We bought new furniture that came in some great huge boxes. A big box is every child’s dream toy. Our boys were thrilled and so yesterday they got to start “designing” their “spy houses.” A door, a window, the essential peek hole so they can spy on each other …

Well, it turns out we didn’t as many pictures as I had thought, but I’ve uploaded them and you can see what we did take up at the Wright Family Cabin:

We spent four days at the Wright family cabin in the Blue Mountains of Oregon.  The trail …

Just a quick note to let everybody know that we are home! After Julie’s wedding we headed up to the Wright family cabin. Nolan planned this trip with us a long time ago and we were excited to spend some time up in the mountains. All together we were …

We have had a great time here in Kennewick for Julie’s wedding. It was wonderful and we are very happy for them. I think I’ll let Ily write up her more detailed and romantic version of things when she gets a chance. I mainly wanted to point out …

The office is coming together again. Last night Ily and I put together the first new desk and system control has moved back out of our bedroom. Ily, of all the most sound sleepers there are, couldn’t sleep when the computer was on at night in our room. I …

Well, since I know you all check the website daily, hourly, every minute even, you might have noticed a lack of availability this afternoon. While we are “remodeling” our office (ie painting) we have moved the computer that acts as our server upstairs to our bedroom where it is temporarily …

The boys have been cranky and refusing to stop watching tv to even go to the park. They have been little stinkers this summer break. I got so annoyed by it that I did something drastic, I declared no TV week. I figured that if they didn’t have tv …

We had the funnest 4th of July as a family since the epic slip-n-slide adventure year when my idea to make a slip-n-slide ended with Grandpa Doug breaking a few ribs. Still feel a bit bad about that, but it sure was a ton of fun!

Anyhow, this year all …

We had the rare treat of having Greg and Mindy Henry, some old neighbors of ours from Wymount (married student housing at BYU), as guests this last weekend. Our first children were born a month apart and they played together often. My favorite memory of Isaac and Janae Henry playing …

Somehow we already reached July 1st. I still feel like it should be May! Time is flying quickly.

Isaac finished Kindergarten and is now officially a 1st grader. He is also now a troublemaker at church because a new boy moved in who Isaac adores and they giggle and talk …