• Flashback to 2011

    Flashback: Eli 8 and Alayna 4 years old.  Driving kids to school and Eli is staring at Alayna. She tuns to him and asks,”what?” Eli relies,”I’m just looking at you cuz you are…

  • Ward Campout- 2017

    Our annual Ward Campout was over the weekend. Alayna never got to go camping with Jared over the summer so there was NO WAY she was going to miss out on the ward…

  • Walker’s Homecoming Reply

    Walker asked a girl from his Lit and Seminary class to Homecoming last week. We found this idea on Pinterest and modified it.  He didn’t know where she lived so he just took…

  • Rockin’ Through the Ages

    Alayna’s school had a fun event on Friday night called “Rockin Through the Ages”. We scrounged up some things from her closet and gave her a totally rad side pony and she was…

  • Volleyball- Team “Ice”

    Alayna started volleyball back up! She’s on team Ice now- in the blue shirts.  She has grown so much in her game. She’s looser, moving around the court, volleying the ball to teammates,…

  • Mesquite HS Homecoming Game

    Eli is a ladies man! 😛 All of his best friends are girls. I’m not complaining. It will benefit him when he gets married one day to have all this experience on how…

  • She’s a Beauty!

    Today is picture day for this girl. Last night she asked me if I would curl her hair for the occasion. I of course was pleased as punch she asked to me to!…

  • Date Night Selfie

    It’s pretty rare that Jared and I get the chance to go out with friends for a date night. But we had some friends ask us to go out for a double date…

  • Refrigerator Pickles

    I recently had several pounds of cucumbers stashed in the fridge. They needed to get eaten and fast. Jared has a slight obsession and goal in life to make his own pickles.  He…