Raising Blessings

We got the house we are moving into inspected, we used Watch Dogs Home Inspectors. I would recommend this home inspection company, the inspector was very thorough telling us everything that needed to be repaired, maintained and even made us aware of things that we may want to change. We were also emailed a detailed report of [...]

Today my husband started a second summer job working in an Organic Chemistry lab at BYU. Last week he emailed Biology and Chemistry professors if he could volunteer in a lab (so he could get to know the professors before starting grad school). One professor said that he could really use his help and told [...]

During the 1940′s and 50′s the Canadian government decided to remove the children of the First Nations (Indians) from their homes and put the children into residential schools. Many of these children were abused and regretted the fact that they were removed from their homes. Today Prime Minister Stepen Harper (Conservative Party) officially apologized    on behalf of the [...]

When we first sat down with our realtor he asked us to describe our dream house. I laughed and explained that I wasn’t looking for a dream house yet! If I was explaining my dream house it would be something like this 7 bedroom house from the Hilton Head rentals website: I just wanted something affordable that we [...]

Over the last 3.5 years my husband and I have moved 7 times and each time we have gotten rid of a bunch of junk. Which is good because I really don’t like clutter. While looking for Sariah and Rebekah’s baby books a few days ago I ran into a box of old textbooks from [...]

On Monday we left our kids with a babysitter and set out on our adventure of our first day of house hunting with our realtor and we saw a couple that we liked. One was a condo and with the additional HOA fees it would be about $200 more a month than our limit but [...]

A Boston Herald article jokes that “fees for using airplane restrooms may be around the corner”.  However airlines raising their fees and cutting flights are no laughing matter. American Airlines is now charging $15 for each passangers first piece of luggage. For a family of 4 with 2 pieces of luggage each would be an extra $120 [...]

While at the Provo library today my husband and I signed up for the adult summer reading and also signed our daughters up for the children summer reading program. My husband seemed very excited about the program, he loves to read history books. I am excited about the program as well because now I will [...]