I pulled one April fools joke. When Kyler pulled down the sun visor in the car, yellow confetti fluttered down and around him. He called me and said "ha ha. very funny, mom". Eric didn't bother to try to use his sun visor after that.
Kacin got new glasses. He graduated out of the kids section, too. Such a handsome lad.
Layla asked me to pull the car over so she could run the rest of the way home. Perry loves doing this, too. So we stop at the corner and they climb out of the car. It is a race home!
Perry pulled a big fat trick on me last night to end our day. A huge refusal to go to bed. Finally, at 9:30pm, an hour and a half after we started the biggest bedtime battle of all time, he consented to sleeping on my bed with me.
About Me
I was 19 the day that Eric and I got married and I had my whole perfect life PLANNED out—a time table, a list of goals, EXPECTATIONS, and dreams. But LIFE gave me something EVEN BETTER than my limited vision and plans: a chance to learn and grow and BECOME by experiencing infertility, foster care, adoption, special needs (autism) parenting, breast cancer, and more. Our lives are often challenging, PAINFUL, and complicated, yet it is no doubt that they are GLORIOUS, wonderful, and exciting, too. Our EXPERIENCES, the ones we DELIBERATELY seek out and the ones we would never have picked but we have to MUDDLE through anyways, SHAPE us. We CHOOSE what that shape will look like in the end by our ATTITUDE and our willingness to EMBRACE the moments of life. For it is the MOMENTS that DEFINE us. I choose to WALK FORWARD in the BRIGHTNESS of hope by noticing those moments, LEARNING as much as I can, SEEKING the good, and TRUSTING in a loving God.
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Brinna sealed to us in the Gilbert temple 2018
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Layla and Perry sealed to us in the Newport Beach Temple Feb. 2014
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Kyler and Kacin were sealed to us for time and all eternity in the Mesa, Arizona Temple in April 2009







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