Category: Family

Calling all Labor Day travelers 0

Calling all Labor Day travelers

There are only a couple weeks of summer left. In fact, school begins in Henderson, Nev. on Aug. 25. For those of you with end-of-summer travel plans, who book your travel online, we ask...

The stuff Saturday’s are made of 0

The stuff Saturday’s are made of

Today was a good day. We attended to the myriad of things that need to happen each week, all the house chores, and then even took the opportunity to use some coupons to eat...

Happy father-in-law day 0

Happy father-in-law day

Each year on July 30 we celebrate father-in-laws. Did you know today is father-in-law day? Our family is fortunate to have family patriarchs on both sides. That means both Vickey and I have a...

Great Harvest pumpkin chocolate chip bread 1

Great Harvest pumpkin chocolate chip bread

I’ve blogged about this before: our family has a fetish for Great Harvest products. They’re whole grain goodness is just too irresistible. My cousin, Lisa, recently tried a recipe that comes awfully close to...

Happy birthday Tank 1

Happy birthday Tank

Today’s Tank’s sixth birthday. It’s hard to believe he’s middle-aged. We’ve taken him on runs around the neighborhood and to the park to play fetch several times the past few weeks. He spends more...

When Pete met Vickey 3

When Pete met Vickey

Back in 1997 when I moved to Orem, Utah and purchased a condo I ended up in Vickey’s singles ward. Call it coincidence, fate or stupid luck, that’s how Vickey and I met —...

Tank’s clean BILL of health 0

Tank’s clean BILL of health

Tank is six years old next week on Tuesday. We have received several postcards lately asking us to come in to the vet’s for some updated immunizations. When I took him there Monday, the...

Another chapter closes 1

Another chapter closes

We had a very fun birthday week with Dominic. The friends and family that came over Monday night for cake and ice cream and the horseback riding Thursday night were both very memorable and...

Birthday horse ride 0

Birthday horse ride

For months Dominic has been asking to ride a horse for his birthday. It was pretty much the theme for his gifts this year which included cowboy boots and shirt, toy horses and stables....

Happy birthday Dominic 0

Happy birthday Dominic

This morning we all got up and ready for the day while Dominic slept (he’s a late sleeper). Once we woke him up, we sang happy birthday and took him downstairs where a dozen...