Off to Provo We Go!

Our friends the Garcia family from Vienna came to Utah to take their son Ian to the Missionary Training Center in Provo. We don’t often get to see friends from Vienna so we packed up the kids and drove up to Provo. It was...

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Kids in the Fall Leaves

There are quite a few pictures in this post because I think my kids are so cute when they play in the leaves. We have some huge trees and they went from being full of leaves to being bare with the ground covered in about two...

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The November Edition of What We Do

We spent some time making homemade peppermint patties, peanut butter cups, and almond joys. Surprisingly, the kids all liked the peppermint patties the best. We got a lot of chocolate everywhere, but the kids enjoyed it. We are...

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Marion Turns 3!

Marion turned three at the beginning of this month. She was born on Marie Antoinette’s birthday. Our little Viennese princess. She wanted to help me make the cake for her birthday. Marion loves to help me cook and is...

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Halloween

Here is Elora with our cute little kittens. She likes to take them into the yard so they can enjoy the sunshine. James loves cats. He makes cute little noises at them, but he is not always nice, so we were trying to let...

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Halloween Spooktacular

Since it is almost Thanksgiving, I better hurry and post about Halloween! The town of Orderville has a great event called the Halloween Spooktacular the weekend before Halloween. It starts with a little parade which Marion and...

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Virtue Kids

Chris does some product design work for his company (or a lot of product design work…) so we always have random collections of paintball products around the house. Here is a little glimpse into dinner at the Williams’...

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MaryAnne Comes to Visit!

  Last month our friend MaryAnne came to visit us! She lives in Vienna but came out to tour western USA for a month and we are so glad that she could stop by our place. We went for a short hike near our house and the kids...

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More October Fun!

    We had General Conference in October, when we get to listen to the prophet and other church leaders give talks on various topics. I love conference, it is inspiring and a great time to reflect and try to become a...

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