Teya turns two today!  Since Ammon had to leave this morning to fly back to New York, we celebrated yesterday.  Don’t be fooled by the pink flower wrapping paper — the hit toy for this little girl was the green motorcycle.  Proof that my parents understand how children work:  After all of Teya’s birthday presents were distributed and […]

Each of my parents has a favorite dessert.  Mon père loves applie pie, so Lady has developed some knock-out apple pie recipes over the years.  Lady, on the other hand, loves dark chocolate cake, so mon père has spent the past twenty years perfecting his to-die-for chocolate cake.  And perfect it he has.  His secret formula (which includes […]

First, we went to church, where the youth speaker taught us that there are two teams in this life:  Team Hot and Team Cool, and that you couldn’t be on both at the same time.  (Initially I was disappointed, since I’ve secretly always wanted to be on Team Hot and Cool — then I realized he was talking […]

At long last, and without further trials and tribulations, I arrived in Boise!  Mon pere and Mark met me at the airport in Mark’s open-topped Jeep, which made for a fun and windy ride home.  Boy, was it nice to be back in the land of low humidity! Lady, Heather and Ashley were all still in Rexburg […]