Yesterday we celebrated the best boy I know as he turned 10 years old! It’s always very exciting to move to the realm of double digits! Some things that Carter loves right now include: Some things that we love about Carter right now include: We love Carter a million million! He is such a fun […]

Yesterday was a magically celestial day for the Monson family. Our magnificent Portia Eve was baptized and confirmed a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and received the gift of the Holy Ghost. 🤍🤍🤍 It was so special to be there for this ultra-important day in Portia’s life. As I […]

Happy Birthday to our BEAUTIFUL little Bianca! She is truly such a little gem and joy to have in our family that I’m not confident I’ll be able to adequately put it into words. But I’ll try my best. First of all, Bianca just loves. She loves everybody in her life—parents, siblings, grandparents, cousins, aunts […]

Helen celebrated her 6th birthday this past Tuesday, March 12. She had a grand and magnificent vision for her birthday, and she lived up every moment of it! Helen wanted a St. Patrick’s Day themed birthday party this year. I loved that because, since having two birthdays within a week of St. Patrick’s Day, I […]

Birthday season has begun for the Monson family! And today we got to celebrate a super exciting birthday with Portia! Turning 8 is an especially big deal because now Portia can be baptized and receive the gift of the Holy Ghost! She is super excited about making covenants with God, and understands what it means […]

Pictures for this post will be things I made in the year 2023. I’m so excited to share my theme word for 2024! I knew exactly what I wanted my word to be for this year even back in October, and so far I am having a lot of fun with it! My word for […]

I have been so excited to share some of my beautiful experiences from this past year! I looked back at my original post about my “beautify” theme and I had said I wanted to focus my beautifying efforts in three areas: And it seems like that was definitely the correct order to list them in, […]

Up until October had already begun, I had no idea if Josh was going to put anything together for Halloween or not. In years past, he has commenced dreaming/scheming/planning in about July or August; but this year, he just couldn’t come up with an idea that really felt like a winner. And work was busy, […]

There is so much I could say about this trip that Josh and I took, just the two of us! But I fear that if I try to go into much detail I’ll get discouraged by the grandeur of the task and never record anything. So this will mostly be pictures. But just know that […]

We decided to make our vacation the grand finale to our summer break, going to Lake Tahoe the week before school started. The last time we went to Lake Tahoe was in 2018. It was beautiful and so much fun, that time, but it was also so. much. work. Helen was a 5 month old […]