Looking back with Lot's Wife

Cole and I went shopping for his birthday last week.  It was loads of fun but  I didn't really process the fact that I'll need to take everyone else for a birthday trip from now on. This is the first time I've ever seen someone lick their nugget sauce packet completely clean after the nuggets were gone. Yum, yum honey mustard! This is a picture of Cole's new red hat blowing out six birthday candles. The party was at Ben and Angie's new house which they managed to move in on Ben's birthday, July 12th. Over twenty people from their old ward helped them move.  They must have been really glad to see them off.  This "fit for a king" media center was Ben's high point but the rounded arches over the doors, the chair rail, and the thousand other details are amazing too.  Is this the cutest picture ever?  Wendall's band played at a "battle of the bands" at the Brown Bros. Performing Arts Center in Spanish Fork las...

So we’re going on vacation. Heck, this must be like our third vacation…in the thirty years we’ve been married. No, we don’t seem to vacate a lot, but now we’re going to Mexico to spend a week in a beautiful house on the beach that my sister owns. We’re going to shop, eat, talk swim, and relax. I’m going to do that. He’s probably going to read all the church manuals and get months ahead in Sunday School. He will produce a succession of deep sighs as we wander through cute stores that sell pottery and glassware and ceramic animals painted bright colors. He’ll like wandering along the beach for about a half hour, and then he’ll start wondering if we’re there yet. Do you ever wonder what would happen if you could change your spouse into exactly what you wanted him to be? It would have to be at least five different guys. I’d want a guy who was friendly, unless he was too social and spent every night with his buddies watching sports. I’d also want that guy who, when I sa...