'Tis the season of all my favorite things!

No, not fallen crunchy leaves, or changing colors, or pumpkin everything--although I LOVE all those things.

I mean 4 new episodes of Rebels! Three new episdoes of Ladybug (HOLY CRAP IT'S EVERYTHING I'VE EVER WANTED THE TWO YEAR WAIT WAS SO WORTH IT)! And new Taylor music ( Read more... )

Many things to say.

First, I taught Sunday School today. Due to a ridiculous amount of adults in my singles ward, we have two Gospel Doctrine classes, a Gospel Essentials class, an indexing class, a Family History Class, and an as-needed Temple Prep class. Since everybody needs a calling and there's really only so much to do in a singles ward, I ( Read more... )

So on Wednesday evening the entire Boone family came to visit. And when I say entire Boone family, I mean all 13 of them. Mariel came back from Alaska, Benjamin and Ammon came back/down to college, John and Jesse and Mathis came back from Oregon, and Mother, Father, Nathanael, Jet and Christiana came to celebrate Mathis' first birthday.

Of all the ( Read more... )

Originally I was supposed to go to Idaho on Thursday and enjoy a relaxing weekend with my other family, but then one of the uncles died and the whole family took a 25 hour road trip to Mississippi. I love the Boones, but I don't love them enough to spend that much time in a car on the verge of sickness to attend a function where everybody is crying ( Read more... )

Two stories that are related ( Read more... )

So about a week and a half ago I went to Idaho with Johanna to visit her family (yes, the selfsame family we'd just spent a weekend with down in Arizona). It was our annual trip to Barnes and Noble. Well, it has now become an annual thing. We went last summer and spent a day at B&N and enjoyed it so much that we decided to do it again. Quite a ( Read more... )