Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt

 Since moving here, we've always had a neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt. Actually, we started it three Easters ago, then took one year off for Covid, and we were back at it this year.It's a really sweet...
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Tuesday, March 30, 2021

Grateful for His Grace #StartingToday

During the last year, my little children have been my sunshine and the Savior has been like this umbrella, sheltering me from the very worst or at least lightening my load when it felt like the very worst.I...
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Monday, March 29, 2021

Open Book Test - General Conference Review

As we've done in the past, I threw together a little review or open book test for my family to complete this week in preparation for the upcoming General Conference this Saturday and Sunday.The girls...
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Sunday, March 28, 2021

General Conference Accordion Book

General Conference is upon us again!  Here is a sweet little General Conference craft we made during Family Home Evening last week that you could easily replicate.I used this 12 apostles template...
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Spring Tulips and Flower Show Trips

 Spring is here. We have made it!  So, another trip to the Phipps Conservatory was in order!  Here are some pictures from the Spring flower show.  We definitely have to thank the amazing...
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Saturday, March 27, 2021

Relief Society Birthday Cupcake Decorating Class

 There are actually some super-fun things that the pandemic has brought us that we wouldn't have enjoyed otherwise.  One of them happened Tuesday evening when we joined my Mom's ward's Relief...
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Friday, March 26, 2021

Adding Memories to Family Search

 Our Stake Presidency has declared this weekend a Stake Temple and Family History Weekend.  We have about 6 different family history and temple tasks to complete by this weekend.  Here...
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Thursday, March 25, 2021

Young Women Theme Wall

I love how creative my daughters are.  I walked into one of their rooms recently. It was a hot mess in there, let me tell you, but then I looked up and saw this neat wall that Scarlett had created...
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Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Going Home

One of the biggest blessings of our move to Pittsburgh is that I am now so close to my hometown that I can run home to see family at a moment's notice...which is what I did on Friday.Normally, the first...
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Tuesday, March 23, 2021

Easter Bread Recipe

 I've just been feeling to great about getting to get my vaccine last week.  But to top the week off I also got to dye eggs and make Easter bread with my kids.  We made these a few years...
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Monday, March 22, 2021

I Got My Vaccine!

 St. Patrick's Day 2021 was a great "come and get it day" for me--a day when the sun is shining, and it feels like angels are guiding my every step.  And the best step of all was getting my...
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Saturday, March 20, 2021

Welcome Spring!

 It's Spring!  Things are going to start coming alive again.  Spring is so joyful to me...with General Conference, Easter, and the chance to celebrate my son Val's arrival in the world.But...
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Friday, March 19, 2021

Rejoice, the Lord is King!

\It was a rough start to church last Sunday with my three-year old Coy refusing to enter the chapel (without wailing!), but it all got brighter when they announced that we're allowed to sing again as...
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Thursday, March 18, 2021

God Keeps His Promises FHE

 Here is a quick FHE that we did the other week...thanks to this little free printable about Noah's Ark (found here).First we did a little letter/word guessing game (not hang-man) to discover the...
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Wednesday, March 17, 2021

St. Patrick's Day Cupcakes

As far as I can tell, I have no direct Irish ancestors.  I am very, very British though.  But, like most people, I'm game for some St. Patrick's Day fun.Here is the "No Pinch Zone" sign that...
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