…at today’s well baby appointment: 50th percentile in weight (thanks chunky thighs!). 90th percentile in height. Holy Moly.

You turn four months old today. It already is hard for me to remember what life was like before you came to us- did we really get to blissfully sleep 9 straight hours per night if we wanted? You slept last night for 13 hours without waking and although it was a little scary for [...]

My darling brother, Joshua, is a media arts student (super rad documentary film maker) at BYU. He’s been youtube challenged in good ol’ Provo because he lives in campus housing, and until today, youtube was blocked by BYU. So, in honor of the newly formed friendship between video sharing site and conservative LDS college, I [...]

It was such a beautiful wedding. Things that I’ll always remember: How beautiful Julia looked in her wedding dress, especially in the blindindly white backdrop of the temple. How calm and practical Julia was about getting beautified. We got mani-pedi’s the day before almost as an afterthought. Minutes before she was still deciding which necklace [...]

Hope your day is filled with all of those things that you love. Especially sleep and pizza.

This just makes me so happy!

It’s the largest 3 on 3 basketball tournament in the world, and my family has played for 12 years. To say that we play may be misleading. We gather, wear matching shirts, lose a few games with shots that don’t touch the rim, and passes that hit spectators, then we wander around downtown Spokane and [...]

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up. Charles Langbridge Morgan Change is often hard on me. It’s not that I [...]

There’s some serious wedding preparations going on in this house. It’s exactly where I want to be. I have so much to share, but these snippets will have to suffice for now, as I am enjoying my time with family and relishing my last few days with Miss Julia Hawker. xxoxox elle