Tonight when we were coming home from Grandma Gibby’s house, we were playing games made up by a 5-year-old. (Audrey said, “Let’s play a game called, ‘Let’s see if you can sing a song that you know’. How you play is, you sing a song that you know.”) When we got to the game called [...]

Last week, we were content with the two cars we had, planning to put all three of our kids in the back of Sarah’s Matrix when the baby was born.    We knew we liked Toyota Siennas in general, since Sarah’s mom has one that we’ve driven around a lot, and they’re the most popular minivan [...]

So we’ve been sleeping in our new house for a little more than a week now, and we are getting settled in. The biggest annoyance left is the fact that we don’t have a fridge in the house.   (Sarah is planning to re-finish the hardwood floors in the front entry, hall and kitchen/dining room, [...]

Moving always means scrounging boxes from wherever you can in order to get all of your stuff from House A to House B.   In our case, we’ve been collecting boxes since before I left Channel 4 — paper boxes, Nexpress cylinder boxes, diaper boxes, etc.   We hauled a lot of stuff down to [...]

So last night, Sarah and I went to the LDS Film Festival in Orem — the first such festival I’d ever been to.   (Yes, I’ve lived in Utah for 90% of my life and never been to a screening at Sundance.)   There were some signs of the pretentious artists who frequent these kinds [...]

I got the chance to laugh at Sarah the other day while we were tossing around names for Baby Brother. (A few weeks ago, we were pretty much settled on Nathan, but we’ve since backed off it.) Our neighbors have a son named Stockton (after Utah Jazz great John Stockton), so Sarah said, “We could [...]

Yesterday I got an email in Spanish through the contact form on my web site. It came from someone calling himself “rICHARD”, listing a very vague email address. It was titled, “lOSER, PERDEDOR”: wHAT ARE YOU DOING PUBLISHING A PERSONAL PAGE ABOUT YOUR LIFE, DO YOU THINK YOURSELF SOMEONE THAT WOULD BE INTERESTING TO ANYONE, [...]

Today in the car with Sarah, Audrey heard the song “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” on the radio. I wasn’t there and didn’t hear exactly what she said, but when she heard the line Please have snow and mistletoe and presents on the tree, she said in effect, “You don’t put presents on the tree. [...]

For the last few weeks, Audrey has been afraid of bugs in general, flies in particular. Every time she’d see one, she’d get agitated and shout at it, “Go ‘way, f’y!” (Her l’s are non-existent at this time. She doesn’t have r’s down yet either.) But a couple of days ago we were in the [...]

Our clothes dryer started taking a really long time to get things dry a couple of weeks ago, so today I finally decided to check out the exterior vent. I was expecting to find a bunch of lint and junk, but I was surprised to find a whole bird’s nest in one four-inch duct. It’s [...]