Category Archives: Happy Things

This blog is subtitled “All the things that make me giggle…” These are those things.

She’s not a horror story

17 November 2014, 12:07 pm by Giggles

Categories: Family, Happy Things, Musings

Oh the pain! The anguish! The humanity!! You think you’re miserable when you’re pregnant? Just you wait. You’ll be doubly so in labor and be cursing the heavens and wanting to die during the actual delivery. … The birth of our daughter was not a horror story. And I refuse to tell it as such. Keep reading →

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Blessed

13 November 2014, 1:57 pm by Giggles

Categories: Family, Happy Things, Relationships

Here are some of the not-too-sappy and public-appropriate reasons why I am blessed to be married to Brett, in no particular order. Keep reading →

5 Shared thoughts

Wedding memories

12 November 2014, 9:02 pm by Giggles

Categories: Family, Happy Things

This weekend we celebrate our fifth wedding anniversary. … I remember what it was like to be single. But I can’t imagine being anywhere else but here now. Keep reading →

6 Shared thoughts

First memories

5 November 2014, 8:00 pm by Giggles

Categories: Family, Happy Things, Remembers

What is your first memory? How far back can you remember? And what kind of memory is it? As we watch Iddo it’s clear she remembers things from one day to the next. What will her first memory be? Keep reading →

6 Shared thoughts

For some must push…

28 July 2014, 4:30 pm by Giggles

Categories: Exercise, Family, Happy Things

I grew up running with my dad, starting long before I could run myself. Shortly after I turned 2 I was in the newspaper for the first time, although indirectly. … Thirty-two years later I couldn’t have been more proud to see this in the digital edition of the Deseret News … Keep reading →

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A blessing on the food

13 March 2014, 2:24 pm by Giggles

Categories: Food, Gospel, Happy Things

I started to wonder exactly why I was asking a blessing for the food. Just what kind of blessings does a plate of tacos I’m about to consume need? … This time I knew what blessings our food needed. Keep reading →

5 Shared thoughts