-able tales.
He asked for cinnamon toast for breakfast almost every day one week. This is how he ate it:

General Conference

This weekend was General Conference. Twice a year, the leaders of our church gather together to spend two days sharing messages of the Gospel. Messages of hope and peace, of encouragement and of gentle reminders to be better. I was prepared with questions, and I truly felt that I received answers. It was a special experience this time. I loved being able to listen and ponder and feel like there is a purpose in the pressing forward.

There is a General Conference Book Club at 'Diapers and Divinity' that posted these questions. Here are my answers.

Recipe for the Giggles at Stake Conference

For Giggles at Stake Conference you will need:

1 rowdy 18 month old (works best if he is not good at drinking out of a cup by himself)

1 bottle of water (backwashy and partly gargled earlier in the meeting)

1 mom

1 dad

1 unknown teen