Family History

Sometimes it may seem on the outside that family history and homeschool/learning are different categories of interest for me. But I have found that they are actually very tied together. As I have been doing more family history and learning more about my ancestors, especially over the past 15 months or so, I have found...Read More

Jane. Jane is a name that was at the top of our baby names list when I was pregnant with each of our last 3 children. But even though we loved the name, it never made the final cut because we like to name our kids after family members or close friends and we didn’t...Read More

This is what I wrote in my journal on March 9, 2010… Last night, I was reading some of my journal entries from when I was 14. They are pretty hilarious. I was so crazy back then. I am glad that I wrote pretty regularly. I think that sometimes we disregard record keeping and think...Read More

Yesterday was Easter. Easter is a holiday that I have usually not given the attention that it deserves. I usually do something, but often it’s kind of last minute and not planned out very well. Well this year I was determined to do better. I mean, I give Christmas a ton of attention. And yes, Christmas...Read More

August 29th was the 10 year anniversary of when we got engaged. To celebrate, we went to the place where Jershon proposed – which is a fountain on BYU campus. We spent a lot of time at this spot when we were dating. A lot of hours, sitting on that bench, talking, and maybe some...Read More

This morning we got to do something really neat. We got to see the real, original, 174 year old journal of one of my pioneer ancestors, Charles Alfred Harper. He is my great-great-great grandfather. He is the ancestor that I picked for Landon to represent during our pioneer unit because Landon’s middle name is Harper....Read More