How could I forget to mention you!!! You were (practically) the HIGH POINT of my trip.  (But strangely, the low point for Doug.) My two hour...

I've never been one to reinvent the wheel or duplicate effort.  (Read: I'm lazy.)  So now I'd like to refer you to my friend Dia...

It's hard being as attractive as we all are. It's really a burden. Here we are visiting some ( un- impressive) ancient sacred ruin...

Based on the pictures, we did lots of stuff this day... But this is really all I remember:

"Oh silly me! I got knocked down by a wave!" *giggle giggle* "Hey wait! Now I'm being dragged out to sea! Doug...? An...

Yesterday was Sunday. We got up and went to church as usual. We came home and had lunch as usual. Then Doug and I did something UNusual. We ...

Two weeks ago... Poor poor poor third child. Due to the fact that he had a horrible head cold, as did his brothers, his original party go...

I stood in the front yard sprinkling grass seed on all the bare spots in the lawn and it occured to me: I'm trying to grow grass in Nor...

Never, never, ever ever in my entire life time full of Sunday's have I ever gotten so many compliments during a single church visit.  Me...

I would like to publicly announce that my mom is in fact  better than your mom!   Sorry, but it's true.   Deal with it. Here are some...

Ever heard that expression?   Well, it's very fitting in this situation. My mom and her new husband John just got their mission call. T...

I've been trying to write about our day trip to Hirosaki for a few days now, but when you have approximately 20,326,483 pictures of an e...

I love Newsweek .  I disagree with it's slant and politics 96.7% of the time, but I still love it.  Can't help myself.  I regularly ...

***Northern Japan is in BLOOM!  See Doug's blog for the very first pictures!*** When? April 4th Where? Edgren Hig...

"Max's Dresser" Believe it or not, this photo has NOT been staged or re-touched!!!  This is really what Max's dresser look...

...but only three of you are getting free jewelry...! I wrote down all of your entries, assigned them numbers, then used random.org to sele...