Family life in rural Utah.
27
Feb
After the NFL season comes to a close and the ice fishing slows because of melting ice, I get interested in NCAA basketball for a few weeks. I usually setup a Yahoo! group and invite all my friends to join my Tournament Pick’em group and create a bracket. There are no prizes or money to […]
20
Feb
Jolynn’s Mother has been living in a kitchen-less house for the last few months as they are remodeling her old kitchen. The project was quite extensive as Dan had to remove an entire wall and place a new glue-lam beam in order to open the dining room into the kitchen. Dan has since re-tiled the […]
20
Feb
Chris Colt has been leading the varsity scouts on this fun service project. They have been building a deluxe chicken house for our neighbor Joe. The boys had some really cool ideas and learned a lot about planning and building woodworking projects. It took them nearly a month to build working on it on activity […]
15
Feb
This week our good friend Bill Anderson took me and Hannah ice fishing to Piute Reservoir, John Jacks came too. The trout were very fat and Hannah was the first one to catch a fish. She had just dropped her jig down the hole and let it hit the bottom when there was a good […]
15
Feb
Alyssa had a busy weekend this past week with three of her friends celebrating birthdays. The first was a makeover sleepover on friday night at her friend Brooklyn’s house. She had a wonderful time doing girly things and they all got press-on nails as part of the party. The next day she went to her […]
15
Feb
This past few weeks we have been working with some of my young men on finishing their eagle projects. They had a super scoutmaster when they were 12-13 in Rex Friant and nearly all of them are only a merit badge or two away from getting their eagle scout award. Trevor Magleby was under the […]