• New Year’s Eve!!!!!

    We had a very low-key New Year’s Eve this year. During the day we spent some family time together and got a couple of pizza’s from Little Caesars for lunch and then used…

  • Get a Haircut Hippie! :P

    Jared was getting ready and I noticed how long his hair has gotten!!! I told him he needed to get a haircut so people wouldn’t mistake him for a hippie…..or a Chia Pet!…

  • Christmas Eve 2013

    Every year we go to Grandma and Grandpa Morrison’s for Christmas Eve. Before we open gifts all the grandkids that want to or, have prepared a musical number, give us a little talent…

  • Mesa Temple Christmas Lights

    We visited the Mesa Temple Christmas Lights for F.H.E. this week. They had a lot of new displays that were beautiful. I wish I had taken pictures of everything. Sometimes it’s nice not…

  • Birthday Love..

    Jared wrote me this beautiful tribute today. He’s not much for words so when these moments come I want to document them! 🙂 “My wife, Vanessa, doesn’t like when her birthday falls on the…

  • Halle Heart Center

    Jared went with Eli and his class to the Halle Heart Center in Tempe. Visitors to the museum find out how the heart works, alone and with other parts of the body, as…

  • Urgent Care & The Emergency Room

     Last Sunday Jared started getting a sore throat and Monday he had signs of the stomach flu. By Tuesday things got progressively worse and by Wednesday he become so dehydrated he had lost…

  • Unexpected

    Jared was laid off today….He’s worked at the law-firm for 12 years. Today’s news came very unexpectedly. We are still in a bit of a whirlwind right now and trying to digest what…

  • Horton Springs

     Walker’s scout troop had a family hike on Saturday. It was up in Payson right near Kohl’s Ranch. They hiked up to Horton Springs. Jared took Walker, Eli and our nephew Dylan.  Unfortunately…

  • All That Jazz!

    Eli started 5th grade which means he gets to start band! Jared and I were band nerds and so this is near and dear to our hearts. 😛 What makes it even sweeter…