The Mother of Geese

He really treats us so great and is so patient when it seems like his birthday is mostly passed over! Poor guy!

Our sweet Mariko included our family in her rehearsal dinner before the big day. It also happened to be Brad's birthday so we were able to have a special dinner out on the town for a double celebration!

After 18 years Mr. Danielson still knows how to woo a girl!

You know the girl loves her sport and is committed when she gets a text to bring a shovel so she can dig out the field for practice!

"The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache" Marjorie Pay Hinckley Sometimes when we are running a little late and if we feel like we haven't had a chance to really connect in a while we like to take a drive and have canyon church. Canyon Church is basically the best and we love to drive around and look at nature and maybe listen to a conference talk or two. This picture shows a few attempts on selfie lake trying to get a decent picture of my sweet family.

Brad has been hard at work giving up his Saturdays on this big basement effort. We needed to put up the dry wall so he can hang the shelves. Also I feel like I need to document the fact that Brad is still hanging on to his same coveralls from 16 years ago.

Max has been having some trouble with his school work and wasn't feeling very motivated. I decided it was time to go and discuss what I could do to help support him on my end. He texted me asking me where I was and I sent him this picture. He was not happy when he recognized the surroundings and realized I was going to be getting involved.

Lately the girls and I have been going through as many chic flicks on Netflix as we can. It has been so fun to watch them develop and get all the feels by watching romantic comedies. We decided to make it even more complete by adding mud masks. Apologies for the super serious faces--we were frozen and not quite ready to rinse yet. I love this stage my girls are in because they can totally hang out and love to watch movies.

One of the major projects of 2017 has been to get our clutter under control and to make the basement a place the kids would actually want to be hanging around. We want the kids to have a place where they can go hang out with their friends and be downstairs. Grandma Wilma gave us some pieces from Container Store to help with this effort. Here is the before and I am not even afraid or ashamed of it. (Well maybe a little ashamed, I mean, geez!)

For Amelia's birthday she has been wanting to go see her favorite YouTubers at CVX live. She picked Abbie to go with her and they had a great time especially with her VIP passes to visit Studio C. We love Studio C around these parts!

For Amelia's tenth birthday we celebrated in a BIG way! We rented a limo and took her friends to go Ice Blocking then to Cravings to get cupcakes. She really has the best little group of friends and they sure had a blast!